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The following is from the website baycrossing.com :
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) begins at Fort Mason and continues around Fort Point, passing above Baker Beach, to the Coastal Trail. Here, you can explore the San Francisco headlands from Lands End to Ocean Beach, and continue to Fort Funston. Approximately 20 miles, this is an epic, and highly scenic bike ride (you encounter some hills as you pass through the Presidio, Sea Cliff and Lincoln Park Golf Stop for a moment or two and experience the views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Baker Beach, (where the only shark attack ever recorded in San Francisco took place, in 1939). Many sites are worth checking out: the Palace of Legion of Honor, the Cliff House and the Sutro Baths ruins. As you bike the Coastal Trail between Sea Cliff and Sutro Baths, you follow cliff top the route of the Ferries and Cliff House Railroad which ran around Lands End out to the beach in the 1880s. The rugged coastline here is shrouded in Cypress forest and, with the exception of seacoast batteries, remains undeveloped and wild. The water offshore here is treacherous, with a local surf spot referred to as Dead Mans and the remains of three shipwrecks visible off Lands End. The offshore rock with the light on it is Mile Rock, and further around by Sutro Baths is Point Lobos, which together form a pair of submerged rocks that are notorious for piercing the hulls of passing ships. The freighter SS Ohioan hit the rocks off of Point Lobos so hard in 1936 its said that the resulting sparks lit up the night sky. You may spot its remains looking north from Point Lobos. The wrecks of two tankers lie under the surface by Mile Rock. The SS Frank Buck went down in 1937 just south of Mile Rock. You can look for it along with the wreck of the Lyman Stewart, which ran aground in 1922, from the Coast Trail between Vista Point and the Palace of the Legion of Honor.
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) begins at Fort Mason and continues around Fort Point, passing above Baker Beach, to the Coastal Trail. Here, you can explore the San Francisco headlands from Lands End to Ocean Beach, and continue to Fort Funston. Approximately 20 miles, this is an epic, and highly scenic bike ride (you encounter some hills as you pass through the Presidio, Sea Cliff and Lincoln Park Golf Stop for a moment or two and experience the views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Baker Beach, (where the only shark attack ever recorded in San Francisco took place, in 1939). Many sites are worth checking out: the Palace of Legion of Honor, the Cliff House and the Sutro Baths ruins. As you bike the Coastal Trail between Sea Cliff and Sutro Baths, you follow cliff top the route of the Ferries and Cliff House Railroad which ran around Lands End out to the beach in the 1880s. The rugged coastline here is shrouded in Cypress forest and, with the exception of seacoast batteries, remains undeveloped and wild. The water offshore here is treacherous, with a local surf spot referred to as Dead Mans and the remains of three shipwrecks visible off Lands End. The offshore rock with the light on it is Mile Rock, and further around by Sutro Baths is Point Lobos, which together form a pair of submerged rocks that are notorious for piercing the hulls of passing ships. The freighter SS Ohioan hit the rocks off of Point Lobos so hard in 1936 its said that the resulting sparks lit up the night sky. You may spot its remains looking north from Point Lobos. The wrecks of two tankers lie under the surface by Mile Rock. The SS Frank Buck went down in 1937 just south of Mile Rock. You can look for it along with the wreck of the Lyman Stewart, which ran aground in 1922, from the Coast Trail between Vista Point and the Palace of the Legion of Honor.