While East Bay Regional Park District environmental education centers, visitor centers, public bathrooms, water fountains and other amenities are closed through at least April 7 during the COVID-19 coronavirus response, the district’s 73 parks and its regional trails are open — but users must observe specific social distancing requirements, the park district said.
The facility closures are based on the “shelter-in-place” order by the health officers in 10 Bay Area counties, including Contra Costa and Alameda counties, where EBRPD operates, and by an emergency order from park
district General Manager Robert Doyle, for the health and safety of the public and our employees.
Outdoor activity in the parks and on the trails is allowed, including walking, hiking, and running. But following social distancing rules includes maintaining a distance of at least 6 feet between individuals, using
hand sanitizer, washing hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds each time, coughing into elbows and not hands and refraining from shaking hands.
Will we later find out Mosquitoes can carry this virus from person to person?
Don’t need a park to go for a walk.
Are you able to bart/bus back if you walked a long distance?
Or would you have to walk back also
Would you be able to take bus/bart back instead of walking
all the way back if you walked a long distance?
We took a walk. At a bottleneck a cyclist passes us within 2 feet. Are we going to die?
Probably, I mean surely. Was the cyclist breathing hard? Good, then they will likely die first 🙂 I was pretty amazed by the number of cyclists and walkers on the Iron Horse Trail near Walden Park. It was a beautiful day this morning. The city had put up a sign in the playground prohibiting access, next to the slides. Sure enough a future politician, say 5 years old, noticed that the swings were in a different area and started asking his mom if he could use the swings since the sign was “only for over there”. Gotta love ’em.
And speaking of kids, yesterday over by Larkey Park there was a cute pair of twin girls, matching jackets and wool hats. They might have been about 3 years old. As I rode up to pass them I thought, like, so cute. Then kid number one raised up her arm and clobbered her sister on the head. Crying ensued, of course. So much for cute.
I hope people are out enjoying this weather, like before we all die.
I’d like to resume cycling but I guess all those other people riding on my bike with me makes that a no-no.
We’re walking, just not on the trails. I enjoyed the trails when I was younger, and then wisely decided that walkers, cyclists, joggers, moms with strollers, dogs, the homeless, sex offenders, etc. really don’t need to be rolled into the same equation.
Is that allowed? Pleasant Hill PD is shaking people down for being outside just walking their dog. The claim is shelter in place means staying indoors.
Where is this happening? My neighbors are biking and walking around, keeping a good social distance of a minimum of 6 feet apart, and I have not seen any of them harassed. I have been out as well walking, down to the store for essentials, with no adverse response from the PHPD. When did this start?