![]() ![]() In an era when even modest hotel rooms can cost hundreds of dollars a night, supporters say the project will provide working-class families affordable, overnight vacation opportunities. It is one of the only public campgrounds to be built near the bay’s shoreline in decades, a situation driven in large part by high land prices, and a reluctance of some parks districts to construct new facilities that will require hiring more staff to maintain. The project on the north side of the Dumbarton Bridge in Alameda County will connect the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge with Coyote Hills Regional Park, a popular East Bay attraction visited by more than 600,000 hikers, bicyclists and outdoor lovers last year. ![]() On Friday, after 14 years of planning, negotiations and construction to fill the massive hole in the ground, the East Bay Regional Park District will open a campground replacing the former quarry with picnic areas, a playground, 200-seat amphitheater, restrooms, showers and trails. For years, the Dumbarton Quarry was a giant hole in the ground, a 320-foot deep gravel pit that produced rock used for half a century to build up San Francisco and Oakland’s airports, freeways, bridges and other building projects.īut now the former industrial site on San Francisco Bay’s waterfront in Fremont will build something new: Family memories and a love of the outdoors. ![]()
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