Families

All ages will delight in learning about flora, fauna, and tales of San Francisco through masterful storytelling from your local National Park Service Ranger.

Help study California's only freshwater turtle.

All ages will delight in learning about flora, fauna, and tales of San Francisco through masterful storytelling from your local National Park Service Ranger.

Hike through Muir Woods after dark! Reservations required.

Stroll through an old-growth redwood forest, hear tall tales, soar in the sounds and smells, and hear the historical and ecological story of Muir Woods.

Entrance fee to Muir Woods is free only on April 15-16 and April 22-23 and not the entire week of National Park Week.

Advances in recent decades have allowed amateur astronomers to produce deep space and planetary pictures that rival those taken by professional observatories. This presentation will provide an overview of off-the-shelf instruments and methods anyone, with perseverance and patience, can use to take amazing astronomical images.

This restored Cold War anti-aircraft missile site has intriguing stories to tell.

Battery Townsley, at Fort Cronkhite, was San Francisco's most extensive--and most secret--World War II military fortification. Come visit and explore this labyrinthine battery.

See and hear Fort Point in come to life with music, marching, and the colorful uniforms of Civil War soldiers.