The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/07/sfs-china-beach-reopens-amid-government-shutdown-because-someone-did-a-gofundme/Here’s one way to take matters into your own hands when the federal government is shut down, as one frequent swimmer at SF’s China Beach saw the beach was closed for the shutdown, so he simply GoFundMe’d up the money to reopen it. With the federal government currently shut down (now for 38 days and counting), there are many National Park facilities that are closed during the shutdown. One of those is China Beach in San Francisco’s Sea Cliff neighborhood, as it is part of the national park known as the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.   Or rather, China Beach was closed. It’s not anymore, as KTVU reports that a group of swimmers who freque

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