Discovering Cities in California series - Berkeley

Welcome to Berkeley, California.
The city is located in Region 9.
The County is Alameda.
The city has over 100,000 residents living in 10.5 square miles of land area while the city has 7.2 square miles of water area.
The city was incorporated in April 1878.
The city is located in Northern California.

Some Interesting facts about Berkeley, California.
Located only minutes over the San Francisco Bay Bridge from San Francisco, California the city of Berkeley sits on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay.
Lets get off to a great start by sharing University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) calls this city home.

Berkeley as a city has more education and science going on then most any other city Logic can think of besides that UC Berkeley is California’s first university and creativity, experimentation besides the 1960’s, science and exploration takes place here even though it is best known to this writer as the University that stands up for no nuclear, environment before self and ecology inventors and political influencers.

Berkeley is really known for being cutting edge in ecology so to no surprise they have one of the best and creative children’s play areas at Adventure Playground where children and experiment and build using recycled goods allowing the creative juices to flow into works of art and function and you can learn more about the Adventure Playground here Berkeley Adventure Playground.

Things to do in and around Berkeley, California.
Berkeley has more for you to do at their 54 acre marina and here is a list of Berkeley Activities Berkeley Marina Activities and because you are only located a long bridge ride across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco you will not have a problem finding a lot of wonderful things to do, eat and be a part of the bay Area culture.

There are more theatres, parks 52 of them and gardens including to the cities east though not located right in Berkeley is

Official City of Berkeley, California web sites.
City of Berkeley City of Berkeley, California

Berkeley Chamber of Commerce Berkeley, California Chamber of Commerce

Berkeley Landmarks Berkeley, California Landmarks

WeatherBerkeley.com
UCBerkeleyWeather.com