The Mission Creek Bikeway and Greenbelt

The history of Mission Bay is the story of the gradual filling-in of a vast tidal cove in San Francisco Bay. First the salt marshes, mudflats and estuaries were bridged over, then filled-in with huge volumes of the City's unwanted sand hills. The process adapted to the dynamic city; from wooden toll roads for the horse and buggy to a causeway for train rails, the intervening land was eventually filled-in, generating huge fortunes for a few, by creating new saleable real estate from what was once under water..

Today this life-sustaining estuary is nearly forgotten and the water that still flows off the hills into our bay sweeps auto debris and toxic fluids into what remains of the larger San Francisco Estuary. How can we create awareness of the importance of our estuary to our environmental and economic well-being? How can we promote the ongoing stewardship of our estuary?

The Mission Creek Bikeway and Greenbelt

A continuous swath of open land, along side the trace of the long forgotten Mission Creek, has been recently vacated by the railroads which served the core of our City for over a century. We now have a window of opportunity to reclaim this once vital, central artery of the City.