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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.

Central Parkside

The Parkside is a mostly residential neighborhood located in the south-central portion of the greater Sunset District, bordered by 19th Avenue/California Highway 1 to the east, 37th Avenue/Sunset Boulevard to the west, Ortega Street to the north and Wawona Street to the south. Close to Sigmund Stern Grove (whose northern entrance can be accessed off Wawona Street by way of Pine Lake Park), the Central Parkside is the location of Abraham Lincoln High School, one of the leading public high schools in San Francisco, and the Sunset Reservoir, the largest man-made lake in San Francisco County. Sunset Reservoir is also the site of a planned five-megawatt solar photovoltaic system that, once developed, will more than triple the municipal solar generation in the City of San Francisco, as well as reduce carbon emissions by more than 100,000 metric tons—thus allowing eco-conscious investors an opportunity to expand their portfolios in one of the greenest areas of the City.