Golden Gate Park, located in
San Francisco,
California,
United States, is a large
urban park consisting of of public grounds. It is administered by the
San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, which began in 1871 to oversee the development of Golden Gate Park. Configured as a rectangle, it is similar in shape but 20 percent larger than
Central Park in
New York, to which it is often compared. It is over three miles long east to west, and about half a mile north to south. With 13 million visitors annually, Golden Gate is the fifth most-visited city park in the United States after
Central Park in New York City,
Lincoln Park in Chicago, and
Balboa Park and
Mission Bay Park in San Diego.