Oakland Geology

Tyson Lake is a small pond on the upper edge of Piedmont at the top of Indian Gulch’s watershed. It’s invisible to everyone but the homeowners around it.

Glen Echo Creek has had more than one name in the past. A while ago I wrote about the lower part of Glen Echo Creek, the part that flows through residential territory. This is a closer look at the upper part, where the creek is born in a bedrock valley ...

Adams Point, the peninsula on Lake Merritt that’s now the heart of Lakeside Park, was always open space, but never empty. Activity went on there from Oakland’s earliest days. When a long-forgotten structure was discovered at Adams Point in 1893, the story was in all the papers for almost a week. After that it was forgotten again. Until this post.

In the summer of 1893,...