Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park

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7867 Redwood Road
Oakland, CA 94619
(888) 327-2757
www.ebparks.org/parks/reinhardt-redwood

On Redwood Road, just a few miles over the ridge from downtown Oakland, is a hidden redwood forest whose peaceful groves give little evidence of its bustling past. In the mid-1800s, what is now Redwood Regional Park was the scene of extensive logging to supply building materials for the San Francisco Bay Area.

The logging era has long since passed, and a stately forest of 150-foot coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) has replaced those cut down.

Rainbow trout were first identified here in 1855. The park is also the site of the Blossom Rock Navigation Trees, used by mariners to avoid colliding with the treacherous submerged Blossom Rock, in San Francisco Bay, west of Yerba Buena Island. The original trees were logged sometime before 1855, but the trees located there today sprouted from their stumps.