Healthy Parks Healthy People (HPHP) is a worldwide campaign. The campaign encourages healthy active fun in the outdoors while appreciating and taking care of our parks and open space areas.
The East Bay Regional Park District and the Regional Parks Foundation recognized U.S. Representative Mark DeSaulnier on December 8, 2023, with the 2023 Radke Championing Advocacy Award at a ceremony along the Iron Horse Trail in Walnut Creek.
Park District has been selected to receive $1.4 million from the California Natural Resources Agency’s Urban Greening Grant Program for its Bay Trail Gap Closure Project in Martinez, which would close a half-mile gap in the Bay Trail between Carquinez Strait Regional Shoreline and Radke Martinez Shoreline near the Martinez Intermodal Station.
The Park District has been notified that it will receive a $7 million grant from the California Coastal Conservancy for the purchase of the 768-acre Finley Road Ranch property located at the mouth of Riggs Canyon off Finley Road at the western edge of Morgan Territory Regional Preserve and the southern edge of Mount Diablo State Park.
The East Bay Regional Park District is celebrating Juneteenth with a Free Park Day on Sunday, June 18, 2023. While the Juneteenth holiday is on Monday, June 19, the District’s Free Park Day is on Sunday, June 18, to serve more visitors.
Due to expected storm conditions and high winds, all East Bay Regional Parks are closed Wednesday, January 4, 2023, through Thursday, January 5, 2023. The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch and high wind warning for the San Francisco Bay Area.
The public is invited to an Open House to update the community on the Keller Beach Park Improvement Project on October 14, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Improvements to Keller Beach were included in the 2019 Miller/Knox Land Use Plan Amendment approved by the Park District Board of Directors.
The developed recreation area at Radke Martinez Shoreline Park will be closed from Tuesday, September 5, through November 2023, for irrigation replacement work. Closed facilities include the parking lot, restrooms, playgrounds, and picnic areas.
Firefighter training burn at Point Pinole Regional Shoreline Scheduled Wednesday, September 6, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
For the past 54 years, the Land and Water Conservation Fund has provided funding for the conservation of natural, historical and cultural resources with no dependence on taxpayers.