San Francisco Bay Discovery SiteSan Francisco Bay Discovery Site

On November 4, 1769 the expedition of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolá reached the summit of the 1,200-foot (370 m) high Sweeney Ridge, where he sighted San Francisco Bay. It is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Photo: Panegyrics of Granovetter from Lincoln, NE, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Bay_Discovery_Site_vista_(2009).jpg)