Travel Reference
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Best
Outdoors
If the climb doesn't take your breath away on hilltop parks, the scenery surely
will. Nature has been kind to San Francisco, but it has taken generations of pion-
eering conservation efforts to preserve this splendor. Early champions include Si-
erra Club founder John Muir, Golden Gate Park planner William Hammond Hall,
and ordinary San Franciscans who saw beauty and not just gold in these hills.
San Francisco's Green Outlook
Recent reports rank San Francisco the greenest city in North America - but you could
probably guess that at a glance. All around you'll notice wild ideas at work: mandatory
citywide composting, voluntary urban beekeeping, plastic-bag bans and army airstrips re-
purposed as nature preserves. This is one town where you can eat, sleep and cavort sustain-
ably - and from the bottom of its heart to the top of its green hills, San Francisco thanks
you.
Wheels & Waves
Daredevil hills and dazzling waters invite SF visitors to roll, surf and sail around town.
Haight St is street-skateboarding at its obstacle-course best, and disco-skaters roll in
Golden Gate Park on Sundays.
Bone-chilling Pacific riptides are not for novices; check the
surf report
( 415-273-1618)
before you suit up. Sailing is best April through August, but whale-watching season peaks
mid-October through December.
