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Open Space

 Exploring San Jose’s Growing Trail Network

Exploring San Jose’s Growing Trail Network

December 1, 2022

On a sunny Sunday in late October, I took my e-bike on BART from El Cerrito to the Berryessa station to explore parts of San Jose’s 63-mile trail network. Sixty-three miles of trails? In [...]

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 Activating Schoolyards for Communities

Activating Schoolyards for Communities

June 21, 2022

On a bright Saturday afternoon in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood, Will Portillo grabbed a soccer ball and his kids, Moses, 10, and Michael, 2, and walked them one block to Paul [...]

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 Pleasures and Perils of Mushrooming in the Bay Area

Pleasures and Perils of Mushrooming in the Bay Area

May 10, 2022

Debbie Viess is dreaming of morels, delicate wild mushrooms that pop up as the cool of winter yields to the warmth of spring. Her favorite recipe for morels when they’re tiny and tender is [...]

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 Circumambulating the Little Hill

Circumambulating the Little Hill

April 5, 2022

From the 338-foot summit of Albany Hill, Margot Cunnigham surveys sweeping vistas of the Golden Gate, Oakland, the East Bay hills, Mt. Tamalpais, and beyond. “So many people don’t know about this [...]

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 Smoothing the Way for New Pedestrian Paths

Smoothing the Way for New Pedestrian Paths

March 15, 2022

Charlie Bowen had no idea that a network of walking paths wound through the Berkeley hills until she went to her first Berkeley Path Wanderers Association meeting more than two decades ago. Steep [...]

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 Ridge To Ridge: Circumnavigating the Ridge Trail

Ridge To Ridge: Circumnavigating the Ridge Trail

January 25, 2022

When William Penn Mott Jr. looked out at the Bay Area landscape, he saw more than discrete ranges of hills separated by river valleys and tidal basins. He saw a connection: a single trail that [...]

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 Should We Use Open Space to Help Solve the Housing Crisis?

Should We Use Open Space to Help Solve the Housing Crisis?

October 25, 2021

Update: The public hearing for the future of Point Molate has been postponed from November 2021 to spring of 2022. Nearly 25 years ago, the U.S. Navy transferred more than 400 acres on Point [...]

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 Just Go: The Role of Restrooms in Park Equity

Just Go: The Role of Restrooms in Park Equity

September 27, 2021

“Restrooms are critical infrastructure,” says Jim O’Connor, assistant general manager of operations at East Bay Regional Park District. A hiker, a mom with kids, a mountain biker riding a long [...]

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 One Step, One Sunday at a Time

One Step, One Sunday at a Time

August 9, 2021

A small group of women, average age sixty, recently walked the entire San Francisco Bay Trail, including the unfinished portions. They finished where they started in Emeryville after a four-year, [...]

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 Coming Together for Bay Area Open Space

Coming Together for Bay Area Open Space

June 1, 2021

Together Bay Area has emerged from its chrysalis, and if its Spring Summit 2021 is indicative of its future, the organization is well-poised to lend cohesion and support to its 69 member groups [...]

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