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Storm damage photos, outages linger, 30-year wait to underground utility lines is nearly over | Historic Asian American bookshop closing

Tuolumne Camp

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Photos: See inside the rebuilt Berkeley Tuolumne Camp

Avatar photo by Nico Savidge May 24, 2022, 2:53 p.m.February 20, 2023

The new camp, which welcomes families back this summer, was built to be more accessible and better protected from wildfire.

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Under threat from climate change, Berkeley’s family camps adapt to survive

Avatar photo by Nico Savidge May 22, 2022, 8:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

As Berkeley Tuolumne Camp reopens, the city’s cherished rustic retreats are facing growing threats from wildfires and landslides.

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Rebuilt Berkeley Tuolumne Camp to welcome families back this summer

Avatar photo by Nico Savidge March 16, 2022, 2:00 p.m.August 4, 2022

The rebuilt camp outside Yosemite National Park will reopen in June, nine years after it was destroyed in a wildfire.

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There have been fires before at Berkeley’s Echo Lake Camp

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel Aug. 31, 2021, 4:44 p.m.October 4, 2022

Buildings have burned and been crushed by snow but there has never been a threat as large as the Caldor Fire.

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Remembering Roy Doolan, lawyer who wrote memoir about his childhood in a Japanese prisoner of war camp

by Lark Doolan Aug. 10, 2021, 6:02 a.m.August 4, 2022

Roy Doolan, 85, was forced with his parents into Santo Tomas Internment Camp from ages 5 to 8.

Volunteer holding shovel aloft at Berkeley Tuolumne Camp.
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Volunteers plant 2,000 pine saplings at re-emerging Berkeley Tuolumne Camp

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel March 26, 2021, 11:07 a.m.February 20, 2023

The plan is for a fully accessible camp to reopen in 2022, its 100th anniversary.

group lined up between trees
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Berkeley residents have enjoyed city’s 3 family camps for almost 100 years

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel June 26, 2019, 2:00 p.m.August 4, 2022

Mara Melandry’s book, ‘Our Paradise: Berkeley’s Fabulous Family Camps,’ tells the history of the city’s three camps.

Visualization of the planned dining hall for Berkeley Tuolumne Camp
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Berkeley Tuolumne Camp resurrection aims at construction start next spring

Avatar photo by Tony Hicks May 23, 2019, 12:16 p.m.October 4, 2022

Destroyed in the 2013 Rim Fire, plans for the reconstruction of the camp near Yosemite are reaching fruition

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Opinion: Tuolumne funding approved… But who are Berkeley’s happy campers?

by Cameron Woo April 11, 2017, 9:00 a.m.February 20, 2023

Tuolumne camp is a positive, often transformative, experience but it must serve a more diverse population.

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Berkeley allocates $3.3M to rebuild beloved Tuolumne Camp

Avatar photo by Natalie Orenstein April 07, 2017, 1:15 p.m.October 4, 2022

The city will contribute $3.3 million to the $54 million it will cost to rebuild the popular family camp.

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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend

Avatar photo by Lance Knobel Sept. 11, 2015, 1:30 p.m.October 4, 2022

The annual Solano Stroll will be on Sunday, Sept. 13. Visit the Berkeleyside booth near Peet’s. Photo: Neil Mishalov SOLANO STROLL The forecast is for a break in the heatwave this weekend, so it should be pleasant to amble down Solano Avenue with tens of thousands of others on Sunday at the annual Solano Stroll. As always, […]

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Efforts to rebuild city’s Tuolumne Camp gain momentum

Avatar photo by Tracey Taylor April 27, 2015, 10:00 a.m.October 4, 2022

Berkeley Family Camp on the Tuolumne River before it was destroyed by the Rim Fire in 2013. Photo: Sonny Abesamis/Flickr The effort to rebuild Berkeley’s favorite family camp is well underway and, if the optimism on display at a recent meeting of those involved in planning its Phoenix-like rising from the ashes is indicative, the goal of a […]

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