Golden Gate Park

Golden Gate Park is a large park in the city of San Francisco on Earth. The park is 1,017 acres, or 4.1 km², in size, and is shaped like a large rectangle.

After traveling back in time to 1986, then Admiral James T. Kirk directed Commander Sulu to land their captured Klingon ship HMS Bounty in the park. As it was early in the morning, the park was deserted except for a pair of sanitation workers who were almost knocked over by the blasts of air from the cloaked ship as she landed. These workers watched in horror as a trash can was mashed flat and the ground was pushed in several inches. The two then saw the ship's gantry opening and people stepping out. One of the workers insisted that neither one of them saw anything as they fled the scene.

Until their departure, the park served as the base of operations for the crew of the late USS Enterprise (NCC-1701). As the Bounty was cloaked, it was largely unnoticed by people in the park. However one of the sanitation workers, convinced that something odd was going on spent a large amount of time staking out the site, hoping to see further evidence of the strange goings on at the park. (TOS novelization of Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country).