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National Food Changes Have Roots in Bay Area

With the help of the Institute at the Golden Gate’s Food for the Parks program, the National Park Service has announced new standards for healthy and sustainable food options at parks across the country. Get a taste of this important change—here at Golden Gate!

Student-Made Commercial Mixes Spoken Word, Park Volunteer Programs

Three students from Ex’pression College lent their talent this semester to produce a commercial, aimed at youth, for the park’s volunteer programs. We think they deserve an “A”—and two thumbs up! Watch their awesome work; we think you’ll agree.

Trails Forever
Climate Change and Our Shifting Sense of Place

Through BioBlitz, you’ll help illuminate biodiversity in the parks. Through this Institute at the Golden Gate event, you’ll understand why it is so important to our community. On March 13, 2014, engage with experts from UC-Berkeley, Free Range Studios, and Green for All.

Parks: A “Home” for Homeless Youth

November is National Homeless Youth Awareness Month. Here in the Golden Gate National Parks, Crissy Field Center provides programs for young people struggling with homelessness. Through these experiences, children and youth get much more than just a walk in the park.

Ranger Michele Gee experiences the Portal
Portal at Crissy Field to Whisk Visitors to Mexico, Iraq, India, and Other Locales

Through the magic of immersive audiovisual technology, Shared_Studios’ Portals bring together people from around the world in real-time, life-size, face-to-face conversations. In Summer 2017, step inside the Portal at Crissy East Beach—and make an unforgettable connection.

Bruce Fowler's Future ID is on display with others at Alcatraz through October.
Q&A: How a 'Future ID' helps Bruce Fowler envision a life after prison

Bruce Fowler is currently incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. Through the San Quentin Arts in Corrections program, he participated in the Art in the Parks installation Future IDs at Alcatraz. Fowler’s artwork, depicting a sailboat and his captain’s license, is on display along with other IDs in the New Industries Building at Alcatraz through October. 

Volunteers remove grasses at Black Point Historic Gardens.
Tips for winter gardening

Prep the parks (and your garden) for next spring!

Man holding fishing net with juvenile coho salmon in it. He's about to hand it over to a research to re-release it in Redwood Creek.
Coho salmon: [Co]ming [ho]me to Redwood Creek

For coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), the connection between Redwood Creek and the Pacific Ocean is a matter of life or death.