Trocadero, San Francisco, Historic roadhouse in Parkside District, San Francisco, US

Trocadero is a one-story wood building painted pale yellow with white trim, set in Sigmund Stern Grove. Its steep grey shingle roof has a central front-facing gable with an attic window and a square white cupola with a pointed finial at the ridge's right end. A full-width front porch is edged with a scalloped, pierced white frieze, and wide steps with red treads rise to it at center-right.

The building was constructed in 1892 as a rest stop for wealthy San Franciscans traveling to Lake Merced. It later served as a venue for gambling and dancing, attracting members of local high society.

The name Trocadero carried a connotation of stylish nighttime fun in San Francisco, and in the late 1970s and early 1980s the Trocadero Transfer was regarded as the best hard-core, largely gay disco on the West Coast. Today the building is the setting for the haunted house at the Recreation and Parks Department's Scaregrove Halloween Festival and for the seasonal Stern Grove Music Festival.

The Trocadero reopened in 2025 after a large eucalyptus tree fell on it on March 11, 2023, causing severe damage and flooding. It stands within Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove, where the seasonal Stern Grove Music Festival takes place and the Scaregrove Halloween Festival uses the building as its haunted house.

The Trocadero stands on land where the first Australian eucalyptus seeds in the area were sown around 1871, on George Greene's rancho. The building itself was hauled around Cape Horn and is reputed to be the first house built in San Francisco west of Twin Peaks.