The Presidio’s Tunnel Tops is getting world-class recognition for its landscape architecture and citizen science.
Designed by the same firm behind Manhattan’s High Line, the new recreation site is set atop concrete freeway tunnels and buzzes with a plastic-free nature play space, food trucks and campfire talks. At the Field Station, adventure guides lead hands-on nature activities, including identifying local plants, learning about the urban coyote population, and sampling water from San Francisco’s last free-flowing creek.
there, from the food trucks to a play zone made from fallen trees to the field station, where kids can taste local plants and stroke a taxidermied coyote that once lived in the park. Tunnel Tops is in good company in NatGeo’s ranking – here are the other four destinations that made the family-trip list. For the rest of the 25 destinations, and some spectacular photography, check out theManchester, UK:Children climb and explore the fallen tree playground at the Presidio Tunnel Tops. a14-acre park in the Presidio of San Francisco. Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group