High Line to Crissy Field

If you visit Manhattan, do walk the High Line. Before you go, check out the schedule of general and theme tours and other events “on the ‘Line” on the Friends of the High Line website, www.thehighline.org.

Also on this website is a section on public spaces throughout the U.S. and Canada with which the group feels some kinship (www.network.thehighline.org).

For San Francisco, they’ve chosen Crissy Field, a park at the northern edge of the city, which is about to be “refreshed.” The period for public input will be October-February (to receive notifications about GGNRA and Crissy Field planning, go to www.nps.gov/goga). Crissy Field will also soon be expanded by a 14-acre park above the tunnels over Presidio Parkway — the former Doyle Drive. The tunnel-tops expansion, to be designed by the same lead firm that planned the High Line, will link Crissy Field to the Presidio. Read more about the project, which is scheduled to open in 2021, at https://www.presidio.gov/tunnel-tops.

Let me add that San Jose enjoys a stellar urban trail, the 2.6-mile Guadalupe River Park, which serves the purposes of flood control, habitat preservation and recreation. Go to https://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/9472.