Tidewater Boating Center / Oakland Estuary
Tidewater Boating Center, 4675 Tidewater Avenue, Oakland, CA 94601. Practice, visits and the free two week trial all happen here.
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Questions: information@oaklandstrokes.org or (510) 926-4100.
Getting here
Tidewater Boating Center / 4675 Tidewater Avenue, Oakland, CA 94601
From I-880 or I-580: exit at High Street and head south, take the last left before the High Street bridge onto Tidewater Avenue, then turn right into the EBRPD Tidewater Boating Center driveway.
There is a parking area just south of the boathouse; it's being worked on at the moment, so space is tight. Carpooling or dropping off is a lot easier than trying to park.
It’s to the right as you enter the parking area. A pathway runs from there toward the boathouse.
That’s where your athlete will find their group.
Home water
Our boathouse sits on the Oakland Estuary, five miles of protected water that has been home to championship crews since the turn of the 20th century. UC Berkeley rows here, as does the California Rowing Club, which trains athletes for the under-23 and senior national teams. It’s one of the best stretches of rowing water in the country.
The Tidewater Boating Center is an architectural gem on the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, just southeast of the High Street Bridge. Built in partnership with the East Bay Regional Park District, it has been our permanent home since 2011: two boat bays, an erg room, a weight lifting area, an exercise mezzanine, and a public dock that brings life to the south end of the Estuary.
