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The Sunset District

The Sunset District is a sprawling, mostly residential neighborhood located directly south of Golden Gate Park. The largest district in San Francisco, and one of the last areas of the City to be originally developed, many of the homes and buildings in this neighborhood were built between the 1920s and the 1950s, with the vast majority of construction taking place during the 1930s and '40s. Like its neighbor the Richmond District, which flanks Golden Gate Park from the north, the Sunset District has been divided into several sections: "Inner Sunset," "Central Sunset" and "Outer Sunset" (the areas that comprise the northern half of the district), and "Inner Parkside," "Central Parkside" and "Outer Parkside" (the southern half of the district). An area southwest of the Inner Sunset and northeast of the Inner Parkside forms yet another sub-district known as "Golden Gate Heights." Also like the Richmond, the Sunset District is close to the Pacific Ocean (indeed, the ocean serves as the western border for both the Outer Sunset and Outer Parkside neighborhoods); for this reason, the area tends to be blanketed foggy during the morning and early afternoon hours, especially during the summer.

Golden Gate Heights

A hilly, twisty, affluent neighborhood located south of the Inner Sunset and northwest of Forest Hill, Golden Gate Heights is roughly bordered by Kirkham Street to the north, Quintara Street to the south, 8th Avenue to the east and 17th Avenue to the west. Like most houses in the greater Sunset District, the properties in Golden Gate Heights tend to be narrow, two-story layouts, with windows along the front and backyard sides. Unlike most residences in the Sunset, the backyards here, being built along a slope, often offer spectacular, typically unobstructed views of the Pacific Ocean with its various ships and a panoply of ever changing colors, even on an overcast day. Grand View Park is on the northern end of the neighborhood, while Golden Gate Heights Park is on the southern end. Nearby 19th Avenue offers direct access to Golden Gate Park, Interstate 280 and California Highway 1.