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A group collects seed in a grassland. A volunteer holds a tray of seeds.

Marin Headlands Nursery

Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 10:00am - 1:00pm

Marin Headlands Native Plant Nursery

Learn to grow and care for native plants while helping to preserve and restore your national park.

Marin Headlands Nursery

Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 10:00am - 1:00pm

Marin Headlands Native Plant Nursery

Learn to grow and care for native plants while helping to preserve and restore your national park.

Seal Rocks seen in the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco's Lands End.

New Year's Planting Day

Sat, Jan 3, 2026, 10:00am - 1:00pm

Lands End Parking Lot

Join us for our next Belonging in Nature program! We'll be doing an easy walk with birding and native plant identification.

Registration Required

Invasive Plant Patrol

Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 10:00am - 2:30pm

Kirby Cove Gate

Hiking with a mission – help find and remove new infestations of invasive weeds while exploring the parks.

Registration Required

Invasive Plant Patrol

Wed, Dec 3, 2025, 10:00am - 2:30pm

Battery Alexander Trailhead and Parking Lot

Hiking with a mission – help find and remove new infestations of invasive weeds while exploring the parks.

Registration Required

Invasive Plant Patrol

Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 10:00am - 2:30pm

Homestead Valley - Fire Road Gate on Panoramic Hwy

Hiking with a mission – help find and remove new infestations of invasive weeds while exploring the parks.

Registration Required

What's New

It's Easy Being Green

Lands End overlook with views of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Lands End Improvements Advance With New Major Gift

Lands End Restoration Moves Full Steam Ahead

View of the Golden Gate Bridge and Marin Headlands from the Presidio batteries

Major Gift Completes Challenge Grant for Presidio Trails

Major Project at Redwood Creek Restores a Fragile and Important Ecosystem in Marin

Muir Woods to Celebrate 100 Years as National Monument

New Partnership to Launch SFMOMA's Off-Site Programming

Parks Conservancy's Band of Bridges Project Honored with Travel+Leisure's Social Media in Travel + Tourism (SMITTY) Award

Presidio of San Francisco Receives $15 Million Gift from the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund

The outside of Lands End Lookout at sunset

San Francisco's Lands End Gets A Visitor Center Worthy Of Its World Class Views

San Francisco's Only Overnight Campground Set to Re-open

The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Awards $1 Million Grant To Create A New Vista At Battery East, Presidio

Tis The Season To Be Environmentally Savvy

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2018 Golden Gate National Parks calendar cover image

2018 Calendar - Golden Gate National Parks Icons

The 2018 Golden Gate National Recreation Area Calendar is now available! The calendar features 12 images by illustrator Michael Schwab. Pick yours up today!

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Model of Alcatraz inside a fog globe. The globe's base says "Alcatraz Island, San Francisco"

Alcatraz Island Fog Globe

Billowing through the Golden Gate Strait, the fog that swirls around Alcatraz Island has played a pivotal role in the island’s history, from the establishment of the first lighthouse on the Pacific Coast, to six fog-shrouded escape attempts during the federal penitentiary era.

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Alcatraz Rules and Regulations Mugs

Our Stoneware Alcaraz Regulation mugs each feature text from the Alcatraz Rules and Regulations handbook that all inmates were required to follow.

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Alcatraz: Believe It Or Not

For a small island, Alcatraz has a big reputation. This book collects the island’s strange-but-true stories of escapes, madness, and mayhem. Informative, surprising, and handsomely illustrated, this book is like nothing you’ve read. So, dive in and enjoy the swim... Warning! May be scary!

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Calendars and Stationery Buy now!