History

Ranger Desiree will be taking you on a two-mile hike starting at the Presidio Visitor Center to El Polin Spring. She will take you back to where her ancestors once stood and share how Ohlone people use this park today.

Discover how Point Bonita provided safe passage through the treacherous Golden Gate and experience the last manned lighthouse on the Pacific Coast.

This restored Cold War anti-aircraft missile site has intriguing stories to tell.

Veterans of the Nike program come to the site to share their stories with visitors and give guided tours of SF88 between the hours of 12pm - 3pm.

Join our Park Rangers in learning Fort Point's History in this 15 minute long talk. The program is accessible. The times of the program are 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m. 

Come experience history first hand at a 160 year old Civil War Era fort!

Join Ranger Al Blank on an easy walk through Fort Baker and hear the story of the true first American cowboys!

If the buildings in the Main Post could talk, what would they say? Join this Docent led program to find out!

Walk back to the time of Juana Briones, and explore the untold stories of African-Latinx in California's colonial period.

Battery Townsley, at Fort Cronkhite, was San Francisco's most extensive--and most secret--World War II military fortification. Come visit and explore this labyrinthine battery.