Doug Siden Visitor Center at Crab Cove

Little museum and information center to the national park. Entrance is free. The park is full of birds and squirells and a very fine viewpoint.

Cute, cute, cute! Super cute+ derpy eels that might actually be mudskippers in the visitor center: To the right after you see the big lady crab & once you pass the shark skin, look in the aquarium on the left for two neon green sea creatures, one of which has an overwhelmingly expressive face.

The Crab cove visitor Center is part of the East Bay Regional Park District, and is located at 1252 McKay Av, Alameda, Ca 94501. The place is a kind place to visit and Discover some history, animals, fishes and plants that lives at the Bay area.
Inside there objects, pictures, videos and a lot of things that shows how rich this place are.
Addictionaly also there are the only one public bathrooms at the Alameda, everything clean and well done. I recommend it a visit there and also enjoy the beautiful view from the Robert W Crown Memorial State Beach.

We found this place while we were in Alameda because we need to use bathrooms badly. All the gas station don't let us the restroom eventhough we pay for the gas. So we google the public restroom in this town, and we found this gem. This is really beautiful cove. The center is nice and informative. The trails are really nice. I like how many big trees and so many beautiful flowers. I also love the picnic and large barbecue grills. There are so many geese though. Their poop are everywhere, especially in the nice yard.

Crab Cove is a large park looking out over the bay. Beautiful sweeping views of the bay area and some nice trails to walk along. There is a really nice visitor's center with some great displays, old photos, a video and a ton of local history. I had no idea there used to be an amusement park back in the day. There was a docent who was super-friendly and very informative. There are several picnic and barbecue areas with tables and barbecue pits. A few horse shoe pits also. There is a parking lot at each end of the park and currently bathrooms are closed due to covid. There was 1 port a potty in the parking lot next to the visitor center.