East Bay Canyons
2
Bags of
Trash
311
Days Since Last Untrash
0
Bags This Week
Description
This project includes the East Bay Canyons. This project overlaps with East Bay Creeks, but is focused on the cleaning the land. The canyons above Berkeley, include:
Strawberry Canyon
Dwight/Derby Canyon
Claremont Canyon
Above Oakland, this includes
Upper Broadway, Merriewood and Temescal Lake
Thornhill Dr / Montclair / Upper Temescal Creek
Shepherd Canyon
Joaquin Miller
Leona Heights
The Strawberry Canyon and Derby work is led by John Stenzel. We are grateful for support from UC Berkeley Facility Services for trash pickup.
Results
Over 31 cleanups, we've removed 299 bags of trash.
This work is led by John Stenzel.
Top Untrashers
Name
Sessions
Bags
Hours
Name
Sessions
Bags
Hours
Berkeley-Oakland
Strawberry Canyon
Strawberry Canyon along Centennial Road to Grizzly Peak, including Tightwad Hill, and the Lawrence Hall of Science parking areas.
Oakland
Upper Broadway, Merriewood and Temescal Lake
This canyon is the headwaters of Temescal Creek, this Spot includes
the North Oakland Regional Sports Center (aka Caldecott Field)
the Temescal Lake recreation area
Broadway from the Highway 24 on-ramp until it dead-ends where the highway tunnel starts.
Berkeley-Oakland
Dwight/Derby Canyon
Canyon at the top of Dwight Way.
Oakland
Palo Seco Canyon: Joaquin Miller & Park Blvd
This project includes the roads adjacent the Palo Seco Canyon from the hills down, at the top this includes Joaquin Miller Rd and the adjacent parkland areas.
Where the canyon crosses Mountain Blvd, is the Palos Colorados Trailhead and slightly downstream, the Bridgeview Trail at Monterey Blvd.
Below Hwy 24, is the length of Park Blvd, down to the area around Leimert Bridge, and then further on, the El Centro Trailhead.
Berkeley-Oakland
Claremont (Harwood) Canyon
The stretch of Claremont Ave from Ashby up to Grizzly Peak, running ‘behind’ the Claremont Hotel.
Harwood Creek which runs through this canyon is part of the Temescal Creek drainage.