Berkeley Hills Revisited

The 2019 local sightseeing season got to an earlier-than-expected start thanks to my January visit to Walnut Creek.  It also had a later-than-expected finish.  I had planned on wrapping things up with my visit to Palo Alto and Stanford University.  But you may recall that due to transportation issues in the afternoon of Day 2, my friend Kevin and I missed out on some of what we wanted to see at Tilden Regional Park atop of the Berkeley Hills.  So we made a plan to return to the Berkeley Hills later in the year.

Tilden Nature Area

The objective of our return to the Berkeley Hills was to see the Little Farm, located in the Tilden Nature Area part of Tilden Regional Park.  I normally insist on taking public transportation on my sightseeing excursions.  But as we had already done the public transportation thing in the Berkeley Hills and this was an ad hoc return visit, I was perfectly fine with Kevin driving across the Bay Bridge and up into the hills.

Little Farm

The Red Barn was built in 1955 for educational purposes.  Additional facilities were added over time, creating the Little Farm, a working farm up in the Berkeley Hills.

Environmental Education Center

Next door to the Little Farm at the Tilden Nature Area is the Environmental Education Center.  The EEC has exhibits on the Wildcat Creek Watershed.

I thought that this was going to be the end of the local sightseeing, but I couldn’t resist doing a little more in 2022.  But next I’ll be stepping back in time in 2019 for an out-of-town (but-not-too-far-out-of-town) sightseeing trip I took between Day 3 and Day 4.

[Factual information is primarily gathered from Wikipedia, so you know it must be true.]