Park Presidio Boulevard is a road and park in
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
which connects
Golden Gate Park to the
Presidio of San Francisco. It carries
California State Route 1 along its entire route.
Running from Crossover Drive near the John F. Kennedy Drive overpass inside Golden Gate Park westward, it turns north and runs between 14th Avenue and Funston Avenue in the
Richmond District. Here, the tree-lined
boulevard
A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America, any urban highway.
Boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former city walls.
In American usage, boulevards may ...
acts as a
noise barrier for the adjacent streets; a gravel trail also runs on the east side of the road. At the northern terminus at Lake Street, the road continues into the Presidio as Veteran's Boulevard.
External links
Park Presidio Boulevard at San Francisco Recreation & Parks1964 plans for the conversion of Park Presidio Boulevard to freeway
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Streets in San Francisco
Parks in San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
Presidio of San Francisco
California State Route 1