On March 13, 2018, the East Bay Regional Park District received the Innovative Programming Award from the California Parks & Recreation Society Aquatic Section for its “Vamos a Aprender” (Let’s Go Learn) water safety program.
Get to know park fire rules, regulations, and warnings.
This a is a great time of year to enjoy the weather and discover beautiful places in East Bay Regional Parks.
A nearly completed restoration project is coming soon to Coyote Hills, expanding the park by approximately 25 percent. The Coyote Hills Restoration and Public Access Project (Patterson Ranch) was made possible by the largest ever land donation to the Park District and will provide public access and restore habitat on approximately 170 acres of parkland.
The East Bay Regional Park District and the Regional Parks Foundation have named U.S. Representative Mark DeSaulnier the 2023 Radke Championing Advocacy Award winner. Congressman DeSaulnier has been a long-time supporter and avid user of Park District parks and trails. In 2022, he was instrumental in securing $3 million in federal funding for the District’s planned visitor center at Thurgood Marshall Regional Park – Home of the Port Chicago 50.
Coast redwoods are tall! 380 feet is the height of the tallest known tree in the world, a redwood named Hyperion growing in Humboldt County. Before logging started in the mid-1800s, the East Bay had a redwood forest with huge trees. Ship captains sailing near the Golden Gate wrote about two redwoods at the top of a ridge in the Oakland hills that towered over others.
The East Bay Regional Park has been awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the District Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada for its annual comprehensive financial report for the 2021-2022 fiscal year.
• Briones Pilot Project Meeting, page 3 • Butterfly and Bird Festival, page 4 • Celebrating AAPI, page 5 • Black Birders Week, page 6 • Rise of the Dragonflies, page 7 • Campfire Programs, page 8 • Rail Fair, page 9 • 90th Anniversary Programs, page 11
The unique nature of the East Bay Regional Park District began in 1934 when, in the midst of the Depression, voters imposed a tax of 5¢ for every $100 of property owned to fund the creation of a Public Resources Code 5500 Special Park District in the East Bay.