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Encyclopedia > Aquatic Park (Berkeley)

Aquatic Park is a public park in Berkeley, California, located just east of the Eastshore Freeway (Interstate 80) between Ashby and University Avenues. The park was created in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration, simultaneous with its work on the nearby Berkeley Yacht Harbor. Its centerpiece is an artificial mile-long lagoon cut off from San Francisco Bay when a causeway for the Eastshore Highway was created in the 1930s in conjunction with the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge approaches. The lagoon still communicates with the Bay through culverts under the freeway. The east shoreline of the lagoon represents what used to be the original shoreline of San Francisco Bay. Aquatic Park features picnic areas, a pedestrian-bicycle path, and a disc golf course. In the past, the park was the site of water skiing contests. The ski ramp is still visible in the middle of the lagoon. A public boathouse for kayaking still operates. An Australian park A park is any of a number of geographic features. ... Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve. ... Interstate 80 (abbreviated I-80) is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States. ... Route across the United States Interstate 80 (abbreviated I-80) is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States. ... WPA Graphic The Works Progress Administration (later Works Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created in May 1935 by Presidential order (Congress funded it annually but did not set it up). ... The Berkeley Marina is the westernmost portion of the city of Berkeley, California, located west of Interstate 80, the Eastshore Freeway at the foot of University Avenue on San Francisco Bay. ... This mid bay barrier in Narrabeen, a suburb of Sydney (Australia), has blocked what used to be a bay to form a lagoon. ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining of approximately forty percent of California, flowing in Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ... The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (, ; known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a toll bridge which spans the San Francisco Bay and links the Californian cities of Oakland and San Francisco in the United States. ... A culvert is a flowing body of water which passes underneath a road, railway, or embankment, or the part thereof that does so. ... A player throwing his disc toward a metal basket target. ... Recreational skiiers typically use two skis — other techniques abound. ... Two whitewater kayakers running the Numbers section of the Arkansas River. ...



 
 

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