Due to the drought and unusually warm weather conditions, toxic blooms of cyanobacteria blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) and other water-quality issues are occurring more frequently in the East Bay Regional Park District and elsewhere. We monitor our lakes and shorelines regularly and post warnings and closures when appropriate.
Kennedy Grove Regional Recreation Area offers a comfortable setting for either small or large group picnics (some by reservation) or informal gatherings of friends and families.
Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, the East Bay Regional Park District is honoring one of its earliest champions of parks and open space by renaming Redwood Regional Park after Aurelia Reinhardt.
As Robert Doyle retires at the end of December 2020 after 47 years at the East Bay Regional Park District, including ten years at the helm as General Manager, he leaves a legacy that will benefit the lives of East Bay residents into perpetuity.
For the biking enthusiast, the East Bay Regional Park District has everything from paved flat paths passing by schools, business and shopping centers, parks and other recreation areas to remote backcountry trails for more advanced mountain bikers. Many of the East Bay Regional Park District's 1,330 miles of trails are open to bikes. Bikes are allowed on most multi-use (wide) trails and prohibited on most narrow trails. See Bicycle Loop Brochures.
A mid-Century waterfront venue with views of the San Leandro Bay and East Bay Hills located at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline.
Bay Point Regional Shoreline provides access to undeveloped open space and marsh habitat in an area surrounded by residential, military, and industrial development.
August to October is calving season for Bay Area cattle ranchers whose animals graze in the Regional Parks.