Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, United States, is a
large urban park consisting
of 1,017 acres (412 ha) of public grounds. It is administered by the San
Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, which began in 1871 to oversee
the development of Golden Gate Park. Configured as a rectangle, it is similar
in shape but 20 percent larger than Central Park in New York, to which it is
often compared. It is over three miles (4.8 km) long east to west, and
about half a mile (0.8 km) north to south. With 13 million visitors
annually, Golden Gate is the fifth most-visited city park in the United States
after Central Park in
New York City, Lincoln
Park in Chicago, and Balboa and Mission Bay Parks in
San Diego