From K-QED.

It's Golden Gate Park Week on Vacurious.

We're saddled up for a six-part series that corresponds with a fabulous walking tour

that I hope you will take once all these episodes are out.

Stick around at the end of the show for more details on that.

Now I'll admit, I partly wanted to do this series because when I first moved to the Bay Area I lived a few blocks

from Golden Gate Park and I didn't have any friends for a while so I spent a lot of

time wandering around and checking out all its nooks and crannies.

I love this park because it has so many little worlds within it.

On one end you have the stately Dutch windmills looming overhead.

We'll be talking more about those very soon.

Then at the other end you have disco beats blaring from a boom box

and people are roller skating, showing off their best moves.

But perhaps the most unexpected thing that you will find in this park is a herd of bison. These quiet lumbering giants were named the United States

official mammal by President Obama in 2016. But their history in the park and in the West goes

way further back of course and that's what we're learning about today. So sit back and

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Bison hauled a unique place in Golden Gate Park history as reporter Jessica Plachke found out.

She pulled on her work boots and headed to the paddock for the story.

They're the largest mammals in North America.

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