Tilden Nature Area Environmental Education Center — Local services in El Cerrito

This is a jewel next to Little Farm in Tilden Park. There are very friendly and knowledgeable rangers staffing the center who are happy to engage you or your child and answer questions. There is some literature available, I assume there will be more as the park opens with fewer restrictions. There is a small interactive museum within the center which is fun for kids. Hopefully they will resume the classes they use to have for children later in the season. My four year old makes a beeline for the center after the cows get their celery.

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The Wildcat Creek Trail runs from the Tilden Park Nature Area for 4.7 miles all the way to the Wildcat Canyon Regional Park Alvarado parking lot. It's a well maintained trail of either dirt, gravel or asphalt along the creek, the canyon and the adjacent hills. Unfortunately, the first mile from the Tilden side prohibits dogs and bikes. A majestic place to hike or bring the kids. Multiple...

This was such a blast I came to see the fungus fair and attend a drawing Workshop to learn how to draw and paint mushrooms and other fungi. All the tables in the community center were covered in different mushrooms that had been scavenged in the woods surrounding. There's cows and goat with long curly horns nice hiking and beautiful trees. A...