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Welcome to Friends of Tesla Park
Friends of Tesla Park is dedicated to protecting and preserving the biologically unique and culturally significant landscape known as Tesla Park as a historic and low impact recreation park and natural preserve.
Around 1999 the State of California Parks Department purchased about 3,000 acres in the southeast corner of Alameda County along the Tesla-Corral Hollow Road. The original intent of the purchase was to expand the existing adjacent Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area (SVRA ) off-highway vehicle park located in the southwestern corner of San Joaquin County west along Tesla-Corral Hollow Road.
But as the plans for expansion of the Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area (SVRA) off highway motor vehicle (OHMV) park were studied and the devastating impacts of OHMV use on the unique and fragile resources of the Tesla Park land were identified, proposals for an alternative use plan began to evolve and the goal of Tesla Park as a low impact recreation park and nature preserve was formed.
Tesla Park is not an official name…yet. But with your help it can be.
Learn more about this unique and special landscape, how it is threatened by proposed off-highway vehicle use, and what you can do to protect and preserve it.