Lone Mountain is a neighborhood and a historic hill in west-central San Francisco, California.

It is the present site of the northern half of the University of San Francisco's main campus.

[5] After decades of litigation and public debate, the gravesite remains were all moved, primarily to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in the city of Colma, immediately south of San Francisco.

In what writer Harold Gilliam described as "an act of civic vandalism", thousands of crypts and mausoleums were unearthed, the granite and marble dumped along the Pacific shoreline to reinforce seawalls.

[7] Lone Mountain College (formerly Sacred Heart Academy and San Francisco College for Women) was founded in 1898, and changed leadership and ownership many times before becoming part of USF in 1978.