The Glen Park Association

Up-to-the-minute news from Glen Park

Glen Park Rec Center

Wheelchair basketball is so exciting! You can see it at the Glen Park Rec Center!

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There was an exciting spectacle happening at the Glen Park Rec Center when the SF Rec & Park Department (SFRPD) faced off against the Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program (BORP), based in Berkeley, in a wheelchair basketball tournament. There were four teams in total. The RPD team is the aptly named Rolling Fog. The […]

Elk Street Mural meeting 11/16

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Review a proposed new mural at Glen Canyon Park’s Elk Street retaining wall on Saturday, November 16 from 1:30 to 3 p.m., at the Glen Canyon Park Recreation Center (70 Elk Street). Meet the muralist, Sirron Norris and provide feedback. (To see some of Sirron’s past murals, click here.) Norris incorporated input from the September […]

More Changes to Glen Canyon Park

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Now a neglected huddle of aged eucalyptus trees and occasional dumping ground, a swath of Glen Canyon Park near O’Shaughnessy Boulevard is planned to grow into an oak-shaded riparian corridor, with work already under way. The changes began last March when crews with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission removed 11 trees on each side […]

Glen Canyon Park gets high scores in annual report

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Every three months the Recreation and Parks Department (RPD) and the Controller’s Office rate the city’s 166 parks, playgrounds and civic plazas on a wide array of criteria covering built facilities and natural areas. The findings are sliced and diced and published in an annual report covering the fiscal year– July 2021 through June 2022–and […]