SF Rec & Parks Bids Fond Farewell to Giant Cypress That Had to Be Taken Down In Golden Gate Park

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/30/sf-rec-parks-bids-fond-farewell-to-giant-cypress-that-had-to-be-taken-down-in-golden-gate-park/"Farewell to the giant!" says San Francisco's Rec & Parks Department, after announcing the demise of a 100-year-old, 90-foot cypress tree in Hellman Hollow, the enormous trunk of which had recently split, creating a dangerous situation. "Tomorrow we say goodbye to an old friend, a 90-ft cypress on the eastern edge of Hellman Hollow, whose towering trunk finally split after standing strong for more than a century," the department says in a Facebook post. "From the Roaring 20s to the Summer of Love to this month’s Hardly Strictly, its branches shaded generations of San Franciscans."A photo showing the split in the trunk, via SF Re