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Lake Chabot Regional Park is a regional park located in the southern Berkeley Hills in Alameda County, California. It was opened to the public on June 18, 1966, as part of the East Bay Regional Parks system.
Anthony Chabot Regional Park and Lake Chabot Regional Park offer a number of activities including family and group camping, hiking, equestrian trails, bicycle trails, nature study, picnicking, golf, fishing, boat rental, a marina, a restaurant and boat tours of the lake.
Camping is a major activity in the park with a 75-campsite family campground and seven group camps. Anthony Chabot Family Campground is open year round and features 53 drive-to tent campsites, 10 walk-to tent campsites, and 12 RV/trailer campsites. Some campsites offer views overlooking Lake Chabot. The park's seven group campsites are for ...
The founders of the district included Robert Sibley, a hiking enthusiast, Hollis Thompson, then Berkeley City Manager, and Charles Lee Tilden, among others. [5] William Penn Mott Jr. served as director of the agency from 1962 to 1967, and oversaw a doubling of the system's acreage from 10,500 to 22,000.
Opened August 19, 2000, the Chabot Space & Science Center is an 86,000-square-foot (8,000 m 2), state-of-the-art science and technology education facility on a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) site in the hills of Oakland, California, adjoining the western boundary of Redwood Regional Park.
The community forest is managed by local organizations and is used for timber harvest, cultural activities, recreation and more.
In 1874 work began on Lake Chabot Dam and it was completed in 1875, forming a 315-acre (127 ha) lake. Lake Chabot serves as a standby emergency water supply but was opened to limited recreation in the 1960s. [10] Four miles upstream, a second dam built in 1926 formed San Leandro Reservoir.
Lake Chabot (/ ʃ ə ˈ b oʊ /) is a small man-made lake in Vallejo, California, United States. The lake was built in 1871 and served as a water source for Vallejo until the city approved their own municipal water system in 1892. [2] Dan Foley Park provides recreational access to the south side of the lake. [3]