Baker Beach
Mile-long strand beneath towering cypress, with unobstructed views of a red suspension bridge and old coastal gun batteries.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Baker Beach in San Francisco follows three very different stories the mile of sand has held: a foggy morning in May 1959 when college student Albert Kogler swam into the cold water, the concrete bunker of Battery Chamberlin and the vanishing coastal gun the Army built to defend the bay's mouth, and a nineteen-seventies tradition that still draws crowds today. Stand near the cypress line at the north end for the clearest view back toward the bridge.
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