Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The Berkeley Hills
Tilden Regional Park
PARK
This 2079-acre park, in the hills east of town, is Berkeley's crown jewel. It has more than
30 miles of trails of varying difficulty, from paved paths to hilly scrambles, including part
of the magnificent Bay Area Ridge Trail. There's also a miniature steam train ($3), a chil-
dren's farm, a wonderfully wild-looking botanical garden, an 18-hole
golf course
(510-848-7373) and environmental education center.
Lake Anza
is good for picnics, and
from spring through late fall you can swim ($3.50).
AC Transit bus 67 runs to the park on weekends and holidays from the downtown
BART station, but only stops at the entrances on weekdays.
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
GARDENS
child $10/2; 9am-5pm, closed 1st Tue each month)
With 34 acres and more than 12,000 species of plants in the Strawberry Canyon hills, the
garden is one of the most varied collections in the USA.
A fire trail is a woodsy walking loop around Strawberry Canyon that has great views of
town and the off-limits Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Enter at the trailhead at
the parking lot on Centennial Dr just southwest of the Botanical Garden; you'll emerge
near the Lawrence Hall of Science.
The garden can be reached via the Bear Transit shuttle H line.
Lawrence Hall of Science
SCIENCE CENTER
child 7-8/child 3-6 $12/9/6; 10am-5pm daily; )
Near Grizzly Peak Blvd, the science hall is named after Ernest Lawrence, who won the
Nobel Prize for his invention of the cyclotron particle accelerator. He was a key member
of the WWII Manhattan Project, and he's also the name behind the Lawrence Berkeley and
Lawrence Livermore laboratories. The Hall of Science has interactive exhibits for kids and
