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On December 6, 2022, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance to maintain the Great Highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard as a car-free promenade until Dec. 31, 2025, allowing for a three-year pilot study.
The Great Highway is a 3.8-mile-long roadway running along Ocean Beach on the westernmost side of San Francisco. The Upper Great Highway is a two-mile segment of this roadway, between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard.
In December 2022, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance to maintain the Upper Great Highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard as a car-free promenade until December 31, 2025, allowing for a three-year pilot study.
The project will transform the public shoreline, improve coastal access north of Fort Funston with a new multi-use trail connecting Lake Merced and Fort Funston to Ocean Beach, the Zoo, and the Great Highway. The project will also protect vital municipal infrastructure from coastal erosion.
The Upper Great Highway is about 2-miles long, and most people don’t walk the whole stretch in one go. When I asked 20 pedestrians how far they walked that Friday, most said they went about ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Right now, San Francisco’s Great Highway is closed to vehicles between Sloat Boulevard and Lincoln Way on weekends. However, a November ballot initiative asks voters if...
The Great Highway is a spectacular park promenade along Ocean Beach providing safe play space on wide roads for pedestrians, cyclists, and all other forms of recreation, for all visitors on weekends: Fridays – starting at noon. Saturdays – all day. Sundays – all day. Mondays – ending at 6 AM.
Still, on weekends, the Great Highway has become a unique destination — in a city full of them — to take in San Francisco’s wild Pacific Ocean coastline by foot, bike, skates or scooter,...
The Upper Great Highway has become an urban escape for locked-down San Franciscans, but some residents aren’t fans of the traffic its closure has created. The beachside road’s future as a pedestrian-friendly corridor or high-speed thoroughfare hangs in the balance.
The Great Highway has been park space since 1874. The original vision was to make the oceanfront space “more than just an auxiliary” to Golden Gate Park. In fact, the Great Highway has the distinction of being one of San Francisco’s first parks, alongside Golden Gate, Mountain Lake, and Buena Vista parks. Image Source.