Read on for a first look at the other features of the Tunnel Tops. Though families from APA Chinatown, Edgewood Center for Children and Families and the Rafiki Coalition were the first to play there, Tunnel Tops will play a special role in lives of many San Franciscans to come. 2 reason residents enjoy living in the city. Opening on the heels of Russian Hill’s Francisco Park and its Presidio neighbor, Battery Bluff, Tunnel Tops represents the pinnacle of a long line of impressive new parks to open recently around San Francisco-welcome news given the SF Standard Poll found parks and green space to be the No. Children play on a slide at the Outpost, a two-acre play area which is a port of The Presidio Tunnel Tops in San Francisco on Friday, June 10, 2022. The Presidio Trust, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and the National Parks Service brought the project to life after three years of construction, $98 million in donations to the GGNPC and a $20 million gift from Presidio Trust.
| Brian Feulner for The Standardĭesigned by James Corner Field Operations, lead designers of New York’s High Line, the Tunnel Tops creates another next-level “urban nature” destination in the Presidio. A view of the Presidio Tunnel Tops Outpost playground during a pre-opening event on Friday, June 10, 2022. Its wide lawns, picnic areas and trails will give visitors sweeping bridge-to-downtown views when it officially opens to the public on July 17. The eagerly-awaited park sits atop two of the new Presidio Parkway tunnels and unites Crissy Field with the Main Post for the first time since the 1930s. A gaggle of pint-sized San Franciscans tested out the Presidio’s massive new playground on Friday, providing a first glimpse of the Presidio Tunnel Tops, a 14-acre wonderland that will immediately become a must-hang for city dwellers and tourists alike.