Jerry Garcia Amphitheater

The Jerry Garcia Amphitheater is an outdoor concert venue located in McLaren Park in San Francisco, California, opened in 1971. Its maximum capacity is 1,200 people.

Type: Theater building
Description: outdoor concert venue
Also known as: “Jerry Garcia Amphitheatre” and “Jerry Garcia Memorial Amphitheater”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include John McLaren Park and Portola Branch Library.

John McLaren Park

Park

Photo: Allan Ferguson, CC BY 2.0.

John McLaren Park is a park in southeastern San Francisco. At 313.7 acres, McLaren Park is the fourth largest park in San Francisco by area, after Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, and Lake Merced Park.

Portola Branch Library

Library

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Portola Branch Library is situated 4,000 feet northeast of Jerry Garcia Amphitheater.

Visitacion Valley Branch Library

Library

Photo: JD Lasica, CC BY 2.0.

Visitacion Valley Branch Library is situated 4,000 feet southeast of Jerry Garcia Amphitheater.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Visitacion Valley and Southeast San Francisco.

Visitacion Valley

Quarter

Photo: Kasuga, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Visitacion Valley, colloquially referred to as Viz Valley, is a neighborhood located in the southeastern quadrant of San Francisco, California. Visitacion Valley is roughly defined by McLaren Park and Gleneagles Golf Course to the West, Mansell Blvd and Portola to the north, Bayview Hill and Candlestick Cove to the east, and the San Francisco / San Mateo County line to the south.

Southeast San Francisco

Photo: Eric Fredericks, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Southeast San Francisco is made up of several mostly residential neighborhoods of San Francisco bounded on the north and west by I-280, the 101 highway, and 16th Street, the east by the San Francisco Bay, and on the south by the city limits.