Fort Funston
Unfinished History
Fort Funston with Lake Merced on its east and the Pacific Ocean to its west on July 1, 1940.
Photo: National Park Service
View east from Fort Funston towards Lake Merced, 2014.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Fort Funston's Battery Davis from east side, 2014. This is typical of the WWII-era gun emplacements that dot the coastal areas around San Francisco and are now mostly part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Fort Funston's Battery Davis from west side, 2014, once home to major artillery directed at repelling a Japanese invasion force during WWII that never materialized.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
View south along Pacific Coast from Fort Funston. Rocks leaving coast in distance are Mussel Rock, the point where the San Andrea Fault enters the Pacific Ocean.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Fort Funston is now best known as a premiere hang-gliding spot in the Bay Area.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Hang glider floats past Battery Davis at Fort Funston, 2014.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Fort Funston in the 1980s.
Photo: National Park Service
