Picnic, hike, camp, fish, ride a bike, ride a horse, and explore nature at a Regional Park in the San Francisco East Bay area. The Regional Parks offers an extraordinary range of volunteer opportunities, from trail maintenance to helping kids learn to fish to being trail guides for the vision impaired.
An important part of the East Bay Regional Park District's mission is to ensure the preservation of the natural beauty of the land on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay, and to protect habitat for wildlife, including many rare and endangered species.
The East Bay Regional Park District has 59 parks and 29 regional interpark trails covering more than 91,000 acres in Alameda and Contra Costa counties on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay. EBRPD manages:
92,000 acres (50,000 in Alameda County; 42,000 in Contra Costa County)
59 regional parks, recreation areas, wilderness, shorelines, preserves and land bank areas
29 regional inter-park trails
1,000 miles of trails within parklands
10 freshwater swimming areas, boating and/or stocked fishing lakes and lagoons and a disabled accessible swimming pool
40 fishing docks; 3 bay fishing piers
235 family campsites; 42 youth camping areas
2 golf courses
2,082 family picnic tables
1,707 reservable group picnic tables
9 interpretive and education centers
18 childrens' play areas
Wedding, meeting and banquet facilities
90 percent of the District's lands are protected and operated as natural parklands. |
