"Duck Pond"

San Lorenzo Community Center Park has a playground, sports fields, picnic areas, and Duck Pond. Learn more about San Lorenzo.
Hiking at Lake Chabot

Lake Chabot Regional Park offers visitors a wide array of healthy activities: paddle boating, fishing, hiking, jogging, canoe and boat rentals, picnic areas, and grassy play areas.
REACH Ashland Youth Center

REACH provides hundreds of Ashland youths a safe space with a health clinic, career development clinic, dance studio, digital arts media lab, and more.
The New Eden Medical Center

This new medical center provides state-of-the-art technology, healing gardens, and private patient rooms with overnight accommodations for family members.
The Meek Estate in Cherryland

Built in 1869, the Estate consists of a 26-room mansion, carriage house, and a 9.75 acre public park.

Welcome to the East Bay’s Eden Area

The Castro Valley/Eden Area Chamber of Commerce serves the communities of Ashland, Castro Valley, Cherryland and San Lorenzo. Comprising the Eden Area, these communities offer rich and diverse opportunities to learn, shop, work, play and live. Each community has a unique history and flair offering residents and visitors experiences to remember. Castro Valley’s Sylvan Lake Chabot and world-class Eden Medical Center are just a few minutes apart. The vibrancy of the REACH Ashland Youth Center and grandeur of Cherryland’s historic Meek Estate flow out into the communities as well. San Lorenzo offers access to the Bay, its own Village, and recreation for most lifestyles. There are restaurants for every taste and budget, more than 25 parks, award-winning school districts and shopping for every occasion…come and enjoy Alameda County’s Eden Area.