Buena Vista Park and
Corona Heights

Steeply rising Buena Vista Park comes down to Haight Street several blocks east of Ashbury Street.  It is ringed by single family houses built mostly from the 1890s to 1910.  A few were built as late as 1960.  The park's perimeter road which is dedicated to parking for the entire circumference of the park usually provides dependable parking for area residents without garages, and neighborhood visitors.  The road as the name of the park implies also offers some nice views. 

One of the pictures in the photo medley looking toward Mount Tamalpais in Marin County can be expanded further by clicking on the thumbnail.  It shows St. Ignatius Church at the University of San Francisco, the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Marin headlands in the background.

It is claimed that Buena Vista was used by the Spaniards as a lookout point, but I would say they used another prominence just south, Corona Heights, so called because it is capped by an array of rocks.  Not that this port was visited very often by outsiders during the Spaniards' short reign.