The weekend's record-breaking warm weather brought scores of people and piles of garbage to Dolores Park in San Francisco's Mission District. Despite the sloppy mess captured in some of the images above, San Francisco's Recreation and Parks Department says the trash problem is improving.

On Saturday and Sunday, the party crowd spread out their blankets and beach chairs, covering nearly every square foot of grass. They had a blast doing hula-hoop tricks and partner yoga, walking slack lines tied between the palm trees, dancing to the sounds of bongo drums, uncorking bottles of champagne and chasing around their dogs.

As you might expect, in the evening, trash was strewn across the grass and piled up at the recycling receptacles on the park grounds and the garbage cans around its parameters. When I walked the park at 6 a.m. on Monday, the scene still resembled the aftermath of a fraternity party.

The clean-up crew was just arriving and faced with the weekend revelers' detritus—plastic keg cups, paper plates, pizza boxes and empty bottles of expensive champagne and craft beer, many of them broken, their tiny shards spread across the pathways. There were also a remarkable number of paper Bi-Rite grocery bags filled with the wrappings from $10 sandwiches, empty bags of hand-cut potato chips and the remains of all sorts of other gourmet picnic supplies.

Garbage has been a never-ending battle between Dolores Park sun-worshippers and San Francisco's Recreation and Park Department tasked with cleaning the area. As the population in the city has increased, the crowds have as well, and eventually led to the $20.5 million renovation the park so desperately needed.

Dolores fully re-opened in late January of this year and given that the park is estimated to hold up to 10,000 people at a time, it's no surprise that an explosion of trash was left after a bout of epic weather. But was the aftermath as bad as it has been on past big weekends?

Rec and Park thinks park-goers are beginning to pack out their garbage and put their recyclables in the proper receptacles. On my walk this morning, I noticed the south side was less littered than in the past, such as on last year's Gay Pride weekend, while mountains of garbage still covered the north.

"In general, the trash situation has improved," Rec and Park spokesperson Joey Kahn said. "While there are still tough weekends, compared to the old park (before the renovation), it is improving."

Kahn thinks things are getting better for two main reasons. One, he believes the infrastructure added in the renovation is better serving the crowds. "Twenty-seven new toilets, up from four," he pointed out. "Recycling capacity has increased from 1344 gallons weekly to nearly 28,000 gallons; landfill capacity has increased by over 20,000 gallons weekly. This is in addition to the eco pop up which returned this weekend after a successful pilot in 2015. It's a triple-sorting staffed facility for park users to compost, recycle, and throw away their trash. Last year, it diverted more than 68 percent of waste to compost and recycling. Previously, it would have gone to landfill."

Secondly, Kahn added the Love Dolores campaign, founded in Leave No Trace principles, has been educating the public about responsible park stewardship within Dolores Park. "They have been working with the local merchants, the community, and other organizations to curb the trash problem," he said.

Kahn added: "It's hard to believe that we have to convince adults to pick up after themselves. Park users should be able to pack out their trash. If they can pack it in, they can pack it out."