Visionary women in the community making significant contributions to the Park District. These women have leveraged their positions of power and influence in the East Bay to advance Park District's Mission and Vision, Their successes include the addition of invaluable parklands, increased habitat protection, and improvements to expand public access. They have also inspired a new generation of youth to take pride in public service and to care for the earth.
Walk up the paved road to the EBMUD water tank to see a dark basalt dike, a feeder of lava to the crater, that cuts through a sequence of tuff-breccias (grayish brown) and pebbly mudstones (light gray) inside and near the crater bottom.
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On Friday, August 18, 2023, the Park District celebrated the opening of the San Francisco Bay Trail Gap and Improvements Project at Oakland’s Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline.
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 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.
Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park – the largest remaining natural grove of coast redwoods in the East Bay – has joined the Old-Growth Forest Network dedicated to sharing the nation’s old-growth forests with the public. Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park is the 17th Forest in California to join the network and the first in Alameda County.