ALERT CREATING QUARTERMASTER REACH: A NEW EXPERIENCE OF NATURE IN THE PRESIDIO SIX-MONTH PARTIAL MASON STREET CLOSURE AT CRISSY FIELD Fall 2019 to Spring / Summer 2020

Crissy Field Businesses are Open! (see map inside) EXPANDING MARSHLAND IN THE PRESIDIO AT QUARTERMASTER REACH

WHAT WHY WHEN We’re closing a section of Mason Visitors will enjoy an up close experience of nature Street at Crissy Field for six months along a new elevated bridge that winds through the to install open tunnels beneath. marshland. Native salt marsh and riparian plants grown December Winter Spring Spring/ This will allow fresh water to flow from at Presidio Nursery will create an extraordinary habitat for Project starts Landfill Bridge is Summer the Tennessee Hollow Watershed to frogs, fish, salamanders, and the newly reintroduced native and Mason removed and constructed Opening meet the salt water of Olympic oyster. Bring your binoculars – Quartermaster Street detour water tunnels and volunteers Day! Bay, creating a unique marshland at Reach will be the latest national park hotspot for birding. begins installed plant Quartermaster Reach. beneath thousands The bridge will complete the northern section of the Mason of native The project will bring an 850-foot Tennessee Hollow Trail. For the first time ever, visitors can Street seedlings length of long-buried stream back to the walk the entire 1.2 mile watershed from the bay at Crissy surface and dramatically transform an Field through the Presidio and up to the natural springs area long covered by asphalt. near Presidio Gate. www.presidio.gov/QMR PACIFIC

OCEAN GETTING AROUND TO FORT CRISSY FIELD BUSINESSES ARE OPEN POINT PEDESTRIANS ONLY TORPEDO WHARF DURING MASON STREET CLOSURE vehicles and bicycles can access the destinations BIKES + PEDESTRIANS and businesses at the west end of Crissy Field using the Halleck Street detour or N VEHICLES + BIKES 9 McDowell Avenue. Additionally, walkers and bicyclists can use detours immediately PRESIDIGO SHUTTLE CRISSY FIELD 0 500 FT 1,000 FT around the closure at Crissy Field. Please allow a few extra minutes for travel. ROUTE STOP 1. Sports Basement 5. Planet Granite 0 250 M FUTURE QUARTERMASTER REACH 2. Military Intelligence Service Historic 6. House of Air Learning Center 7. Roaring Mouse Cycles WEST BLUFF PICNIC AREA 3. Greater Farallones Visitor Center 8. La Petite Baleen / Batter’s Box SF www.presidio.gov/QMR 4. University of San Francisco 9. Warming Hut

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MCDOWELL AVE SAN FRANCISCO NATIONAL CEMETERY A long-held dream for connecting fresh water 103 Montgomery Street to an expanded salt marsh will be fulfilled San Francisco, CA 94129 in the next phase at Quartermaster Reach, where visitors will find inspiration walking a watershed trail from springs to bay, to witness “an incredible array of life finding a new home. QUESTIONS? Barbara Corff www.presidio.gov/QMR People for the Presidio/Parks [email protected] ” SUPPORTED BY • The David L. Davies Fund of the Weeden Foundation • The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund • SF International Airport Wetlands Mitigation Agreement • Environmental Protection Agency through the SF Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund

Illustrations by Zendarski Studios