Due to drought, the water level was externally low!!
Anthony Lake Chabot Regonal Park
Anthony Lake Chabot Reagonal Park is located near Castro Valley in Almeda county in California. It is about 30~40 minutes from San Francisco International Airport. This is called "Lake" in the park name, but it is actually a reservoir.
In the park, there are many trails around the reservoir, picnic area and camping grounds. This week is a part of a long weekend, 4th of July weekend, in the US and it was very crowded today.
There is a parking lot after the toll gate. However, many people parked on Lake Chabot Rd. Since the street is almost full and I had to walk long way to get to the park. I decided to park Nike Classroom Parking lot on a hill. This parking lot is also free but we need to walk down a hill about 30 minutes.
No thing on the hill!
A last a few days, San Francisco bay area was hot more than 85F in daytime. Even if it was early in the morning around 9am, the temperature is over 80F. Around the parking lot, there is no shade and it was very hot and almost no wind.
Near Nike Classroom parking lot, no shade!
We walked down from Ten Hills Trail to Cameron Loop Trail toward the east end of the reservoir. It takes about 30 minutes to reach a trail around the reservoir. At the east end, there is a small bridge, but there is no water or water stream under the bridge. It was dried out.
Good thing was, once walked down from the top of the hill, there is a shade and there was wind on trails around the reservoir. It was not too bad to hike in such hot day. There were many people walk around. On the other hand, there was no people except us on top of the hills. It was obviously too hot to walk. It might be better to park near the reservoir even if we need to pay some parking fee!!
We can walk to the islands
The right side of the islands is dried out!
Since it was really hot day, we decided to rent a row boat instead of walking around the like. Walking around the lake is about 13~14 mils (about 20+km). So we walked to the visitor center on the south west side of the park.
The rental fee is USD$20 / hour, $28 for 2 hours and $40 / day. Not much different more than 2 hours. So if people stay longer or do fishing, it is worth to pay some extra dollars. We just rented for 2 hours and ate our lunch on the boat!!
Even if there is no shade on the lake, it was not too bad. Duo to nice wind on the lake, it is nice to stay on the lake.
Friendly ducks!
Ducks were very friendly and they came very close to our boat and kids were so happy many ducks around our boat. I was with 2 kids, therefore, we did not have an options to rent kayak. But renting kayaks would be another good option to enjoy the lake.
Since we parked on top of a hill, we had to climb the hill after that..... It was too hot and we talked that we would park near the visitor center next time!
But it is a fun park near tri-valley in summer time!
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