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Flat easy trails loop through the groves at Muir Woods National Monument.
TERMS OF USE

Welcome to www.parksconservancy.org, a website of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (the “Conservancy,” “we,” or “us”). This page explains the terms by which you may use our website (the “Site”).

The Lands End Lookout is a gathering place for the thousands of visitors and locals that flock to this site each year
Bayview Trailhead

The Bayview trailhead is located at the Bayview YMCA (1601 Lane Street, San Francisco, CA 94124). It is one of three community trailheads in San Francisco, created out of a partnership with the YMCA.

Indirect Cost Rate Acceptance Policy

The Parks Conservancy maintains a policy that limits indirect costs (overhead) for grants and contracts as follows: Up to 5% indirect cost (overhead) rate for colleges, universities, government agencies, and non-profit organizations.

Ai Weiwei Art Installation at Alcatraz
@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in a Virtual 3D Space

Visitors can now revisit—or view for the first time—this once-in-a-lifetime installation of art within the confines of Alcatraz.

Ai Weiwei Art Installation at Alcatraz
@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: With Wind, New Industries Building

This large-scale installation, located in the building once used for prison labor, is based on the traditional Chinese "dragon kite" and features multiple kites strung together to create a single, large multipart kite. 

Ai Weiwei, Trace 2014 (New Industries Building, Alcatraz)
@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Trace, New Industries Building

In this installation, the viewer is confronted with a field of 176 colorful portraits laid out across an expanse of the floor. Each portrait—intricately constructed from LEGO® bricks—represents an individual who has been imprisoned or exiled because of his or her beliefs, actions, or affiliations. 

 

@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Refraction, New Industries Building (with tunnel access)
@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Refraction, New Industries Building (with tunnel access)

Using the imagery of flight to evoke the tension between freedom and confinement, this monumental installation—weighing more than five tons—is modeled after a bird’s wing. 

@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Stay Tuned, A Block
@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Stay Tuned, A Block

Stay Tuned invites visitors into 12 individual cells in A Block, where they can sit and listen to spoken words, poetry, and music by people who have been imprisoned for the creative expression of their beliefs—as well as works created under conditions of incarceration.

@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Blossom, Hospital
@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Blossom, Hospital

With intricately detailed encrustations of ceramic flowers, Ai transforms the utilitarian fixtures (sinks, toilets, and tubs) in several hospital ward cells and medical offices into fantastical, fragile porcelain bouquets.

@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Yours Truly, Dining Hall
@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in 3D: Yours Truly, Dining Hall

Yours Truly serves as a springboard for visitors to engage in a global conversation about the responsibilities that we all bear as members of the international community.