The Presidio’s “Great Experiment” and the Impact of COVID-19 on America’s Only Independent National Park

By Meghan Hall When the Presidio Trust was established in the mid-1990s, it was labeled as an unprecedented experiment, one that would oversee the nation’s first—and to date only—fully independent national park. Over the past several decades The Presidio has operated on its own, without any government funding or federal assistance, relying on its own […]