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Marion Weeks holds a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk for radiotelemetry

Bird Call: GGRO Seeks New Volunteer Citizen-Scientists for Fall Season

Interested in studying hawks, falcons, and eagles as a volunteer with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory? Learn about May recruitment meetings, and hear about the wonder of this work from current banders and hawkwatchers—some of whom have been volunteering for over two decades!

Fall 2020 guide to the parks

This year we’ve missed seeing volunteers, program participants, students, and the rest of our park community in person—but we’ve been so inspired by what we’ve been able to do together at a distance.

20 years at the Crissy Field Center

Over 20 years, the Crissy Field Center team has reached over 750,000 participants through their programs. Programming has always used parks as a platform for young people to develop skills to create change in communities and society through environmental and social justice.

Engagement Process for Multi-year Effort to Revitalize Crissy Field Begins

The National Park Service, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and the Presidio Trust launched the public engagement process for a multi-year effort to revitalize the Crissy Field area of the Presidio.

View of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Presidio of San Francisco from Fort Baker.

Op-Ed | Urban Gateways, Woven Into Daily Life

Gateway communities are the front doors of our National Park System, and the Bay Area is fortunate to have many. The GGNRA is just a bus, bike, or boat ride away for many living in San Francisco and neighboring areas. Read the Op-Ed by Parks Conservancy President & CEO Christine Lehnertz to see how we're delivering on the promise of these unique national park sites to build welcoming and belonging in local communities.

Site Responsive Exhibition Convenes 16 International Artists To Reflect On Human Impact And Increasing Complexity Of National Security In Our Time

Home Land Security brings together work by 16 contemporary artists and collectives from around the globe to reflect on the human dimensions and increasing complexity of national security, including the physical and psychological borders we create, protect, and cross in its name.

Installation Locations for @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz

Ai Weiwei created seven large-scale sculpture, sound, and mixed-media site-specific artworks for installation in four places on Alcatraz Island: the two-story New Industries Building, where "privileged" inmates were permitted to work; the main ward and psychiatric observation cells of the Alcatraz Hospital; the A Block cells, the only remaining section of the military prison that was constructed in the early 20th century; and the Alcatraz Dining Hall. With the exception of the Dining Hall, these spaces are not usually open to visitors, but all were open to the public throughout the run of the @Large exhibition.

Fall 2017 Guide to the Parks for the Hip and Happening

FOMO ALERT! For the young and young at heart, the parks are full of must-see spectacles and must-do activities this autumn. Check our list of the top eight park attractions this fall, and then fire up your social media apps and get those hashtags ready.

A juvenile Northern Harrier after banding. GGRO bands an average of just 10 Northern Harriers per season, but counted 600 Northern Harrier sightings from Hawk Hill in 2018.

Raptors up close! Best photos from Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands

To get warmed up for our favorite time of year—raptor migration season, that is—and GGRO’s incredible 35th year in existence, we’re taking a look back at the best photos from hawkwatch over the last few years.