Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy

Alcatraz Night Tour
Thursday through Monday evenings
Location: Alcatraz
This award-winning tour, limited to just a few hundred visitors each evening, features spectacular sunsets, fascinating stories, and spine-tingling adventures in the dark corners of the old island prison.
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Alcatraz Gardens
Wednesdays and Fridays 8:30 AM
Location: Alcatraz
Join our garden volunteer crews each week to re-establish the extraordinary historic gardens of Alcatraz.
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Nike Missile Site Open House
Open the first Saturday of each month, and Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons 12:30 PM
Location: Marin Headlands
Unique in the National Park Service, this restored Cold War anti-aircraft missile site has stories to tell.
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Presidio Plant Patrol
Fridays 1 PM
Location: Crissy Field, Presidio
Join our Natural Resources staff eradicating noxious weeds that pose threats to the native biodiversity of Presidio plants and animals.
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Marin Headlands Native Plant Nursery

Saturdays 9 AM - 12 PM
Wednesdays 1 PM - 4 PM

Location: Marin Headlands, Marin County
Come grow with us at the Marin Headlands Native Plant Nursery! Volunteers are vital in the effort to grow plants, collect seeds, maintain the nursery facility, and much more.
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Alcatraz Night Tour
Thursday through Monday evenings
Location: Alcatraz
This award-winning tour, limited to just a few hundred visitors each evening, features spectacular sunsets, fascinating stories, and spine-tingling adventures in the dark corners of the old island prison.
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Trail Crew Volunteers

1st and 3rd Saturdays, 9 AM - Noon (Park-wide Sites)
2nd Tuesdays, Noon - 3 PM (Presidio Sites)
Seasonal: April - November (no winter projects)

Location: Crissy Field, Fort Funston, Fort Point, Marin Headlands, Muir Woods, Presidio, San Mateo
The Parks' trails need you! Help repair and maintain trails, construct new routes, and protect sensitive natural habitat in Marin, the Presidio, San Francisco, and San Mateo.
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Shakespeare in the Park: Pericles
Saturday evenings at 7:30 pm, Sunday afternoon and Labor Day Monday matinees at 2:30 pm
Location: Presidio
Bring your family, friends, a blanket, and a picnic to enjoy a free performance by the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.
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A Lovers' Line: Self-Guided Walk
Sept. 6 to Oct. 31, 2008
Location: Presidio
Lovers Lane is the Presidio’s oldest foot trail—and one of its most storied. This fall, a new interactive audio experience, "A Lovers’ Line", offers some new tales on the trail.
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Presidio Park Stewards
Wednesdays and Saturdays 9 AM
Location: Crissy Field, Presidio
Be a habitat hero! Help enhance rare native plant habitat and create important wildlife corridors in the Presidio of San Francisco.
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Area A Landscape & Maintenance
Saturdays 9 AM
Location: Crissy Field, Presidio
The Area A Landscape & Maintenance Volunteer Programs works to enhance the visitor experience at various sites throughout the coastal region of the Presidio.
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Fort Funston Nursery & Stewardship
Saturdays 9:30 AM
Location: Fort Funston
Come join the restoration efforts of the Green Team! Our volunteers participate in a variety of activities, including seed collection, propagation, transplanting, pruning, weeding, and outplanting.
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Fort Funston Cleanup Day
Every first Saturday of the month 9:30 AM
Location: Fort Funston
Bring dogs, friends, and family to
help keep Fort Funston clean for
everyone, held in conjunction with
Fort Funston Dogwalkers.
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Pier Crabbing
September 6, 2008 10 AM
Location: Fort Point
Come learn about crabbing in the San Francisco Bay. And then try your hand at it!
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Walk with Juan Bautista De Anza
September 6, 2008 10 AM
Location: Presidio
Join Ranger Eddie Arias on this moderate one-mile hike through the Presidio forest on the historic Anza Trail, named for Juan Bautista de Anza's historic walk up from Nogales, Arizona to present-day San Francisco in 1776.
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