Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Managed by the National Park Service, Golden Gate NRA was established as a U.S. National Recreational Area. Home to sprawling natural landscapes, beaches and rolling hill-points, as well as historical, cultural, architectural and archaeological landmarks, Golden Gate NRA is a gift to San Francisco from Mother Nature herself. Surrounded and fortified with the San Francisco’s Bay and the Pacific shorelines, the NRA is a natural habitat of several vegetation, wild-life, and marine-life, thus making it a distinct ecosystem.

Attracting tourists from all over the world it caters to them with a wide range of recreational parks, island trips, hiking educational programs, museums tours and wondrous view-points.
Golden Gate NRA documents the history of the Miwoks and Ohlone Native American culture, the Spanish missionaries, the Russian, Japanese and Chinese immigration, and the Mexican Republic, to maritime history, the California Gold Rush, the evolution of American coastal fortifications, and the growth of urban San Francisco.