Locals can work off the turkey and stuffing after Thanksgiving at one of the East Bay\u2019s 73 regional parks that will be open and free to the public as part of \u201cGreen Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n
The East Bay Regional Park District will waive all entrance and park use fees on Friday \u2014 including parking, boat launching and fishing, in addition to access to Ardenwood Historic Farm \u2014 as an alternative to Black Friday shopping.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreen Friday is a healthy and meaningful way to spend the day after Thanksgiving,\u201d East Bay Parks Volunteer Program Supervisor Jessica Sloan said in a press release. \u201cIt\u2019s a chance to enjoy time with family and friends in the outdoors or give back by participating in one of our volunteer clean-up projects.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green Friday activities at East Bay regional parks include:<\/p>\n
Volunteer Planting Opportunity, 9 a.m. at Contra Loma in Antioch (registration requested)
\nGreen Friday Hike Amongst the Trees, 9 a.m. at Reinhardt Redwood in Oakland
\nGreen Friday Hike, 9 a.m. at Black Diamond Mines in Antioch
\nGreen Friday Gratitude Hike, 10 a.m. at Sunol Wilderness in Sunol
\nGreen Friday Hike, 10:30 a.m. at Coyote Hills in Fremont<\/p>\n
For more information, visit www.ebparks.org\/green-friday. Fees are still in effect for state fishing licenses, watercraft inspections, and concessionaires, such as the Tilden Merry-Go-Round.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever you choose to spend it, the day is all about celebrating and caring for our natural spaces,\u201d Sloan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Locals can work off the turkey and stuffing after Thanksgiving at one of the East Bay\u2019s 73 regional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[27277,8,643,181,23,100,143,145,144,1725,15398],"class_list":{"0":"post-72269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-black-friday","9":"tag-california-news","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-oakland","15":"tag-oakland-headlines","16":"tag-oakland-news","17":"tag-parks","18":"tag-thanksgiving"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}