page_title: Berkeley Hills
section_title: Development
hierarchical_section_title: Berkeley Hills / Development
caption_attribution_description: Oakland, California from Grizzly Peak Blvd. and Grizzly Terrace Drive.
context_page_description: The Berkeley Hills are a range of the Pacific Coast Ranges that overlook the northeast side of the valley that encompasses San Francisco Bay. They were previously called the "Contra Costa Range/Hills", but with the establishment of Berkeley and the University of California, the current usage was applied by geographers and gazetteers.
context_section_description: Much of the west slope of the Berkeley Hills has residential neighborhoods of mostly single family homes, except on the land of University of California, Berkeley.  Most streets are narrow and tend to follow the contours of the land, although three streets, Marin Avenue, Moeser Lane, and Potrero Avenue, run directly toward the ridgeline.  Other roads to the ridgeline wind their way up the canyons. Grizzly Peak and Skyline Boulevards follow the top of the ridge. Many neighborhoods in the south Berkeley hills are home to the more affluent residents of Berkeley and Oakland.
  The east slope of the Berkeley Hills is mostly preserved or partially developed wildland, much of it owned by the East Bay Regional Park District and the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). From north to south, the parks are Wildcat Canyon Regional Park, Tilden Regional Park (includes Vollmer and Grizzly Peaks), Sibley Volcanic Regional Park (includes Round Top), Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve, Redwood Regional Park (enfolding Roberts Regional Recreation Area), Anthony Chabot Regional Park, Lake Chabot Regional Park, and Cull Canyon Regional Recreation Area. Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve, and Temescal Regional Park are lower on the western slopes while Las Trampas Regional Wilderness is lower on the eastern slope above Danville.
  The Berkeley Hills are pierced by several tunnels.  Two are aqueducts of EBMUD; the Berkeley Hills Tunnel serves the Antioch–SFO/Millbrae line of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system.  The four bores of the Caldecott Tunnel carry State Highway 24 between Oakland and Contra Costa County.
caption: Oakland and the Bay from Grizzly Peak Blvd.
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