Panhandle, Municipal park between Haight-Ashbury and Western Addition, San Francisco, US.

The Panhandle is a narrow public park in San Francisco, three-quarters of a mile long and one block wide, bordered by Fell and Oak Streets and split by Masonic Avenue. Two paved paths, one for bicycles, run its length, with basketball courts, a playground, an outdoor gym and a restroom between Stanyan and Masonic. The William McKinley Memorial, dedicated in 1904, stands at the eastern end.

William Hammond Hall first tested his plan for a large San Francisco park here in 1870, using the Panhandle as a laboratory for dune reclamation. He sowed barley, then sea bent grass with yellow lupin, and once the sand held, added Monterey pines, cypresses and eucalyptus. The park was later planted with hundreds of tree varieties from around the world.

The park emerged from community resistance to a freeway project in the 1960s and became a place for bicycle routes and outdoor gathering instead. This outcome shaped the neighborhood's character and reflects the area's values to this day.

Two paved paths run the full length of the park from east to west, one of them open to bicycles, and shorter paths cross it north to south. Masonic Avenue cuts through the middle, and the westernmost block is where Oak and Fell Streets angle across and converge. Restrooms, a playground, basketball courts and an outdoor gym sit in the western section between Stanyan and Masonic.

The Panhandle was William Hammond Hall's testing ground before Golden Gate Park: from 1870 he trialled barley, then sea bent grass with yellow lupin, to hold the dunes. Once stable, hundreds of tree varietals went in, among them Bailey's acacia, Japanese yew, black walnut, Queensland kauri and Italian alder.