Aquatic Park
Aquatic Park was built in 1939 as a public bathing club between Hyde Street Pier and Fort Mason in San Francisco Bay, California, United States of America. It is located within San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park and is itself a National Historic Landmark. The district includes a beach, bathhouse, municipal pier, restrooms, concessions stand, stadia, and two speaker towers as well as the National Maritime Museum, Ghirardelli Square and the cable car turntable on the San Francisco Bay waterfront in San Francisco, California, United States.
The park includes an extremely popular, but cold, area to do recreational and competitive open water swimming.
In front of the Maritime Museum is a man-made lagoon on the site of the former Black Point Cove. To the west is the horseshoe shaped Municipal Pier. The lagoon is fronted by a sandy beach and a stepped concrete seawall. To the south is a grassy area known as Victorian Park which contains the Hyde Street cable car turnaround. Hyde Street Pier, though part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, is not part of Aquatic Park Historic District. Every single day of the year, members of the Dolphin Club and South End Rowing Club and their visitors swim in this world-renowned lagoon and well-kept beach.
A swim within Aquatic Park is called a Round Trip Flag (RTF) swim.
24-hour Relay Swim
Aquatic Park is also site of a 4-person 24-hour relay on 8-9 February 2014 organized by Suzie Dods called the 24 Hour Swim Relay in SF inspired by the 24 Heures La Tuque relay.
World's Best Open Water Swimming Towns
Aquatic Park in San Francisco was selected as one of the World's Best Open Water Swimming Towns by the World Open Water Swimming Association in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
External links
- Quinn Fitzgerald's Unexpected World Title
- Try Try Again After DNF (Did Not Fail)
- Double English Channel Attempt
- Taking The Dolphin Club To The Next Level
- The Iconic West Coast Training Ground
- Michael and Mackenzie Miller Talk Channel Swimming On WOWSA Live
- Catherine Breed Talks About Curves And Texture On WOWSA Live
- The Forever Swim Virtual Book Launch
- David Smith Talking Purity Of Purpose On WOWSA Live
- Simon Dominguez, Mauricio Prieto, Antonio Argüelles On Open Water Friday
- Simon Dominguez With Antonio Argüelles On Open Water Friday
- Antonio Argüelles Wins 2017 World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year Award
- 3 Years In The Making With Zach Margolis]
- Since Jacques Tuset's Last Escapes Around The World
- Ryan Utsmi Rises To The Occasion
- Swimming From Alcatraz For The First Time
- Back And Forth In The Bay
- World's Top 100 Island Swims For 2019
- Differences In Ocean Access Throughout California
- The Streets Of San Francisco
- Cold Water, Warm Drinks
- Open Water Swimming 365 Days Of 2020
- The Beauty Of Swimming In San Francisco
- World's Best Beach & Open Water Swimming Towns
- Two Generations, Before And After
- Zach Margolis Swimming In Style
- Will Records Fall Around The Rock?
- 25 Years Later, 15 Seconds Short
- Alex Kostich Wins Swim Around The Rock
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- Open Water - It's A Small World On A Big Planet
- Open Water Swimming
- Marathon Swimming
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Old Goats Can Lead In Open Water
- Old Goats Teaching New Tricks
- Old Goats Of San Francisco Takes To Water
- Old Goats Of Aquatic Park
- Old Goats Of The Dolphin Club
- Old Goats Experienced In The Bay
- San Francisco Bay And Aquatic Park Are Hard To Beat
- What Goes Around Comes Around
- 100 New Year's Resolutions For Open Water Swimmers
- Dods Does Distance - Swimming 24 Hours In San Francisco
- It's Where I Am Home
- The Octad Of Open Water - Prison Island Swims
- Marathon Swimmers Federation To Test Stinger Suits
- Competing In The Hallowed Waterways Of La Jolla
- A Quarter Century Later, Bob Placak vs. Trent Grimsey
- Are You 80 Years Old? Wanna Appear In A Movie?
- The Sea Monkey Challenge Is A Year-round Commitment
- Veteran Quartet Talks About The 24 Hour Swim Relay
- They Swim To Look Within Themselves
- Up All Day And All Night In Aquatic Park
- Where Were These Seawater Pools?
- The Joys And Challenges Of The Open Water
- Historic Aquatic Park May Be Lost To Commercial Interests
- Aquatic Park Update
- The Look Of The Open Water
- 24 Hours Of Swimming In 4 Minutes
- 24 Hour Swim Relay In San Francisco
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- The Relative Consistency Of Swimming Around The Clock
- Smiling In The Bay
- The California Open Water Swimming Oasis
- Mina Rhoden Completes A Widthwise Lake Tahoe Crossing
- Making The Jump Into The Open Water
- Mina Rhoden Forging An Open Water Path
- Quienes Sueñan y Construyen, The Life Of Antonio Argüelles
- 80 Swimmers From 9 To 9
- South Padre Island, One Of The Best Beaches In America
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Open Water Swimming
