Locals call Grand View Park “Turtle Hill” for the rounded green shell it makes above San Francisco’s Sunset District, reached by a short climb up a mosaic tiled stairway. From the sandy top you get a genuine 360-degree sweep — Golden Gate to downtown to the Pacific — without the tour buses that clog nearby Twin Peaks. It’s the kind of viewpoint that stays a neighborhood secret precisely because it takes five minutes of stairs to earn.
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