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The Merced Heights Park with Two Names: Lakeview and Ashton Mini Park/Orizaba Shields Rocky Outcrop

Name: Lakeview and Ashton Mini Park Neighborhood: Merced Heights Elevation: 515 feet March 5, 2017 In our quest to climb all the hills in San Francisco, Brett and I took a five-mile walk one-way walk to reach a few San Francisco neighborhoods I'd never visited, including Merced Heights and Ingleside, and Westwood Highlands. We're still trying to determine what counts as its own hill and what is a foothill of another larger hill. This led us to explore a bunch of hills, only two of which will actually remain on our work-in-progress final list . This post is about one of th es e two hills, situated in what's called Lakeview and Ashton Mini Park or Orizaba Shields Rock Outcrop Park , a small 0.5-acre natural area situated a top a Franciscan sandstone knob. Though this is the tallest point in the area, it stand s just 25 feet a bove the rest of the n eighborhood. As we visited in the rainy season, the shor t trails to the top were surrounded by lush, green