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Battery East Trail to Cemetery Overlook

3/2/2015

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Just to the east of the bridge, all the Battery East Trail is walkable again, including the small picnic area down the short but steep slope and the low-overhead tunnel (pix 1 thru 6). Concerned about this unique little tunnel because of all the ongoing park changes.  

Continuing onto the paved walkway that curves around to the stairway: 7 thru 11.

153 steps for the Battery East Trail’s wood steps down to the west edge of Crissy field, the Warming Hut, and the road to Fort Point: 12 thru 16.


Up the stairs again and onto the trail between two vehicle streets that takes one from the Battery East Trail viewplaces out to Crissy Field Overlook: 17, 18, 19, 20.

Crossing the footbridge (pic 21), down alongside the stables (no hosses seen this time), and up the meandering Park Trail (22 thru 26) to climb the 98 wood steps that wind thru the forest to the Cemetery Overlook. 


Stairs up from Park Trail to the overlook: 27 thru 36.


Trailhead for the east trail from the overlook to the Post Chapel, last pic.
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1. Straight ahead and down to the picnic tables
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2. Picnic area and steps down to the low overhead tunnel
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3. No longer blocked off
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4. Continue on the trail
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5. Earthworks built into the bluffs
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6. Part of the Fort Point National Historic Site
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7. Starting the paved part of the Battery East Trail
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8. Also a popular spot to view the Blue Angels
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9. Vast views from the Battery East Trail
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10. It winds around
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11. Nothing in the way
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12. Top of the stairs down to Crissy Field and Fort Point
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13. 153 steps
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14. Looking back
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15. Torpedo Wharf fishing pier near Warming Hut
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16. Foot of the stairs
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17. Back at the top of the steps now, a left turn
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18. Side of the stairway
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19. Trail between two vehicle streets
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20. Love this trail
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21. Footbridge; stables and Park Trail ahead
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22. East side of Fort Scott neighborhood in distance thru the trees
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23. Park Trail up ahead
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24. Park Trail leads to Cemetery Overlook steps
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25. Park Trail curves around
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26. Gradual uphilling thru the forest
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27. Foot of the steps
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28. Park Trail to Nat'l Cemetery Overlook
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29. Stairway winding through the woods
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30. Peaceful forest beauty
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31. The cemetery is to the left
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32. 98 steps
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33. Cemetery Overlook and stairs completed in 2009
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34. Looking back down
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35. Top of the steps at the Overlook
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36. Presidio trails are well-signed
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37. This trail heads east to the chapel with stairs down to the Main Post
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