Candlestick Park may be gone, but San Francisco 49ers and Giants fans haven't forgotten how they shivered in the cold at the windswept former stadium.

In fact, when baseball games went extra innings, fans who stayed received a special pin for braving the frigid weather. The Croix de Candlestick pins carried the motto, "Veni, vidi, vixi" — "I came, I saw, I survived."

Now California is inviting folks to pitch a tent and camp out at one of six designated sites opening Oct. 1 at Candlestick Point Recreation Area.

But don't let Candlestick's bone-chilling reputation scare you off from this oasis of nature within the city, says Patrick Marley Rump, executive director of the local nonprofit Literacy for Environmental Justice that helped build the sites with the help of a grant and California State Parks.

"Candlestick is more than a stadium," Rump says. "It's also a 3.2-mile shoreline park."

The sites are located on what's known as Sunset Point in a protected cove that receives less wind than other parts of the peninsula.

"These sites are pretty well sheltered and the best time of year to be out there is fall and winter," he says. "Having said that, there are going to be some days when it's windy out there."

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Candlestick Point State Recreation Area lies on the western shoreline of San Francisco Bay just south of where the stadium once stood. It received state park status in 1977.

The park offers an escape from the city's hustle and bustle with hiking trails, fishing, windsurfing, bird watching and now camping.

The new sites are a quarter-mile from the parking lot and campers need to hike or bike in, or they can also access the area by landing a kayak at Jack Rabbit Beach. Rump says it's one of the few spots where you can camp along the Bay Area Water Trail, a network of boat launching and landing sites around the bay.

The sites can be reserved for one to two nights and up to four people. Bathrooms with flush toilets are located near the sites; campfires aren't allowed. It costs $35 per night to camp.

Adeline Yee, a state parks spokesperson, attended a ribbon-cutting for the new campsites on Thursday—a day that proved the weather here can be gorgeous.

"It was hot," says Yee. "There was no wind hardly."

The project also involved making other updates to the park such as widening trails to make them ADA accessible and adding new interpretive signs explaining the history and ecology of the area.