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Last week, we were delighted to share our new Diablo Range Revealed film, Fire, Drought, Rain and Hope: Three Wild Years in the Diablo Range, with an audience of more…

Five Times the Size of Yosemite National Park Save Mount Diablo’s Diablo Range Expansion Mount Diablo State Park has grown to 20,000 acres in 100 years. What if I told…

Little-known Fremont Peak lies just west-of-center in the Diablo Range and climbs a modest 3,171 feet from the nearby Monterey Bay. This hidden gem offers a vantage point that’s as…

One of the rarest gemstones in the world is only harvested en masse at the southern end of the Diablo Range.  It’s known as benitoite, and in 1985, it became…

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY AND STANISLAUS COUNTY, CA—Recently, National Park Service staff and volunteers tracked the paths of some special visitors to the Diablo region: California condors! Six condors soared through…

For all who live surrounded by the lights of the city, a true look at the night sky is rare. Sure, we can look up and see some of the…

Cooper Ogden is a freelance drone photographer who has been working with Save Mount Diablo to document the East Bay’s landscapes for years. His photography helps us advocate for the…

In 2020, the landscape of Del Puerto Canyon and much of the area around it was transformed. That August, the fourth largest wildfire in recorded California history blazed through the…

Located south of Tracy and west of the town of Patterson, Del Puerto Canyon is a unique part of the Diablo Range. Visitors to the area enter a special place,…

Residents of the Contra Costa County are fortunate enough to live close to Mount Diablo, many even able to see it from home. Countless people have enjoyed the hundreds of…