Free Fishing Program @ Candlestick Park
2024-03-23 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, 500 Hunters Point Expressway, San Francisco, CA, 94124, United States
Join us for free family friendly Intro to Fishing Workshop at Sunrise Point Fishing Pier.

Swing into Stories @ Garfield Playground
2024-04-02 09:30 - 12:00, 2024-05-07 09:30 - 12:00, 2024-06-04 09:30 - 12:00, 2024-07-02 09:30 - 12:00, 2024-08-06 09:30 - 12:00 | Garfield Playground, 3100 26th St, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
The Library’s YouthMobile is coming to the park! Movement and play are essential building blocks in fostering literacy and a love of reading. Join us for a high-energy storytime in our beautiful outdoors!
The YouthMobile offers a diverse selection of children’s library materials available for check-out with an SFPL library card. From the City’s only kid-focused bookmobile, we circulate materials, create library cards and provide the public with information about library services and programs. Come aboard and see what we have!
Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m.–12 noon.
Storytime at 10:30 a.m.
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1st Tuesday of the month
Garfield Playground (Treat & 26th Streets)
2nd Tuesday of the month
Koret Playground (Golden Gate Park, by the carousel)
3rd Tuesday of the month
Hilltop Playground (Newcomb Ave & Whitney Young Circle)
4th Tuesday of the month
Redwood Grove Playground (McLaren Park, 200 John F. Shelley Dr.)
More info >

Garden Resourse Day
2024-04-06 10:00 - 13:00 | Gleneagles Golf Course Overflow Parking Lot, 2100 Sunnydale Ave, San Francisco, CA 94134, San Francisco, CA, 94134, United States
The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department’s Urban Agriculture Program provides free materials for the backyard gardener, community gardener, or urban farmer through regularly scheduled Garden Resource Days. These events offer compost as well as mulch, seeds, plant starts and composting worms when available. They are a “bring-your-own-bucket” event and amounts are limited.
Learn more here >

Swing into Stories @ Koret Playground (Golden Gate Park)
2024-04-09 09:30 - 12:00, 2024-05-14 09:30 - 12:00, 2024-06-11 09:30 - 12:00, 2024-07-09 09:30 - 12:00, 2024-08-13 09:30 - 12:00 | Koret Playground @ Golden Gate Park, Koret Children's Quarter Playground, Martin Luther King Jr Dr & Bowling Green Dr,, San Francisco, CA, 94117, United States
The Library’s YouthMobile is coming to the park! Movement and play are essential building blocks in fostering literacy and a love of reading. In partnership with the SF Rec & Park, we bring stories and song to our City’s beloved parks. Join us for a high-energy storytime in our beautiful outdoors!
The YouthMobile offers a diverse selection of children’s library materials available for check-out with an SFPL library card. From the City’s only kid-focused bookmobile, we circulate materials, create library cards and provide the public with information about library services and programs. Come aboard and see what we have!
Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m.–12 noon.
Storytime at 10:30 a.m.
1st Tuesday of the month
Garfield Playground (Treat & 26th Streets)
2nd Tuesday of the month
Koret Playground (Golden Gate Park, by the carousel)
3rd Tuesday of the month
Hilltop Playground (Newcomb Ave & Whitney Young Circle)
4th Tuesday of the month
Redwood Grove Playground (McLaren Park, 200 John F. Shelley Dr.)
More info >

City Nature Challenge
2024-04-26 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-04-27 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-04-28 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-04-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Multiple Locations
The 2024 City Nature Challenge will run from April 26 – 29.
Started in 2016 as a competition between San Francisco and Los Angeles, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) has grown into an international event, motivating people around the world to find and document wildlife in and around their cities, using biodiversity recording apps and platforms like iNaturalist. Run by the Community Science teams at the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the CNC is an annual four-day global urban bioblitz at the end of April, where cities are in a collaboration-meets-friendly-competition to see not only what can be accomplished when we all work toward a common goal, but also which city can gather the most observations of nature, find the most species, and engage the most people in the event.
Multiple events will be held across the city. Find one near you here >

The EcoCenter's 14th Anniversary Volunteer Day and Celebration
2024-04-27 10:00 - 14:00 | The EcoCenter at Heron’s Head Park, 32 Jennings Street, San Francisco, CA, 94124, United States
Join the SF Port, SF Rec & Park and the EcoCenter team for this volunteer event with activities, games, workshops & more
The EcoCenter at Heron’s Head Park is celebrating its 14th Anniversary along with Earth Month.
Come out for a day of volunteering, activities, games workshops and more.
Click here to sign up!

Tasha's Voice Celebration with Author Carmen Bogan
2024-04-27 13:00 - 16:00 | Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, 500 Hunters Point Expressway, San Francisco, CA, 94124, United States
Tasha’s Voice by author Carmen Bogan, a recipient of the New Voices Award from Lee & Low Books is coming to Candlestick Point State Recreation Area. Come out for storytime, an urban walk, and a scavenger hunt.
Reserve your spot here >
This event is FREE

Día De Los Niños/Día De Los Libros
2024-04-28 11:00 - 15:00 | Parque Niños Unidos, 3090 23rd St., San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Bring your family and friends to the annual festival celebrating children, books, and literacy in the Mission. Enjoy stories, music, create-with-nature, performances and crafts led by our dedicated community partners. This is a free event on 23rd Street and Folsom.
Learn more here >

Explore and Learn @ EcoCenter
2024-04-30 10:00 - 12:00 | The EcoCenter at Heron’s Head Park, 32 Jennings Street, San Francisco, CA, 94124, United States
Explore and Learn is a program for preschoolers and their caregivers to connect with nature through stories and outdoor activities. The event is FREE and Bayview Pre-K youth, daycares and families are highly encouraged to attend from 10AM – noon. Older siblings are welcome too.
Please register here >
For more information contact EcoCenter staff at ecocenterhhp@sfgov.org or (415) 676-1394.

American Sign Language Celebration Day for Families
2024-05-25 11:00 - 15:00 | Crissy Field Center, 603 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA, 94129, United States
Join Rec and Park, ASL Love, the Presidio of San Francisco, and the San Francisco Parks Alliance for our American Sign Language (ASL) Celebration Day on Saturday, May 25 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. It will take place at the Crissy Field Center (603 Mason Street) in the Presidio and will feature ASL games and activities, resources, local vendors, educational groups and more.
For more information, visit: ASL Celebration Day for Families

Garden Resource Day
2024-06-01 10:00 - 13:00 | Gleneagles Golf Course Overflow Parking Lot, 2100 Sunnydale Ave, San Francisco, CA 94134, San Francisco, CA, 94134, United States

Pull, Pluck, Preserve @ Candlestick
2024-06-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, 500 Hunters Point Expressway, San Francisco, CA, 94124, United States
Candlestick Point State Recreation Area will be hosting a day of eco-action and camaraderie at Candlestick Point with park staff and Literacy for Environmental Justice to bolster climate resilience. Helping to remove invasive plants and learn about the vital role native plants that play in our ecosystem!
Sign up and learn more >

SOLD OUT | Get Hooked at Candlestick - Learn to Fish
2024-06-20 11:00 - 13:00 | Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, 500 Hunters Point Expressway, San Francisco, CA, 94124, United States
Come out to Candlestick Point State Recreation Area and learn to fish. This is a learn-to-fish program that will teach the basics of fishing. Learn how to set up a fishing pole and practice casting. All supplies will be provided. Bring a water bottle and hat for sun protection.
This event is SOLD OUT. Visit this page to find more events at Candlestick Point State Recreation Area.

Pollinator Day at Presidio Tunnel Tops
2024-06-22 10:00 - 15:00 | Presidio Tunnel Tops, 601 Mason St., San Francisco, CA, 94129, United States
Head out to the Presidio Tunnel Tops to close out National Pollinator Week by celebrating the diversity of our beloved winged friends! Come learn more about the lives of our very special native California pollinators and how you can help protect them. We’ll have fun activities for all ages–pollinator art, nature observation, educational games, face painting, snacks, and a scavenger hunt!
Where: By the stairs outside the Field Station at Presidio Tunnel Tops in the Presidio of San Francisco
Registration is not required–feel free to drop by anytime between 10 a.m.-3 p.m.!
Learn more here >
The Golden Gate National Parks programming is a cooperative parkwide effort of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, the National Park Service, and the Presidio Trust.

Belonging in Nature: Queer and Trans Community Day
2024-07-05 13:00 - 16:30 | Lands End, 680 Point Lobos Ave, San Francisco, 94121, United States
Join the Golden Gate Parks Conservancy for a bonus queer & trans community day this month! Head out to Lands End for an afternoon of seed collecting, meditation, nature journaling, and queer & trans community. Come chat about lessons from seeds in scarcity and abundance!
All ages are welcome.
The event is FREE but registration is required. The meeting location will be in the confirmation email after registering.
Click here to learn more >
The Golden Gate National Parks Volunteer Program is a cooperative parkwide effort of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, the National Park Service, and the Presidio Trust.

Let’s read together at Mori Point
2024-07-06 10:00 - 14:00 | Mori Point, 775 Bradford Way, Pacifica, CA, 94044, United States
Browse through the San Mateo County Library Van to find your next read and swing by the Roving Ranger to taste tea made from California native plants!
This event will focus on the importance of indigenous knowledge in our park sites to help preserve the land.
The first 30 people that register will receive a FREE copy of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall.
Please visit https://tinyurl.com/ReadInThePark to register and learn more.
This event is a collaboration between the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, the National Park Service and San Mateo County Libraries.

Fiesta En El Parque
2024-08-11 13:00 - 16:00 | Presidio Tunnel Tops, 601 Mason St., San Francisco, CA, 94129, United States
Presidio presents Fiesta En El Parque, a family-friendly Fiesta in the park. In its second year in the Presidio, the event will feature Aztec Dancing, Latin music, banda performances, and more.
Hosted by the Presidio and sponsored by Telemundo/NBC.
Learn more and RSVP >>

Family Nature Club Program
2024-08-14 14:00 - 16:00 | California Academy of Sciences, 75 Nancy Pelosi Dr., San Francisco, CA, 94118, United States
Join the Cal Academy of Sciences on their first Family Nature Club Program Launch.
The Family Nature Club (FNC) is a NEW Academy of Sciences program for families of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
The program inspires families to spend time outside playing and learning together in nature, and to grow deeper connections to their local environment and the natural world.
This FREE program will feature fun outdoor adventures, opportunities to contribute to authentic scientific research, and hands-on science for the whole family!
For any questions, please email Mia Klett at mklett@calacademy.org.
Learn more and register >>

Workshop: DIY Bird Feeder
2024-08-22 15:00 - 16:00 | Excelsior Branch Library, 4400 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, 94112, United States
Join SF Public Library to make a bird feeder from recycled materials. For ages 5 and up. Space limited.
Thursday, 8/22/2024 from 3pm-4pm at the Excelsior Library Meeting Room
Email to reserve your spot: excmgr@sfpl.org
Click here for more information >>
