There are many gardens throughout Golden Gate park and the largest one is the San Francisco Botanical Garden. The entire 55 acres of the garden is made up of smaller gardens reflecting over 7,500 plant species found worldwide. Almost every plant has a small sign near it stating its name and origin. Therefore, a trip to the San Francisco Botanical Garden is an aesthetic and education one. Picnic tables and benches are found sporadically all over the garden. This garden is wheelchair friendly and costs nothing to enter. Directly to the right when you come through the main gate are wheelchair accessible public restrooms.

There are all kinds of walkways all over the park, depending on how much you would like to explore. The main areas are paved for a smooth ride for a wheelchair user. There are a could parts of the park that have slight inclines (above middle photo), which makes for a good little workout. In the prehistoric garden the walkway is wooden planks (below middle, right photo) and is no trouble at all to roll over. Once you go off the main pathway to explore into the gardens deeper then the ground could be made up finely packed granite (above left, bottom left and right photo) or very thin pieces of tan bark (above left photo). Either way, both ground make-ups are wheelchair accessible, even for manual chairs, however, rolling over them does require a little muscle and balance.