A Recent History of Coyote Point, San Mateo County’s

Park on the Bay

For over one hundred and thirty years, Coyote Point has been prized for its remarkable location, access to the bay and abundant recreational opportunities. It offers something for everyone and has been a place to learn, relax, picnic and swim for decades. Half a million people visit this park on the bay every year, mak-ing new memories. And many like to hark back to earlier days when Coyote Point took on other identities.

Sometimes, people reminisce about The Castaway, a nautically-themed res-taurant that overlooked San Francisco Bay from a now empty promontory at Coyote Point Recreation Area. Others recall attending San Mateo Junior College at Coyote Point, before it moved to its current location in the western hills as College of San Mateo. And during World War II, the park was home to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, which churned out hundreds of officers to aid with the war effort.

It was in 1940 when the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Department purchased 727 acres, including 7,000 feet of shoreline, at Coyote Point. From this time to the end of the war, San Mateo County’s population grew by 110 percent. This rapidly developing area was in need of recreational amenities, but park officials would have to wait until 1963 to realize their dream of a larger recreational area.

Not that people hadn’t been trying for years to create a park for a booming population…

In 1922, quite dramatically, a grand

amusement park rose up along the sandy shoreline. Pacific City was touted as the next Coney Island and drew in approxi-mately one million people in its opening year. A young Houdini challenged local policemen. The second largest roller coaster in the United States, and the fastest in the West, thrilled youngsters. And on sunny days, thousands frolicked in the bay. But it didn’t last. Many fac-tors, including a fire, brought about the enterprise’s early failure.

Even before that, Coyote Point’s sandy bathing beach was a celebrated recre-ation destination for people around San Mateo and Burlingame in the 1890s. It was known for its shallow, warm water that would often reach seventy degrees in the summertime. A bathhouse was con-structed and used until the early 1920s.

While most of these institutions were short-lived at Coyote Point, some ame-nities continue to grow with popularity. Consider the San Mateo County Junior Museum which opened on the knoll in a Quonset Hut by the San Francisco Junior League in 1953. In 1974, it became the Coyote Point Museum for Environmental Education and is known today as CuriOdyssey. Thousands of local schoolchildren have come through its doors to learn about local wildlife or enjoy hands-on science experiments.

And Coyote Point’s prominent location has been respected for years by those who love its windy conditions. It is consid-ered one of the best places to windsurf and kiteboard on the West Coast, if not the world.

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The Allure of Coyote Point (History lesson gleaned from San Mateo County Parks — A Remarkable Story of Extraordinary Places

and the People Who Built Them, by Michael Svanevik and Shirley Burgett)

Pacific City at Coyote Point, 1922. Photo courtesy San Mateo County Parks Department.

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San Mateo County ParksCoyote Point Recreation Area

Crystal Springs Trails San Andreas Trail Sawyer Camp Trail

Edgewood Park & PreserveDevil’s Slide Trail

Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Pillar Point Bluffs Pillar Point Marsh

Flood ParkFriendship Park

Junipero Serra ParkHuddart Park

Memorial Park Pescadero Creek Park Sam McDonald Park

Heritage GroveMirada Surf

Moss Beach ParkSan Bruno Mountain Park

Sanchez AdobeSan Pedro Valley Park

Quarry ParkWoodside StoreWunderlich Park

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Four Questions for New Parks Director, Jonathan Gervais

Share one highlight from your parks career.

What comes to mind first is being able to move through a major planning and capital project for Alcatraz. There are a lot of challenges with Alcatraz. You have strong natural resources with nesting birds and then you have this wonderful historic resource. I was able to broker a deal between all the folks involved and ensure we could fix up all the major buildings on the island.

What has impressed you most about San Mateo County Parks?

The diversity of parks is amazing; we have different types of historic and natu-ral resources and recreational oppor-tunities. The ranger core is well-estab-lished and professional. The expecta-tions placed on them are high and they deliver. They are providing a safe and enjoyable experience for park visitors.

What would you like San Mateo County Parks to focus on?

I’d like to focus on smart acquisitions, financial stability and park infrastructure. It is really important to me that we have stability going into an economic downtown. There is deferred maintenance that needs to be addressed. We need to keep grow-ing our interpretive and natural resources programs- these are exciting programs. The question is how do we grow where it is needed but not too big where you expand beyond your resource capacity.

What do parks mean to you?

Parks are where citizens go to meet their government on good terms. As the county grows, parks take on a more important role. They provide a respite, an opportunity to reconnect with the natural world and historical stories. We are so lucky to have these places here in San Mateo County.

Jonathan Gervais, Parks Director

Board of DirectorsMary DeLong, ChairSusan Eliot Briggs

Lyndall ErbHeather HardyRoger HoppesJustin Knowles

Jorge LagunaJoe PfeisterDave Pine

Katy Coonan Rhoades

Korrine SkinnerSteve Wood

Executive Director

Michele Beasley

Development Associate

Thomas Beck

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Bringing the Living Shoreline Back to Coyote Point

Perhaps the one constant over the last 130 years has been a love for this area by aquaphiles and sun worship-ers. Coyote Point has been San Mateo County’s premier sandy spot on the bay, a rare treat as far as the nine-county Bay Area is concerned.

These days, though, the shoreline is plagued by chronic erosion and flooding from king tides. Beach access along the Eastern Promenade is severely limited. Climate change scientists predict that by

2050, sea levels will have risen by four feet. Bay Area communities are espe-cially vulnerable. If mitigation measures are not put in place, critical infrastruc-ture, homes, and natural amenities like Coyote Point will be impacted.

The San Mateo County Parks Department is proposing a climate-adaptation proj-ect that also facilitates year-round public access to the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. The Coyote Point Eastern Promenade

project fulfills climate change experts’ sea level rise predictions and innovatively incor-porates a perched sandy beach within a crenulated bay to mimic more resilient natural forms. This offers better protection of the shoreline from the impacts of high winds and tidal action.

Project benefits include:• Restoration of year-round beach

access, even during high tide;• Universal access for visitors of all

abilities, including beach mats for bay access and ADA bathrooms and park-ing;

• Better accommodation of water sports such as kite-boarding, w ind -sur f ing and standup paddle-boarding;

• An elevated Promenade Trail to pre-pare for sea level rise;

• A new linear seat-wall and more bench-es so people can watch kite-boarders soar and airplanes land.

• Green infrastructure in the form of three bio-retention areas with native vegetation.

• The removal of thirty-eight old pier stubs from tidal mudflat habitat.

Coyote Point continues to be an incred-ibly popular destination, but improve-ments are needed in order to meet 21st century challenges like sea level rise. The sandy beach of yesteryear doesn’t need to be a distant memory that we wax nos-talgic for; a resilient design that accom-modates park visitors and the future can bring this living shoreline back to its former glory.

Coyote Point Eastern Promenade Site Plan.

Kirk coming in from a great windsurfing session at Coyote Point. Photo courtesy Dan Eustaquio.

“Coyote Point is an amazing use of space for the whole family. It has children’s playgrounds, a beach, a boat harbor, barbeque sites, and it offers peaceful walks among the trees to some of the best kite-surfing conditions in the world. Coyote Point is a real gem of a park.”

— San Mateo County District 2 Supervisor Carole Groom

Eastern Promenade at low tide

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Hackleman in honor of Ranger Laurel Finnegan

Anne and Emily Kenner in honor of Steven Kenner

Dick Lavenstein in honor of Huddart Park Vounteers

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Prop 68: the California Clean Water and Safe Parks Act

On June 5, 2018, California voters will have a chance to consider a $4.1 billion parks and water bond, the first parks and water bond to appear on a state ballot in 12 years. San Mateo County Parks Foundation endorses Proposition 68 and urges your support of it too.

Over $1.2 billion is for parks, including:

• $725 million in grants for parks in park-poor areas

• $218 million for existing state parks and improving public access to parks, including $5 million for local agencies that oper-ate a unit of the state park system (i.e. San Bruno Mountain

• $30 million in competitive grants for local park and open space districts to create, expand or restore parks

Specific funding allocations for the Bay Area include:

• $20 million for the Coastal Conservancy to help fund Bay Area wetlands restoration

• $21.25 million to the San Francisco Bay Area Conservancy Program for the protection of coastal watersheds

• $14 million to the Ocean Protection Trust Fund

• $3 million for Los Gatos Creek and the Guadalupe River in San Jose

• $3 million for the Russian River in Sonoma County

With this parks and water bond, voters are also being asked to invest in a wide range of projects across urban, suburban and rural California. Together, these investments aim to provide clean drinking water, flood and drought protection, cli-mate resilience and park access for all. This bond directs funding to protect our ocean, coastal and bay resources and our rivers, creeks and streams. This is our green infrastructure, the backbone of healthy commu-nities and a healthy economy.

Among these investments is:

• $550 million for flood pro-tection and repair

• $100 million for water recycling including helping farms conserve water

• $60 million to improve wildlife and fish passage

• $20 million for coastal forests

We must continue to do what Californians have done since the first parks bond was approved by voters in 1928, preserving areas like Mount Diablo and Mount Tamalpais. This is an oppor-tunity to ensure the invest-ments that have been made in our world-class parks over the last 100 years are not lost, but enhanced. We can safeguard our children’s future by stewarding the nat-ural environment today. All park advocates must stand together in favor of better outdoor access and clean water for all.

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