Hawk Hill
Coastal overlook and former WWII gun battery, now the top raptor-migration lookout on the Pacific Flyway.
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This guide to Hawk Hill in San Francisco starts with the concrete gun battery buried here in 1942, built to fire on enemy ships and abandoned before it was finished as coastal artillery became obsolete. It follows the site's second life in the 1950s as a Nike missile radar station tracking Soviet bombers, shut down in 1971. Stand on the flat concrete pad beneath the grass, once meant to hide guns from bombers overhead.
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