Bayview Park

You are approaching a place that represents a major victory for local activism. In the nineteen seventies, the residents of the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood fought to transform this stretch of shoreline into a public green space. They rejected the encroaching industrial development and landfilling that had turned much of the nearby waterfront into a wasteland. Their success made this California's first urban state park in nineteen seventy-seven, creating a rare refuge of nature within the dense city.