Golden Gate Park contains thirty-seven contributing buildings, thirteen contributing structures, and thirty-six contributing objects.

Its 10,170 acres make it the largest urban park in the United States.

Two buildings, the Conservatory of Flowers and the Beach Chalet, are individually listed on the National Register, and the Conservatory is also California Historical Landmark 841.

Nine structures are city landmarks:

• Beach Chalet
• Conservatory
• Dutch Windmill
• Francis Scott Key Monument
• Lawn Bowling Clubhouse and Greens
• McLaren Lodge
• Murphy Windmill
• Park Emergency Hospital
• Sharon Building

This cast stone fountain, a tribute to Phoebe Apperson Hearst, stands on the south side of the music concourse in front of the California Academy of Sciences. The photograph shows the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in the background.

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Jo Mora created this bronze and natural stone sculpture of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza kneeling before a bust of Cervantes. The sculpture is on Museum Drive just off John F. Kennedy Drive.

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Rupert Schmid created this bronze and granite memorial to Ulysses Simpson Grant, Union General and 18th President of the United States. The monument is located on the south side of Museum Drive. The photograph also shows the Francis Scott Key Monument (San Francisco Landmark 96) and the partially completed Academy of Sciences.

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