Mount Diablo State Park hasn’t added a new property since 2007—17 years ago. For eight years, Save Mount Diablo has been trying to transfer its 165-acre Viera–North Peak property on the very slopes of Mount Diablo’s North Peak, for free.

More than a year ago, the CEMEX quarry publicly announced it wanted to donate 101 acres to Mount Diablo State Park, next to the state park’s Mitchell Canyon, including a section of the historic Black Point Trail. We need your help to get moving on these critical acquisitions.

Save Mount Diablo has worked closely with the state of California for 50 years, helping them acquire land. Mount Diablo State Park’s general plan includes 7,500 acres of “appropriate future additions,” most on the actual slopes of the two main peaks.

Seventeen years ago, California State Parks stopped making progress on any new additions to Mount Diablo State Park.

Save Mount Diablo has had to step in to save threatened properties that should be in Mount Diablo State Park until the state could make progress, or these properties would have been lost. Save Mount Diablo has more than eight properties ready to be added, and the CEMEX corporation is willing to donate its 101 acres.

We’ve asked Senator Steve Glazer and Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan to help move things forward, which they have kindly been doing, and we’re asking the public to urge state parks officials and the California State Parks Commission to make progress.

We are grateful that a small working group has formed, made up of our terrific partners at California State Parks and the East Contra Costa Habitat Conservancy, to help us get lands added to Mount Diablo State Park. However, we recognize that lands not being added to California State Parks is a large statewide issue, so our small working group also needs the voice and support of the public to further our efforts to break the logjam and get strategic lands added to Mount Diablo State Park.

In 2017 and 2018, the state parks department did not add a single acre of land, for the first time in at least half a century. California has not opened a new state park since 2009, when the U.S. Army donated four miles of beaches in Monterey County to become Fort Ord Dunes State Park. See more about the statewide problem in this article in the Marin Independent Journal.

Please send a message simultaneously to these individuals and agencies and urge them to break the logjam!