Golden Gate Bridge North Vista Point

This guide to the Golden Gate Bridge's North Vista Point traces the coastal gun battery the army built into the hills above here in the 1890s, armed to stop an enemy fleet that never sailed through the strait. It follows the gunners through two world wars of watching an empty horizon, up to the year the army finally gave up on the guns. Along the way it points out the sealed-off old road just below the overlook, once open to foot traffic toward the fort at the water's edge.