Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve is a 241 acres (0.98 km2) regional park and nature reserve in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area, in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, Northern California. [1] It is a park within the East Bay Regional Parks District system. [1]
The Preserve is named after the California Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum) which grows abundantly within its habitat.
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The Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve is on the crest of the Berkeley Hills, located above Oakland and Orinda. It represents a relic plant association found only in certain areas along the coastal climate region of California, where specific soil and climatic conditions still exist [1]. It is a very diverse botanical area for native plants of the mixed evergreen forest and montane chaparral and woodlands ecoregions and plant communities.
The Huckleberry Trail is a self-guided nature path that loops through the Preserve. [1] Besides the California Huckleberry, other plants include the Golden chinquapin (Chrysolepis chrysophylla), and California Bay (Umbellularia californica) and Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) woodlands.
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