Fort Funston for Free Family Fun in San Francisco

South of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, where the sandy bluffs are macraméed with blooming succulent, you’ll find one of the West Coast’s best venues for hang gliding—say nothing of dog watching. Welcome to Fort Funston. It’s hard to imagine a more suitable name for this former military outpost, where hang gliders dazzle hikers, dog walkers,…

To the Lighthouse: Point Bonita
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To the Lighthouse: Point Bonita

This post is part of my “Cheap and Free San Francisco” series. As you drive north across the Golden Gate bridge, leaving San Francisco on Highway 101, you will see the rugged Marin Headlands stretching into the pacific. At the west-most point sits the Point Bonita Lighthouse, built in 1855 to help ships filled with…