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

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.

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

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!

Celebrate the Cliff House with this high-quality print.

Celebrate Crissy Field with this high-quality print.

Celebrate Fort Baker with this high-quality print.

Celebrate Fort Point with this high-quality print.

Celebrate the Cliff House with this high-quality print.

Celebrate Crissy Field with this high-quality print.

Bring home the beauty of your favorite national parklands with artwork from our Golden Gate National Parks Collection. Celebrate Fort Baker with this high-quality print.

Celebrate Fort Point with this high-quality print.

Celebrate the beauty of the Marin Headlands with this print.

This park identity image created by Marin-based artist Michael Schwab reflects the Presidio's grand, historic, main post and the Golden Gate Bridge.

The fog at San Francisco's Golden Gate is legendary. Created when moist ocean air drifts across the cold California current flowing parallel to the coastline, the sea, or advection, fog is drawn inland through this narrow gap in the Coast Range. It then flows up and over the iconic bridge.