Looking northeast from "Inspiration Point" in Tilden, March 2006

Tilden Regional Park (also known simply as "Tilden") is a regional park in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (3504x2336, 4087 KB) Summary View from Inspiration Point in Tilden Park, March 19th 2006. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (3504x2336, 4087 KB) Summary View from Inspiration Point in Tilden Park, March 19th 2006. ... Regional park or sometimes Metropolitan park (Metro park) is a term used in the United States for an area of land preserved on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, or other reason, and under the administration of a regional park board rather than the National Park Service, a state... A satellite image of the East Bay The East Bay is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States and is comprised of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. ... USGS satellite photo of the San Francisco Bay Area. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Counties/Parishes/Boroughs, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

Tilden was named in honor of Charles Lee Tilden, a Bay Area attorney and businessman who purchased much of the land in order to preserve remaining wilderness areas for public enjoyment, and who served on the first Board of Directors of the East Bay Regional Park District. Charles Lee Tilden (1857-1950) was an attorney and businessman in the San Francisco Bay Area who served on the first Board of Directors of the East Bay Regional Park District. ...

The park is managed by the East Bay Regional Park District, created from the first land the district purchased in 1936. Although it is largely located within unincorporated areas of Contra Costa County, for almost the whole of its length it borders on Berkeley, defining the eastern limit of the city. Although not particularly large (about 5 x 1 km, or 3 x 3/4 miles), it is a very important, and accessible, recreation area for Berkeley and the other municipalities of the East Bay. An AC Transit bus from the Berkeley BART station runs into the park on weekends. Its steep valleys and dense stands of timber mean that the closeness of the city is rarely obvious, while its high ridges and peaks give wide views over the San Francisco Bay and inland across other preserved land to Mount Diablo. The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) is a public authority operating in Alameda County and Contra Costa County, California, within the East Bay area of the San Francisco Bay Area. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Official website: http://www. ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ... AC Transit (in full, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District) is a regional bus agency serving parts of Alameda County and Contra Costa County in the western coastal area of the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. ... Downtown Berkeley Station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located on Shattuck Avenue, between Allston Way and Center Street in downtown Berkeley, California. ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ... Mount Diablo State Park is a state park in California, USA. View of Mt. ...

View west from Tilden Park

The park contains numerous trails, providing facilities for hiking, horseback riding and bicycling. In addition to major areas of wilderness, the park includes attractions such as a model farm, an environmental educational building, a golf course, miniature steam trains and the Regional Parks Botanic Garden. Also noteworthy is its old-fashioned Tilden Park Merry-Go-Round, a true antique (one of the few left in the US.) Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 959 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 959 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... “Footpath” redirects here. ... Two hikers in the Mount Hood National Forest Eagle Creek hiking Hiking is a form of walking, undertaken with the specific purpose of exploring and enjoying the scenery. ... horse, see Horse (disambiguation). ... Offroad cycling is a sport where bicycles (and unicycles!) are ridden outside of standard grounds, for example on narrow mountain trails. ... The environmental movement (a term that sometimes includes the conservation and green movements) is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement. ... This article is about the sport of golf. ... Great Western Railway No. ... The Regional Parks Botanic Garden is a 10 acre (40,000 m²) botanical garden located in Tilden Regional Park in the Berkeley Hills, east of Berkeley, California, USA. It showcases California native plants, and is open to the public in daylight hours every day of the year except New Year... The Tilden Park Merry-Go-Round is a carousel located in Tilden Park in Berkeley, California. ...

Nimitz Way Entrance at Inspiration Point

One trail of note is Nimitz Way, a four mile long paved trail (named after Admiral Chester W. Nimitz) that begins at Inspiration Point on the eastern edge of the park and heads north along the ridge of the hills, crossing into Wildcat Canyon Regional Park about two miles in and ending at a peak above El Sobrante. Nimitz Way is very popular with hikers, runners and bicyclists because it is relatively easy (paved, not very steep) and you have excellent views of the San Francisco Bay to the west and EBMUD’s San Pablo & Briones Reservoirs and Mt. Diablo to the east. Unknown to most of the folks who travel this trail, the two mile section that is in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park was a Nike missile base which was decommissioned in the 1970s. Today there are few signs of the missile silos and military housing that used to populate these hills. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 442 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Author: fizbin Source: fizbins crappy camera I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 442 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Author: fizbin Source: fizbins crappy camera I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Chester William Nimitz (February 24, 1885 – February 20, 1966) was the Commander in Chief of Pacific Forces for the United States and Allied forces during World War II. He was the United States leading authority on submarines, as well as Chief of the Navys Bureau of Navigation in 1939. ... Park Map Wildcat Canyon Regional Park, or simply Wildcat Canyon, is a 2,428 East Bay Regional Parks District park mostly in Richmond, California. ... El Sobrante is a census-designated place located in Contra Costa County, California. ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ... The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) provides water and sewage treatment for customers in Alameda County and portions of Contra Costa County in California, on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay. ... San Pablo Reservoir The San Pablo Reservoir is an open cut terminal water storage reservoir owned and operated by the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). ... Briones Reservoir Briones Reservoir is an open cut terminal water storage reservoir owned and operated by the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). ... Mount Diablo State Park is a state park in California, USA. View of Mt. ... Park Map Wildcat Canyon Regional Park, or simply Wildcat Canyon, is a 2,428 East Bay Regional Parks District park mostly in Richmond, California. ... Launch of a Nike Zeus missile Project Nike was a US Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Labs, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. ...

Lake Anza

Much of Tilden is situated in the upper stretches of Wildcat Canyon which is also the location of Lake Anza. Lake Anza is about 40 meters long, and the water is somewhat clear. The lake is a good place to go swimming as well as other activities. Jewel Lake, smaller than Anza, is accessible only by trail. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 434 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Author: fizbin Source: fizbins crappy camera I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 434 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Author: fizbin Source: fizbins crappy camera I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Wildcat Canyon is a narrow linear valley just east of the Berkeley Hills in the San Francisco Bay Area, situated in Contra Costa County. ...

Inside Tilden Park

The eastern limit of the park is, approximately, the crest of the San Pablo Ridge while the western boundary nearly follows the crest of the Berkeley Hills. The East Bay Skyline National Trail runs just inside the park. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 532 pixelsFull resolution (3008 × 2000 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 532 pixelsFull resolution (3008 × 2000 pixel, file size: 2. ... The Berkeley Hills are a range of the Pacific Coast Ranges which overlook the northeast side of the valley in which San Francisco Bay is situated. ...

Parts of the park land had been cleared for agricultural use, and in places exotic trees (especially Eucalyptus) have been planted. There are some relatively recently planted stands of Giant Sequoia. However, current conservation efforts are aimed at restoring native vegetation so far as possible, and significant parts of the park are covered in native coastal scrub. natural range Species About 700; see the List of Eucalyptus species Eucalyptus (From Greek, eu + καλύπτω = True Cap) is a diverse genus of trees (and a few shrubs), the members of which dominate the tree flora of Australia. ... Binomial name Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl. ...

During the 1930s, a WPA camp was sited in Tilden Park. WPA is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings: Washington Project for the Arts, an arts organization based in Washington, D.C. Walter Payton Award, in U.S. Division I-AA football War Powers Act, a U.S. federal law, also known as the Trading with the Enemy Act and...

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External links

• EBRPD's park info page
• Tilden Park map Oakland Convention and Visitors Bureau