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DIRECTIONS Parking around Golden Gate Park is often hard to find, especially on weekends. Also, there are road closures within the park on weekends and most holidays. If possible, use public transportation. San Francisco Muni bus lines 5, 21, and 33 serve the trailhead at Fulton and Arguello streets. For more information, call SF Muni: (415) 673-6864.

FACILITIES/TRAILHEAD Restrooms, phones, and snack/food vendors are scattered throughout the park. There are no facilities at the trailhead, which is at Clark Gate, on the southeast corner of Arguello Blvd. and Fulton St.

Conservatory of Flowers is one of the park’s best-loved and most-photographed buildings.

From the trailhead, you go through a gap in the stone wall, just left of the two pillars flanking the Arguello entrance to the park. Steps help you negotiate a steep uphill pitch that leads southeast, into a forest of ivy-draped coast live oaks. Passing a rest bench, you follow a single-track trail to a fork, where you bear left (the right-hand branch soon rejoins). Joining the native oaks in this part of the park are planted species such as eucalyptus, cypress, Monterey pine, acacia, and olive.