Photo: Save The Bay

More than 40 years ago, Save The Bay fought to save the East Bay shoreline from Bay fill and development and to create a park along the Bay. Now, Eastshore State Park, California’s newest state park, encompasses 8.5 miles of East Bay shoreline. Spectacular vistas of San Francisco Bay, islands, mountains, and the Golden Gate are just a few reasons to visit this shoreline. Plans for the park include refuges for birds in two habitat preserves, a restored creek mouth wetland, an upland meadow, and many places for people to experience and appreciate the Bay and its habitats.

Save The Bay, in partnership with Friends of Five Creeks, is working to restore a section of Schoolhouse Creek within the new park. Restoration of Schoolhouse Creek is part of the new movement to "daylight" urban waterways from pipes and culverts, restoring habitat for plants and animals as well as the quality of freshwater flows to San Francisco Bay. The creek daylighting project will include opportunities for volunteers.