Bernal Heights Park

This guide to Bernal Heights Park in San Francisco returns to May 1876, when a Frenchman living downtown announced he had struck a gold-bearing ledge on this exact hillside. Word spread fast - men, women and children climbed up from the flats below, a beer seller balanced a plank table on two kegs, and for nearly a month the hill buzzed with digging and speculation. It also follows what the hilltop carries today: the squat radio tower locals call Sutrito, and the coyotes that reclaimed this grassy summit.