California Feature City
~Berkeley California~

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington. The eastern city limits coincide with the county line (bordering Contra Costa County) which generally follows the ridge line of the Berkeley Hills. Berkeley is located in northern Alameda County.

Berkeley is the site of the University of California, Berkeley, the oldest campus of the University of California system, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Hall of Science, Space Sciences Laboratory, and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, which are on the campus grounds. The city is noted as one of the most politically liberal in the nation, with one study placing it as the third most liberal city in the United States.

The Berkeley Hills are part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, and run in a northwest–southeast alignment. In Berkeley, the hills consist mainly of a soft, crumbly rock with outcroppings of harder material of old (and extinct) volcanic origin. These rhyolite formations can be seen in several city parks and in the yards of a number of private residences. One such park is Indian Rock Park in the northeastern part of Berkeley near the Arlington/Marin Circle.

Points of Interest:

• University of California, Berkeley
• Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
• Berkeley Marina
• Berkeley Public Library (Shattuck Avenue at Kittridge Street)
• Berkeley Repertory Theatre
• Berkeley Rose Garden
• Cloyne Court Hotel, a member of the University Students' Cooperative Association
• Hearst Greek Theatre (home of the annual Berkeley Jazz Festival)
• Judah L. Magnes Museum
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Lawrence Hall of Science
• Regional Parks Botanic Garden
• Telegraph Ave. Street Fair
• Tilden Regional Park
• Indian Rock Park
• University of California Botanical Garden