San Francisco still has one of the best city park systems in the country, according to the latest national rankings released this week by a park advocacy nonprofit.

The ParkScore index by the nonprofit Trust for Public Land ranked San Francisco sixth in the nation among the 100 most populous U.S. cities, the same as last year’s rankings. Washington, D.C., had the highest ParkScore, while Irvine in Southern California finished second.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.