"Fort Mason Historic District" San Francisco Things to Do Tip by Dabs

Part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area (not to be confused with Golden Gate Park), the Fort Mason Historic District is a pleasant green area to take a stroll through and has great views of the bay and the Palace of Fine Arts. Fort Mason was established here in the 1860s, between 1910 and 1963 it was the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, sending men and cargo during WWII off to the Pacific. From atop the hill we could look down at the cream colored buildings with the red tiled roofs that compromise Lower Fort Mason, a large series of warehouses and piers built from 1910-1914 used to supply Army bases across the Pacific. Upper Fort Mason is a series of the same colored buildings that had various purposes, the Civil War era barracks now house the San Francisco International Youth Hostel where I stayed on my 1st trip to San Francisco back in the 1970s

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Website: http://www.nps.gov/history/nR/travel/wwIIbayarea/mas.HTM