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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.

Outer Parkside

The Outer Parkside is bordered by 37th Avenue/Sunset Boulevard to the east, the Great Highway to the west, Ortega Street to the north and Sloat Boulevard to the south. Mostly residential, it is also the location of the Jesuit-run St. Ignatius College Preparatory, one of the oldest, most venerable private co-educational high schools in San Francisco (its rival Sacred Heart-Cathedral College Preparatory, run by the Christian Brothers and located in the heart of the Van Ness/Civic Center district, being another). One of the few neighborhoods in the City that offers ample on-street parking, the Outer Parkside (like its neighbor to the north, the Outer Sunset) is literally within a few blocks distance of the Pacific Ocean/Ocean Beach. The San Francisco Zoo is in the southwest section of the neighborhood, while the L Taraval streetcar provides access to downtown by way of the Muni Metro underground system.