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Stretching three miles westward from the Haight to the Pacific Ocean and just under a half-mile wide at its broadest point, Golden Gate Park is the great urban park of San Francisco and at 1,017 acres around twenty percent larger than New York's Central Park. Conceived in 1870 by the city's Park Commission on land widely considered an unpromising stretch of shifting sand dunes, the park was painstakingly transformed by the chief engineer William Hammond Hall and his successor John McLaren, whose...