Mount Sutro

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Mount Sutro (elevation: 909 ft. / 277 meters) is a hill in San Francisco, California USA, that was once named Mount Parnassus. It was renamed to honor Adolph Sutro, the 24th mayor of San Francisco. The property is part of the parcel originally granted to the university by Sutro to build a campus that later became UCSF. Most of Mount Sutro remains private property owned by University of California, San Francisco. Unmarked trails leading up to the forested summit on the mountain are open to visitors, but there are no views from the top. In 2004 the mountain summit was landscaped to provide walking trails through wildflower beds. Best access to the summit is off of Clarendon Avenue into the UCSF housing complex called Aldea San Miguel, and following the paved road to the left all the way up to the top. Another access to the mountain summit can be obtained by ascending Warren Drive from 7th Avenue on the west side of the mountain, climbing the 355-step public staircase from Warren Drive to Crestmont Drive (known as Oakhurst Way on the map), turning left at the top and entering the forest where Crestmont makes a sharp right.

Mount Sutro is located in central San Francisco, near the Twin Peaks. The Sutro Tower, a large television and radio broadcasting tower, which provides San Francisco Bay Area residents a wide variety of entertainment channels including KQED, stands on a lower hill between Twin Peaks and Mount Sutro. Mount Sutro is covered by a eucalyptus forest planted in the late 19th century. Victorian houses crowd the lower hillsides of the mountain.