Stow Lake Boathouse, Historic boathouse in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, United States.

Stow Lake Boathouse is a boat rental facility in Golden Gate Park where you can rent pedal boats and rowboats to explore the lake. The building also houses a small cafe serving drinks and snacks for visitors to enjoy while resting.

The first Strawberry Lake Boathouse, designed by Arthur Page Brown, was built in 1893 for the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894. A fire destroyed it in 1937, and it was rebuilt between 1946 and 1949 to designs by Warren C. Perry in an alpine chalet style, the first building erected in Golden Gate Park after World War II. In 2024 the boathouse and lake were renamed Blue Heron Lake.

The boathouse has rented boats since 1893, when it was called the Strawberry Lake Boathouse. Calvin V. Tilden first leased it in 1943, and his family ran it until 2011, when the city evicted them. A protest led by Suzanne Renee Dumont and the Save Stow Lake Boathouse Coalition pushed the city to keep the building's old-fashioned character.

You can rent boats during daylight hours without making a reservation in advance. The location is easy to reach on foot once you are in the park, and the shoreline is accessible for all visitors.

The lake was renamed Blue Heron Lake in 2024, dropping the name of William W. Stow, a former Speaker of the California State Assembly, because of his anti-Semitic views. The new name refers to the herons that nest by the water.