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Image of coastal bluffs and Golden Gate Bridge

Coastal Bluffs

Image of coastal bluffs overlooking Marin Headlands
Douglas iris on the coastal bluffs looking north
towards the Marin Headlands.

Beaches and rocky shoreline lie at the base of the coastal bluffs, while their tops provide expansive views of the Pacific coastline. The Coastal Trail extends along the wind-swept coastal bluffs, where some of the most intact natural habitat in the Presidio harbors rare plants adapted to serpentine soil and cool foggy conditions. Gun batteries built in the 1890s for coastal defense and abandoned after World War II are scattered along the bluffs. A World War II memorial to soldiers lost at sea overlooks the area.
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