The Giant Panda has certain behavioral adaptations that help it survive. Every year the giant panda migrates down the mountain to stay warm during winter. When threatened, a Giant Panda will bow its head and growl to ward of predators. A Giant Panda communicates by honks snorts and whistles.
The commission had run the restaurant since the park opened in 1991, but decided to turn it over to a vendor in an effort to save money. In December 2010, Treat America opened a fine dining restaurant at the park called The Lodge Steakhouse at Mahoney.
In 1906, the earthquake and fire turned the park into a temporary haven for approximately 200,000 people left homeless by the disaster. By 1967, as the hippies were flocking to the Haight Ashbury in the Summer of Love, John F. Kennedy Drive, the main road in Golden Gate Park, was closed to all car traffic on Sundays. It was the closing of this road to traffic would one day lead to the biggest explosion of skating anyone could ever imagine.