Hey San Franciscans, is this your year? Is commitment looking attractive to you, and you’re ready to propose a life together to your significant other? San Francisco has plenty of romantic spots in which to make that most important of requests: the top of Coit Tower, the lawn in front of the Legion of Honor, pretty much anywhere with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge.
But we have an offbeat suggestion for you. It’s not in San Francisco proper, but on Yerba Buena Island—and it’s anchored by a beautiful minimalist sculpture.
Panorama Park on Yerba Buena Island is aptly named. You can turn in a complete circle here for 360-degree views of the bay, the bridges, downtown San Francisco, Alcatraz and Treasure Island. Best of all, in the center of the park is Point of Infinity, a sculpture by photographer and architect Hiroshi Sugimoto. This gorgeous and unusual sculpture wells up from the ground to taper to a point that may reach for infinity—which is a nice symbolic place to start your forever. After all, we all hope that our relationship will stretch into infinity, with love that survives even death.
Sugimoto was born in Japan and moved to the U.S. in 1970 as a young man. Point of Infinity—which debuted in 2023—was the first monumental sculpture created under the Treasure Island Arts Master Plan and was selected from a public competition out of 495 entries, according to the San Francisco Arts Commission. The sculpture is 23 feet wide at its base and rises to 69 feet while narrowing to a diameter of a mere 7/8 inch. It consists of eight glass fiber reinforced concrete panels for the base that transition to mirror-polished marine grade 316 stainless steel for the top 50.5 feet. It sits on the foundations of a decommissioned water tank, a prosaic spot that is now an incredibly scenic overlook.
For romance’s sake, we could say that Point of Infinity resembles a ring rest where you put your engagement ring when you’re not wearing it. If your dog or your significant other’s dog is part of making plans for the future, then stop by the Rocks Dog Park on Yerba Buena, too.
Windswept, dramatic, beautiful: The site with this simple but meaningful sculpture may be the most romantic place in San Francisco to pledge your life to someone else.
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