Buena Vista Park

Located smack-dab in the middle of the city, Buena Vista holds the distinction of being San Francisco’s first park and the city’s last remaining coastal oak grove. The steep, paved trails here twist and turn beneath the canopy to make you feel like you’re walking through a secluded enchanted forest. Keep an eye out for the fragments of marble lining some of the trails and gutters, they are headstones from early San Francisco graveyards left unclaimed when the city’s deceased were moved to Colma between 1914 and 1940.