Fort Scott Field at the Presidio

I was there and now I’m not

Presidio Habitats has /​had an art installation here… basically funky looking chairs waist deep in grass. You are meant to sit, ponder, and observe our feathered friends. It was a surreal, unexpected experience. I didn’t think it would be profound to any extent. Very cool.

Some of my friends play flag football here and every now and then when im out jogging, I pass through.
The field is perfect for baseball, soccer and flag football. There’s another grassy area outside the actual gated field with trees and a path to walk your dog. Off to the side are bathrooms and a soda vending machine. There’s a decent parking lot adjacent to the field. Although I will say, the abandoned building off to the side is kinda creepy come night time. Don’t get lost in the one way streets or you’ll be driving around all night (no joke).
Not my first choice as far as fields are concerned but it makes my job more interesting.

I play here with a league for some co-​ed softball action. Well we attempt to play when people show up. It is a great location for a team, nice fog rolling in and visually pretty sweet (bridge views). However, bad conditions… holes in the outfield and pitching mound sucks (eh and I suck at pitching too!). I can see some local weekend non league fun happening there though. And the bathrooms are pretty clean, which is actually sweet, better than most bars in the city and prob better than mine on a bad day.

During the day, the field is a decent place to practice football (well, soccer) but the pitch could definitely be better maintained. However, at night, this place is a headache and will definitely give you an absolute horror flick feeling as you drive through the winding roads to this tucked away playing field. It doesn’t help that the military cemetery is about a mile away. Trust me, I’ve actually gotten lost at night and it’s not fun, my friends.
Overall, it’s a field that seems the most available for teams playing for the SF Soccer League and its very private so you can actually focus on training.

A couple of the non-​city softball leagues play their games here. It’s a an amazing locale to play softball in as the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge looms behind home plate of the north field. The Pacific Ocean is quite close as well of course and this makes the playing conditions potentially as harrowing as playing at Candlestick. The nights when the fog rolls in often create games of high comedy. I’ve seen the fog be so dense that outfielders have trouble seeing home plate, and the games feature batter after batter lobbing the fly balls to the outfield that have no chance of being caught. Infielders are left trying to direct the outfielders to the general direction that the ball will land.
The south field used to be the most frightening field I’ve ever played on as a shortstop. Up until a couple years ago there was no dirt infield. It was all torn up grass with tons of divots that created bad hops on about half the sharply hit balls that are hit to you. They finally put in a dirt infield about a year ago, so it’s a lot better now.