Due to extreme fire activity, park districts and watershed managers shut down Mount Diablo State Park, the Los Vaqueros Watershed and 66 East Bay parks, bringing the total this week to roughly 100 recreation destinations in the region shut down by fire.
“For your health and safety, avoid visiting Regional Parks at this time,” read an alert posted by East Bay Regional Park District.
These destinations join Lake Berryessa, Big Basin Redwoods State Park and 20 other parks and preserves closed by fire activity, smoke or dangerous fire conditions.
A matrix of connected parklands, 11 in all, along Skyline Ridge on the South Peninsula and adjoining Santa Cruz Mountains, was closed Wednesday. These include a series of open space preserves on Skyline, Long Ridge, Russian Ridge and Skyline, and south of La Honda, Pescadero Creek, Memorial and Sam MacDonald county parks, and nearby, Portola Redwoods State Park.
Deeper in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Big Basin Redwoods State Park was in the heart of the fire zone and shut down, and to the north, linked by China Grade, a Jeep road, Butano State Park was in the burn zone outside Pescadero and closed.
The most extensive closures were in the East Bay Regional Park District, where all but seven of the 73 parks normally open to the public were shut down in the fire emergency, park staff reported. The seven left open are located along the shorelines of San Francisco and San Pablo Bay, such as Point Isabel and Hayward Regional Shoreline.
According to park rangers at East Bay Parks, fires were burning at Del Valle, Mission Peak, Morgan Territory, Round Valley, Pleasanton Ridge and Sunol Regional Wilderness. Other parks were closed due to smoke or the threat of extreme fire danger, park staff said.
At Mount Diablo State Park, the shutdown was 100%, rangers reported. That includes four access points, North Gate out of Walnut Creek, South Gate out of Blackhawk, and Mitchell Canyon and Marsh Creek in Clayton, in addition to campgrounds on the mountain and trails that lead into the park from adjoining regional parks.
Nearby, the Contra Costa Water District published a public safety alert and closed the entire Los Vaqueros Watershed, including North Gate and the visitor center out of Brentwood, and South Gate and the marina out of Livermore. Los Vaqueros Reservoir, at 1,900 acres, is the largest recreation lake by far in the Bay Area, and its surrounding watershed lands span 18,500 acres.
Other major fire closures to recreation sites are in Napa County, where Lake Hennessey, also called Conn Dam, and adjoining Moore Creek Park, believed to be the starting point of one of the wildfires, are closed.
Tom Stienstra is The Chronicle’s outdoor writer. Email: tstienstra@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @StienstraTom.
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