Toward the Golden Gate

In the Marin Headlands, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, looking southeasterly. The Marin Headlands and vicinity had hosted a variety of military installations for over a century. When the military relinquished the land in the late 60s because the installations had become obsolete, developers wanted to snatch it up. Fortunately, the land was turned over to the Park Service instead, and the area has become an incongruous patch of nearly wild land right at the edge of the metropolitan area.