Backer Beach is a mile long, but Marshall Beach which is closer to the bridge is a small hidden beach. North Baker Beach and Marchall Beach are clothing optional.
Baker Beach and Marshall Beach – Almost all the beaches in San Francisco are west and south of the Golden Gate bridge. Why did the airport move? Someone built a bridge at the end of the runway. But it was the site of the first airport in San Francisco. Chrissy Field – Now it is a park with some of the best views of the bridge and one of the places you may have to park on a busy day to walk the bridge. Fort Point – Just below the San Francisco end of the Golden Gate Bridge is a Civil War era fort. Immediately across the Golden Gate is the Marin Headlands part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Navy was also concerned about the visibility of the Golden Gate Bridge and recommended painting it with black and yellow stripes instead. Check out 75 Facts about the Golden Gate Bridge including this one: The U.S. Golden Gate Bridge – San Francisco’s most iconic bridge connects the city to the county of Marin to the north. Presidio Visitor Center – The National Park Service has a visitor center at the Presidio with rotating exhibits and a bookstore. The Golden Gate Bridge connects to San Francisco in the Presidio neighborhood. Today it is a multi-use area including parkland, a number of visitor centers, businesses (including Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic), a golf course, and a beach. Army transferred the area to the National Park Service in 1994. It started as a Spanish fort, then Mexican and later American. The Presidio was an army based for most of the city’s history. The two largest parks in the city are Golden Gate Park and the Presidio. I will skip most of the neighborhoods as I am focusing on what a tourist needs to know. I will start with the area by the Golden Gate bridge and then work my way east. Here are some of the notable neighborhoods and why tourists will visit them. One hint for getting around is that San Francisco is very hilly and you can assume that any neighborhood that includes the word “heights” or “hill” is on one of those hills. I am using the map above to try and break down the neighborhood by neighborhood sites so that at least this article will be internally consistent. Does Russian Hill go all the way to the shore as in the map above or not. Is Telegraph Hill its own neighborhood or is it part of North Beach. 
One caveat is that as I researched this article I found maddingly inconsistent ideas of which area was in which neighborhood. Financial District Barbary Coast / Chinatown.
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