Candlestick Point State Recreation Area

Candlestick Point State Recreation Area sits on the southeastern edge of San Francisco, a shoreline stretch of grassy uplands and pocket beaches that marks the boundary between the city and the bay. This one hundred seventy-acre site holds a distinct place in the state park system as California’s first urban state park, established in nineteen seventy-seven after a long, community-led push to reclaim the land from decades of industrial use and neglect.