Two weeks after thousands of people flocked to Golden Gate Park for Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, work has begun to help the park, itself, recover from the event.
Turning meadows into concert venues is no small venture.
"There's lots of people, there's heavy structures, there's machinery, there's trucks driving things in and out, so it takes a toll on the grass, especially damaging the roots," Tamara Barak Aparton, spokesperson for the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, told KCBS Radio.
Now that Outside Lands is done and it's been several days since our most recent rain showers, it’s time to start restoring Lindley Meadow, Marx Meadow and the Polo Fields to their pre-festival conditions, she said.
The department may have a difficult time, however, as the atmospheric river that hit San Francisco days before the big event did not help the park's damage. "Was there a greater impact this year? Yes. Was it as bad as it could have been? Absolutely not because we prepared for the storm and we took measures to mitigate some of the damage," Aparton said.
Ultimately, parks are resilient. San Francisco residents won't feel too amiss due to the closures as the meadows in Polo Fields are closed every year around this time for reseeding anyway.
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