[1] The park is served by several San Francisco Municipal Railway bus lines.

[2] Alta Plaza consists of four square blocks at the top of Pacific Heights and overlooks much of San Francisco's Marina and Cow Hollow Districts, the Presidio, Fort Mason and Alcatraz.

The plaza provides three hard surface tennis courts and a small playground in its center and has a large grass park on its northern half and terraced lawns on it southern half.

[3] The steps at Alta Plaza are featured in the 1972 film What's Up, Doc?.

They were used without permission and were badly damaged during filming of the signature chase scene (in which a Volkswagen Beetle, a Yellow Cab, a black Cadillac Fleetwood limousine and a Cadillac DeVille Convertible all clumsily speed down the steps), and the damage can still be seen today.