Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve
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Missing image ClaremontView.jpg View over UC Berkeley and the Marin Headlands from Claremont Canyon |
Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve is a small regional park mainly located in the city of Berkeley, California, and administered by the East Bay Regional Park District.
Despite its small size of 83 hectares (205 acres), Claremont Canyon forms an important link in the chain of parks that line the East Bay hills. It rises from a height of about 100 m above sea level, just behind the Clark Kerr campus of the University of California, Berkeley to the 400 m ridge of the East Bay hills, linking by way of other conserved land belonging to the University and the East Bay Municipal Utilities District to other parks such as Tilden Regional Park and Sibley Regional Park. It thus offers direct pedestrian access to the park system, with connections to public transport, from the lower-lying residential areas of Berkeley and Oakland.
The steep path up to the ridge gives splendid views across the cities of Berkeley and Oakland, and beyond to the San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco; on clear days, especially in winter, the Farallon Islands, about 70km away, can be seen beyond the Golden Gate.