Brooks Island
Brooks Island Regional Preserve includes both the 75-acre of Brooks Island above the low-tide line and 300 acres of the surrounding bay. The only public access to the island is via an East Bay Regional Park District naturalist tour.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rupert Clayton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Access is restricted and requires permission.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Contra Costa County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Brooks Island Regional Preserve”, “Isla del Carmel”, “Isla Del Carmen”, “Rocky Island”, and “Sheep Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include SS Red Oak Victory and Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
SS Red Oak Victory
Photo: Leonard G., CC0.
SS Red Oak Victory is a U.S. Victory ship of the Boulder Victory-class cargo ship used in the Second World War. She was preserved to serve as a museum ship in Richmond, California, and is managed by the Richmond Library of History and located near the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park
Museum
Photo: E. F. Joseph, Public domain.
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park is a United States national historical park located in Richmond, California, near San Francisco.
Brickyard Cove Pond
Pond
Photo: Wikigirl97, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brickyard Cove Pond is a small lake in the Brickyard Cove District of Richmond, California. It was formed from quarrying of Nicholl's Knob the surrounding hill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marina Bay and Stege.
Marina Bay
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Marina Bay, is located in Richmond's protected Richmond Inner Harbor. It was developed in the mid-1980s in an effort to clean up what had been up to that point the defunct World War II-era Kaiser Shipyards.
Stege
Locality
Stege, founded in 1876, was an unincorporated community in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The town has now been annexed and absorbed by the cities of Richmond and El Cerrito, California.
Point Richmond
Neighborhood
Point Richmond, also sometimes referred to locally as The Point, is a neighborhood in Richmond, California, United States, near the eastern end of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, between Interstate 580 and the San Francisco Bay.
Brooks Island
- Categories: park, recreation area, locality, and landform
- Location: Contra Costa, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.89777° or 37° 53′ 52″ northLongitude
-122.36239° or 122° 21′ 45″ westElevation
157 feet (48 metres)Operator
East Bay Regional Park DistrictOpen location code
849VVJXQ+42OpenStreetMap ID
way 157449985OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Brooks Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Brooks Island”
- Dutch: “Brooks Island”
- French: “Brooks Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Brooks”
- Spanish: “Isla de Brooks”
- Spanish: “Isla de Carmen”
- Spanish: “Isla de Cármen”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Brooks Island”. Photo: Rupert Clayton, CC BY-SA 3.0.