Mori Point

Mori Point is a 110-acre (0.4 km2) park located in Pacifica, California, that is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA).

The ponds and wetlands of Mori Point serve as habitat for the threatened California red-legged frog and the endangered San Francisco garter snake.

[3] An archaeological survey in 1969 revealed a shell midden at Mori Point, demonstrating pre-Columbian Native American residency.

[8] Limestone from the Rockaway Quarry were used as track ballast for the Ocean Shore Railroad and to rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.

[4] Highway 1, which divides Mori Point from Sweeney Ridge, occupies a cut first intended to accommodate the Ocean Shore Railroad.

Ray was arrested in 1929 for serving alcoholic drinks[11] at the Francisco Sanchez Adobe, which was operated as a restaurant on the surface and clandestinely as a speakeasy and bordello.

The group "Pacificans for Mori Point" filed suit to block the development, charging the environmental impact report was incomplete.

[14] In the Fall of 2007, the Mori Point Project, made up of staff from the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and volunteers, completed the removal of soil contaminated with diesel fuel, the creation of a new pond and wetlands area and a new path with access steps nicknamed "Bootlegger's Steps" up to the top of Mori Point bluff.

Fishing village on the Pacific coast. Photographed by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration (1938)
Dead sperm whale on beach below Mori Point (April 2015)