Presidio Pet Cemetery

A hidden treasure of touring San Francisco.

This place does exist! Was created for military families who had pets while The Presidio was an active US military base and needed a place to bury their deceased pets. There are tombstones. Looks like the last time a pet was buried here was early 1980s.

A stumbled across this hidden gem after hiking through the national cemetery which had been fenced off and looks like there was a construction project going on around it. Quite a bit of care had been taken to preserve the cemetery which was a really bittersweet reminder of how much we love our fury friends.

The historic Presidio Pet Cemetery is fenced off and locked up during the construction of the highway overhead, but at least they left it in place. Hopefully, they will eventually reopen it and build safe sidewalk access so people can visit again.

There isn't much to see, but the only fact this place exists is interesting. Apparently it had no "official" existence, but the city made the decision to save it (and protect it) during the Golden Gate Bridge access road construction in 2013.