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Allyne Park
Category: Active Life Parks Parks [Edit]
Gough and Green StSan Francisco, CA 94109
Neighborhood: Marina/Cow Hollow
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
15 reviews for Allyne Park
15 reviews in English
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Review from Lola L.
San Francisco, CA
3/27/2012
Love this place and the garden. Love that I can bring the dog here and have a cup of coffee on the bench.
Yes dogs are allowed but this is not a dog park! So for those of you who suggest have dog gates, read the SIGN and keep your dogs on leash. Be glad it's not a stinky or gross dog park. For those who live in the area, we love it and don't want to change it. -
Review from phil h.
Allyne Park is a hidden Oasis in the hustle and bustle of Cow Hollow. A block off Union Street but world's away, Allyne Park is the perfect spot to let your pooch run free. In addition to the larger grassy area there is also a great landscaped area with benches, flowers and huge trees. On sunny days the park is teeming with dogs, sunbathers and couples canoodling in the grass (I love a good canoodle)
Pop in to Blue Fog Market across the street for some Blue Bottle and some snacks, grab your blanket and enjoy one of San Francisco's hidden treasures! -
Review from Inigo M.
San Francisco, CA
2/5/2012
Hidden oasis.
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Review from Don G.
San Francisco, CA
4/21/2011
What a little oasis in Cow Hollow! My wife, dog, and I love relaxing here and meeting new people. It's a very, friendly atmosphere and well maintained.
I'd go here every day to simply de-stress. -
Review from Harry L.
San Francisco, CA
10/19/2011
This beautifully landscaped oasis is NOT a dog park.
Sorry.
Dogs MUST be on leash. It is illegal to let your pooch run free in Allyne Park. So if you want to do that, you have to do it someplace else.
Thank you for being a responsible dog owner. -
Review from chris g.
San Francisco, CA
8/16/2011
I used to love this park. I've been coming here for years.
The compact walking garden and welcoming lawn at the bottom of the park's gentle slope are perfect, especially if you come in the morning when the dew is still on the grass and you can enjoy the park with a cup of coffee and nothing but silence around you.
However, within the last year this place has become a full-on dog park. Despite signs being posted EVERYWHERE (every entrance, on posts, even nailed to trees) asking people to keep their dogs on leashes, it's now a free for all. It's now impossible to sit on a bench without a dog coming over to you and jumping up on you while the owner is nowhere to be seen.
I love dogs to no end, but if you own one in the Marina then take him to Crissy Field or up near Danielle Steele's house. As usual, it's not the dog's fault (or the park's) but idiot, entitled owners' who either can't read the signs or don't care about anyone else. -
Review from tiffinie t.
San Francisco, CA
11/4/2007 2 Check-ins Here
People are absolutely fetish about their dogs.
They buy special food for them. Dress them in doggie couture. They walk them by two's and three's or carry them in purses. Send them to doggie day care, and let them holiday at doggie hotels! They decorate them in doggie bling and take them to the finest doggie groomers.
And today, as I walked by the teeny, tiny Allyne Park, near Cow Hollow, I got to see a group of dog lovers hold a special party for teeny-weeny silky terriers. Imagine if you will, silky terriers playing games in their sassy outfits with other silky terriers! Their owners obsessively beaming at their cuteness! Compulsively cheering on their antics! Doggie bows and doggie bling frantically flouncing about the adorable fenced-off park!
Like a car wreck, I stopped to gawk.
All that doggie dress up stuff was kind of weird, but I really love that sweet little park. It seems like the perfect place to rest and read and laze about on a warm autumn day. ((sigh)) Sadly, today was not that day... -
Review from Valerie N.
San Francisco, CA
8/29/2011 1 Check-in Here
a hidden dog park?
a great place to relax and let your pooches free. -
Review from Anny P.
San Francisco, CA
10/1/2011 15 Check-ins Here
Little piece of paradise in Cow Hollow. The Mutt loves it!
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Review from Bill P.
Oakland, CA
9/27/2008
The windows were down and my hair was blowing in the wind.
I closed my eyes, and smelled what seemed a thousand scents,
My heart beat faster knowing fun was just around the corner.
I made my way to the park as fast as I could get there hoping I could say hi to my friends.
I entered the park and it had to be the gate to heaven
Green grass, a cool breeze and new faces to meet
I ran around the entire park area like an animal turned loose. A few trees, nice shaded areas and even benches!
I must have been out of shape because before I knew it, I was having fun and out of breath
i didn't waste anytime saying hi to others in the park and before I knew it I had friends
In fact I felt so comfortable, I decided to piss straight on the grass, 5 times mind you!
Now although the toilet wasn't like the one at home, I just couldn't hold it anymore and crapped right on the lawn! No one seemed too mad at me when I did it so I just resumed having fun.
I sniffed around here and there and some other losers thought they owned the park
I showed them I was the new boss in town and made sure this territory was marked as mine.
After about an hour or so I was very tired and took a nap on the cool grass until my sister woke me up. Damn her!
So I'm riding back home now, dreaming about my new favorite place, Allyne Park.
Mom and dad simply can't appreciate it as much as I can.
My name is Sammi ... I'm a Yorkshire Terrier -
Review from Ryan W.
San Francisco, CA
12/8/2006 5 photos
Well, this place is so small (.735 acres) its not even shown on most maps (or listed on Yelp - until now)...which is sort of its charm. If you're in Cow Hollow and need a place to mellow out from all the yuppie boutique nonsense on Union St., this spot is the place to go.
Tucked away behind some trees, it's not super-obvious from Gough. But inside is a nice, small lawn and a little garden-type sitch with some flowers and other shubbery. Benches to sit on as well.
Check out the Octagon house on next door on Gough. Wow - trippy...
Besides the size, the drawbacks are that the tall trees block most sun and its a meeting point for everyone in the neighborhood who owns those little yapping terrier dogs. (Again, it's not that I dislike dogs perse...I just don't like yours).Listed in: Best Parks
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Review from Amaryllia L.
San Francisco, CA
7/19/2011
Just moved here from the East Coast last Wednesday and came to this cute little park for a puppy meetup over the weekend. It's an adorable and well-maintained park! There's plenty of glass, trees, sun, and shade for everyone to enjoy and all the dog owners are responsible with cleaning up (at least I assumed so since I didn't notice any obvious "piles"). My only issue is that the park is small and has 2 open entrances where my dogs could accidentally wander out and onto the streets. It seems like it would be easy to install short gates and not detract from the park at all but for now I'll have to keep looking for a fully-enclosed park for my dogs.
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Review from Lia B.
San Francisco, CA
10/31/2009
I get hugely sentimental over this park. It's where I had my first romp as a toddler, it's where I had my first Easter egg hunt, it's where my dog had his first dog-in, and it's where we (my dog and I) continue to chill. Have you ever taken in all the foliage in this park? And get a hold of those redwood trees...yes, redwoods! Where else will you find redwoods in Cow Hollow/Marina?? Only at Allyne.
As I said, I get hugely sentimental over this park... -
Review from Nilu r.
San Francisco, CA
3/5/2008
Sunny little park near my work where can sit in the sun and look at the hummingbirds fight over territory. Sometimes a dog will walk up to me when I am eating lunch and beg for food. I love those days.
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Review from Alexandra D.
San Francisco, CA
3/19/2010
It's a sweet park. tiny, but a great place to sit and chill in the middle of the big city.
I have a personal history with this park. I grew up a block from here on Green Street between Octavia and Laguna. When I was little, I went to elementary school a block on the other side of Allyne - so I walked past it on my way home from school. Back then, I believe two spinster sisters (last name Allyne) lived there in a big Victorian house in the middle of what is now the big green meadow. When they died, they left it to the City to be turned into a park. My friends and I would sneak in and peek through the windows of the empty house. There was also a small greenhouse. Back then, there were lots more trees on the grounds. You couldn't see from one corner of the park to the other, like you can now.
Once it was turned into a park, the structures were torn down, creating the meadow, but they left the trees. It was so overgrown with trees that you could play hide-and-go-seek and REALLY hide. We would have neighborhood parties there. But then over the years, they thinned the trees, possibly to keep homeless people from camping there as San Francisco became a mecca for the homeless. It lost something for me when they did that.
I've always had dogs in San Francisco - and still live in the neighborhood so I bring my dog here occasionally. A few years ago the then-gardener got annoyed with the damage the dogs were doing to the grass, so she had the gates taken off. Bummer. Though I could see her point, it made it not quite so safe for doggies who are not under the best voice control.
I wish I could find out the names of the old sisters who left this little gem to the City. we should put up a plaque in their memory, bless them.
[edited 2/23/12 to add information about the Allyne sisters:]
I was curious to see if I could find some info about the Allyne sisters on the web, so I did some googling and found their names here: http://www.verlang.com... Their names were Lucy H. and Edith W. Allyne, and interestingly they also owned the lot where the Octagon House is now located, and donated that lot so the Octagon House could be moved to its present site.
Once I found their names, I could google their full names rather than just "Allyne sisters" as I had been doing, and that yields a lot more info!
http://www.askart.com/...
"Born in San Francisco, CA on Sept. 24, 1873. Lucy Allyne was a member of a wealthy, pioneer family. She was born in the family mansion at 2609 Gough Street and lived there all her life. During the 1890s she painted watercolors and was a pupil of L. P. Latimer whose influence is seen in her work. Many of her turn-of-the-century landscapes are of Marin County. A spinster, she died on June 19, 1963. Her estate is now a public park."
{it would be nice to have a party there on 6/19/2013 to commemorate her gift on the 50th anniversary of her death!}
More info: http://goarticles.com/...
"Just uphill is the "Treasure House of Gough Street," the former Victorian home of the octogenarian sisters, Edith and Lucy Allyne, who never lived anywhere else. Granddaughters of pioneer Ephraim W. Burr, onetime mayor of San Francisco, the sisters inherited a $3 million fortune and the house, built in 1871, from their father. Part of its fittings include an Oriental porcelain urn once used as a watering trough for Captain Allyne's cow."
Searching for info on their grandfather Ephraim W. Burr, he has a wikipedia entry with a link to a page that gives information about Edith and Lucy's father, who married Ephraim's daughter:
"John Winslow Allyne was born April 18, 1841 in Brewster Massachusetts to Samuel Hinkley Allyne and Sophronia Winslow. Ten days after his birth, his mother died.
In 1859, at age 18, JWA, with his father, came around the Horn to California on the ship Memmon. They were later joined by other members of his family.
For some time, JWA was a clerk in the Stanford Brothers store. His sister, Helen, had married Josiah Stanford in 1861. Then in 1870-, JWA became the successor of that store with William H. White. These partners, Allyne and White, had the first finery store in North Beach, and also made the first successful experiments with black oil in its use on railroad car axles. This invention was put to use on the old Central Pacific Railroad and began their fortunes in business in San Francisco. Much of the proceeds from the oil business was invested in real estate in San Francisco and New York.
JWA married Mary Newell Burr on September 20, 1871 in the Unitarian Church of San Francisco. She was the daughter of Ephraim Willard Burr and Abbie Miller Child and was born at Warren Rhode, Island on May 11, 1844.
JWA died at his home on Gough and Green Streets, San Francisco, on December 4, 1901. Mary died in San Francisco on September 13, 1921."
