Upcoming Events
Check here for updates about the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project and community activities:
Plants & Birds & Rocks & Things:
Trekking the History of Glen Canyon Park
A Crosstober Event for the San Francisco Crosstown Trail
Sat, October 18, 2025
9:00 am to 11:30 am
Meet under the Cow Sign, Elk Street Entrance to Glen Canyon Park (near Chenery Street)
RSVP: GlenParkHistory@gmail.com
Limit: 25 attendees
​
Going to No Kings Events? The No Kings March begins at Sue Bierman Park on the Embarcadero at 1:00 pm, so there will be plenty of time to get there. After our walk ends, walk 10 minutes to the Glen Park BART station. It's only a 10-minute ride to Embarcadero Station. To get to the Human Banner event at Ocean Beach, walk up Elk Street from the entrance of Glen Canyon Park to Bosworth. Take the 44-O'Shaughnessy inbound to the Richmond, then catch the 5-Fulton outbound at Fulton and 8th Avenue on the north edge of Golden Gate Park.
​
​Join Evelyn Rose, founder of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project, for this short and leisurely walk along a flat portion of Section 2 of the San Francisco Crosstown Trail through Glen Canyon Park where you will learn much about the canyon’s natural and cultural histories, from the Ramaytush Ohlone to the site of the first dynamite factory in America, and into the 20th century when women’s moxie saved the canyon several times over. After the walk concludes at its beginning, you can walk back to BART and nearby restaurants via Paradise and the Glen Park Greenway, where you’ll get a chance to view the extraordinary Burnside mural and tiled staircase.
Brutalist BART:
History of the Glen Park BART Station and the Site Where it Sits
Wed, October 29, 2025
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Glen Park Branch Library
2825 Diamond Street (between Chenery and Bosworth Streets
1/2-block from Glen Park BART Station
​
​The Glen Park BART Station, including the triangle-shaped lot upon which it sits, is geometric by design. Join Evelyn Rose, founder of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project, as she explores the 250+ years of transit history through Glen Park, revisits the neighborhood that once stood on the site that generated two major sports figures before World War II, spotlights the defining elements of the Brutalist architecture that defines the station's concrete edifice both inside and out, and chronicles the impact on Glen Park once the station opened in 1972.