Golden Gate Cemetery, Former cemetery in San Francisco, United States

Golden Gate Cemetery, also known as City Cemetery and Potter's Field, was a burial ground that once covered about 200 acres in San Francisco. Today, the site is occupied by Lincoln Park and the Legion of Honor museum, and a stone gateway with a worn inscription panel still stands in a grassy field.

Golden Gate Cemetery opened in 1870 and received thousands of remains moved from the older Yerba Buena Cemetery. Burials stopped in 1898, and by 1909 the land was transferred to the parks department, later becoming a golf course and the site of the Legion of Honor museum.

The Chinese inscription on the gateway remembers the cemetery as a temporary resting place for travelers from Kong Chow, now Guangzhou, following the custom of returning bones to their homeland. This small monument is one of the few visible traces of the many immigrant communities who buried their dead here.

The area is now a public park with a golf course and a museum, so visitors can walk around freely during open hours. The stone gateway and other markers are best reached on foot, and the terrain is uneven in places, so wear comfortable shoes.

In 1993, during renovation work near the museum, workers found 700 bodies, and many more are thought to still lie beneath the golf course. The site was designated the city's first archaeological landmark in 2022, with a new sign to mark its history.