Golden Gate Park, Around Lake Hike, Band Concert & Lunch

We'll be touring the areas around Stow Lake today. Followed by a concert by the GG Park Band. (They have provided music in the Park since 1882.) The Golden Gate Park Band will be presenting a lively program celebrating songs and dances from around the world. The concert starts at 1:00pm, ends 2:30pm. We'll reach the Band Shell a little after 12:00. Here you will have many choices, stay for lunch and the music, visit one of the many close by attractions or head back. I'll stay for the concert.

*Don't be a no-show. See the Group's no-show policy below.
Don't be a no-show and lose your membership in the Group. Attendance is always taken and no-shows recorded.

Here's a link to the video of the tour we did here on May 21st, 2022.

Golden Gate Park celebrated its 150th year anniversary in 2020. That's a lot of urban history. We'll get into just a little bit of that fascinating history today. But we want to get a good walk in.
Distance today will be around 3.5 miles. Little up hills or elev. gain.

Bring water. Food trucks are available. My all time favorite is Sam's Chowder House truck, behind the huge, music Band Shell. The best clam chowder around. Also Annie's food carts and others too.

A word about parking. For ideal parking aim for the intersection of Bowling Green Dr. & Nancy Pelosi Dr. Try using the address of 300 Bowling Green Dr. for GPS. Break-ins are common here. Do not leave anything visible in your car.

Below are the POI highlights to choose from in the eastern section.

Golden Gate Park, (A sampling of POIs)
Conservatory of Flowers (1878)
US President James Garfield Statue (1884)
Victorian era Baseball Player Statue, by Douglas Tilden (1891)
Lily Pond & Australian Tree Fern Dell (1902)
Tennis Courts (1894-2021)
Lawn Bowling Courts (1901)
Sharon Meadow (1894)
Coffee House in the Park (recent)
Lake Alford (1882)
Alford Bridge & Tunnel (1889)
Children's Quarter (1888)
Sharon Building (1888)
GG Park Carousal (1888-first Carousal)
A Monastery Stone & the amazing story of these 10,000 stones that landed in the Park from Spain in 1931?
Handball Courts
Big Rec Baseball fields (1893)
Shakespeare Flower Garden(1928)
Spreckels Temple of Music , the "Band Shell" (1900)
LUNCH (about 12:15pm)
Music Concourse (built for 1894, Calif.Mid-Winter Fair) & new Ferris Wheel
(Golden Gate Park Band plays Sundays at 1:00pm in season.)
Japanese Tea Garden (1894)
Stowe Lake (1881)
San Francisco Botanical Garden (1940)
(Then returning to where we started by way of the Conservatory of Flowers, we'll pass by the following.)

Itinerary-San Francisco Botanical Garden Tour, If we go there on this tour?
Garden of Fragrance
Rhododendron Garden
Heidelberg Hill & Magnolias
Mediterranean Garden
Ancient & Primitive Plant Garden
South Africa/(Cape Town) Garden
New Zealand & Australia
Andean Cloud Forest
Zellerbach Garden of Perennials
Japanese Moon Viewing Garden
Camellia Garden
Redwood Grove
California Natives
Lots of interesting things in the Park.
In-season:
"Magnificent Magnolias", peak bloom time around Feb.1st. But we'll find lots of other beautiful plants and flowers to amaze.

(*Don't be a no-show.) It's good to give out name tags which I do. I fill out the name tags just before I leave for the tour. This also gives me a way to take attendance. Because name tags that are not picked up, are recorded as no-shows. If you get too many no-shows recorded in your personal Meet-up profile you'll be cancelled from this Meetup.

(To cancel your RSVP beforehand [please at least 24 hrs. in advance]. Look for the, "Edit Attendance" tab at the bottom right hand corner of the screen for laptops and left, bottom on phones.)