Baker Beach

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Baker Beach with the Golden Gate Bridge as its backdrop.

Baker Beach is a state and national public beach on the Pacific Ocean coast, on the San Francisco peninsula. It is roughly 1/2 mile long, beginning just south of Golden Gate Point (where the Golden Gate Bridge connects to the San Francisco Peninsula), extending southward toward the Seacliff peninsula and the Palace of the Legion of Honor and the Sutro Baths.

Baker Beach is part of the Presidio, which was a military base from the founding of San Francisco by the Spanish in 1776 until 1997. When the Presidio was decommissioned as a U.S. Army base, it became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which is administered by the National Park Service.

Baker Beach was the original site of the Burning Man art festival. Its north end (nearest the Golden Gate Bridge) is a well-known nudist beach.

A shark attack happened on Baker Beach on May 7,1959, a crowded date on Baker Beach.[1] Albert Kogler Jr., 18 of age, was swimming in 15 feet of water. Then a Great White Shark took his life.[2] This is the only shark attack recorded on Baker Beach. This attack was very rare, because sharks like the Great White do not go into the San Francisco Bay. The only sharks in the San Francisco bay are bottom-dwellers, who do not attack humans.