Great Hills Park

UPDATE: Due to the heat, the summer park meeting will be held INSIDE, four houses down the street from the playscape. Plenty of seats for all! WHAT: Great Hills Park’s summer meeting.  Everything about the park will be discussed. Bring your…

Great Hills Park, our beloved and well-used treasure, is run almost entirely by volunteers, as it has been for its 30+ years of existence. The city empties the trash cans near the trailheads and mows near the trailheads occasionally. Everything…

WHAT: Great Hills Park’s summer meeting.  Everything about the park will be discussed. Bring your questions and ideas. AGENDA: Committee reportsRecap of wildfire mitigation workdays and a discussion of future stepsRecap of 2026 Eagle Scout projectsNovember 2026 It’s My Park DayNew topics…

Join your neighbors this year for a Great Hills tradition on Saturday, July 4, 2026. The parade starts at 10:00 am at the corner of Sierra Nevada and Colina. We will march down Sierra Nevada and end at the Great…

On Sunday, May 3rd, our resident expert on native plants, Steve Schwartrzman, will lead a guided walk through the park to learn about the park’s wildflowers. It’s a great time to view them, especially after all the rain the past…

THANK YOU to everybody who helped out at the April 25 wildfire mitigation workday. The day was highly successful, collecting a great deal of brush. There were at least 43 volunteers, plus a few small helpers, who worked from 9-12…

The recent rains and emerging greenery could lull us into forgetting that there is a serious risk of wildfire in Great Hills Park. However, by summer we will likely find the park a dry tinderbox that could easily ignite to…

In April, Zachary Painovich led a project to replace the roof on the kiosks at the Taylor Draper trailhead and the playscape. These were cedar shake roofs that had deteriorated significantly. The new roofs upgrade the underlayment layers and add…

Over January to March, Sierra Kumar planned and organized the March 7 It’s My Park Day workday at Great Hills Park. She gathered requirements from stakeholders, put together plans for review, secured grants for material like mulch, and lined up…

In January, Arun Kumar led a large team to replace trail steps. This project replaced many steps on the trail below the Sierra Nevada trailhead, down to the first water crossing, that had deteriorated over the years. The replacement steps…