Grand View Park ("Turtle Hill")

A recipe for happiness in the "cool grey city of love."

To the seasoned San Franciscan there is no finer view in the Bay Area than that from San Francisco's front porch, Turtle Hill or "Grand View Park". If the North American continent / plate is a ship, then Grand View Park is the prow giving epic, vast views up and down the California coast and of Golden Gate Park, the Marin Headlands, Golden Gate Bridge and Downtown. Sunset here is simply breathtaking at all times of year.

Check online for the time of today's sunset. Look outside to see if Karl the Fog is covering the Sunset (and the sunset) and if not, make your way to the Inner Sunset to roughly 14th & Noriega.

Heed the advice of local literary legend Greg Kamiya and take a bottle of champagne with you, and then, with one grand park and one grand view and one man or woman who loves you, you've found a recipe for happiness that Ferlinghetti would approve of.