Mori Point & Sweeney Ridge
Mori Point is a bluff and wetland park with a speakeasy past and a cliff in a famous film; Sweeney Ridge, above the city, is where Spanish explorers first saw San Francisco Bay in 1769.
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Mori Point is a 110-acre park in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Conservation groups bought it at auction in 2000 for $3.3 million and gave it to the federal government in 2002; its ponds now shelter the California red-legged frog and the San Francisco garter snake. (Wikipedia)
The Mori Point Inn was a well-known Prohibition speakeasy, and in 1923 federal agents seized 24,000 cases of whiskey from a Mori family farm. The last scene of the 1971 film Harold and Maude was shot on the bluff. (Wikipedia)
Sweeney Ridge is a 1,200-acre hiking area whose summit slopes to San Francisco Bay on one side and the Pacific on the other. A marker commemorates the Portolá expedition’s first sighting of the bay in 1769. (Wikipedia)
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