Here now, a map of San Francisco's best secret gardens. On the map you'll find historic gardens being preserved on Alcatraz Island, a forest in the Tenderloin, a mini park rich with flowering foliage on an otherwise nondescript Sunnyside residential street, plus more.

Oh, and a slew of privately owned public open spaces (POPOS) in the FiDi and SoMa districts. We didn't include private gardens for obvious reasons and community gardens didn't make the cut because we found that the majority are often locked. Below, our favorite secret gardens in San Francisco. B

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