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Anthony Chabot Regional Park is a regional park in Oakland, Alameda County, California in the United States. It is part of the East Bay Regional Park District system, and covers 5,067 acres (2,051 ha) in the San Leandro Hills adjacent to Oakland, San Leandro and Castro Valley. Popular activities include hiking, cycling and horseback riding.
It was opened to the public on June 18, 1966, as part of the East Bay Regional Parks system. [1] Lake Chabot is a reservoir located in the park. [1] The northern part of the lake and park lie within the boundary of the city of Oakland, while the southern part lies in an unincorporated area of Alameda County adjacent to Castro Valley and San ...
In 2016, Vargas Plateau Regional Park in Fremont was the first park ever to have been shut down as the result of legal action in the more than 80-year history of EBRPD. [8] During 2014, EBRPD cut park hours on a temporary and interim basis to reduce public access to Mission Peak in Fremont, using a media strategy designed by political ...
Chabot Park — 3.39 acres (13,700 m 2) — 6850 Chabot Road, Oakland, CA 94618; Channel Park — 4.49 acres (18,200 m 2) ... Leona Canyon Regional Open Space Preserve;
Anthony Chabot (/ ʃ ə ˈ b oʊ /; August 13, 1813 – January 6, 1888) was a nineteenth-century businessman and entrepreneur, notable for his contribution to developing hydraulic mining and for building water systems, especially in the Bay Area, so much that he became known as the "Water King".
Chabot Space and Science Center has three observatory telescopes, all of which are open to the public on weekends. "Leah" is an 8" refractor telescope built in 1883 by Alvan Clark & Sons and donated by Anthony Chabot. [6] "Rachel" is a 20" refractor telescope (28 ft focal length), commissioned in 1914 from Warner & Swasey, with optics by John ...
At Lake Chabot in Anthony Chabot Regional Park it is joined by Grass Valley Creek, then descends to San Leandro Bay. [4] The Redwood Creek tributary is protected by Redwood Regional Park, which contains the largest remaining natural stand of coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) found in the East Bay. [5]
The lake received its name from the stream which is its source, Temescal Creek, which was dammed in 1868 to create a reservoir to provide drinking water for the greater East Bay area, pumped by the Contra Costa Water Company, owned by Anthony Chabot. Prior to being dammed, Lake Temescal was a sag pond, a depression caused by the Hayward Fault.