The Briones Pilot Project is a two-year pilot program to test strategies in addressing trail congestion, trail safety, and illegal bootleg trails, which have negative impacts on wildlife, including sensitive and endangered species.
April 25 Wildcat Bike Trail Project Community Meeting – The Park District has identified a conceptual trail corridor that minimizes impacts to wildlife and habitat based on preliminary resource surveys. Studies and feedback from the community will be used to further develop a trail project that benefits the park experience for all.
The Park District and Regional Parks Foundation recognized State Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan with the 2022 Radke Championing Advocacy Award at a ceremony at Inspiration Point in Tilden Regional Park on March 3, 2023. Bauer-Kahan was instrumental in securing $4 million for restoration at McCosker Creek in Robert Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve in Orinda and $3.5 million for wildfire protection equipment.
The East Bay Regional Park District, the largest local park agency in the nation, is turning 85 in 2019!
On October 24, 2021, the Park District was awarded the Global Citizen Award by the United Nations Association USA, East Bay and Silicon Valley Chapters at the virtual 76th UN Day celebration.
Pioneering women who have been a contributing force to Park District's creation and success.
In August 1935, Company 2940-C, a segregated camp of 182 young African Americans from California, was stationed at what is today known as Kennedy Grove for the SP-7 project. In the years to come, they created many of the roads and park features we enjoy today in Tilden Regional Park, Wildcat Canyon, San Pablo Reservoir, and Kennedy Grove, including the Tilden Golf Course. Yet, the reality is that at the time Company 2940-C was often the target of discrimination from the communities that they served.