Dry Creek Cottage and Gardens, part of the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD), opened to the public in September 2007. Located at 550 May Rd., at the intersection of Whipple Road and Mission Boulevard, Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Park is interconnected with Garin Regional Park, as the two join together where Union City and Hayward meet.
While Dry Creek Pioneer is quite massive in size, with year-round hiking trails and a seasonal iris garden above the parking lot, the true gem of the park is the near-hidden garden refuge where May Road dead ends at the hills—there lie Dry Creek Cottage and Gardens.
This beautiful two-acre garden was legally gifted (along with 1200 additional acres) to the EBRPD in 1978, with the formal land exchange for the garden occurring in 1994-95…