China Camp State Park

China Camp State Park is a California State Park on the western shore of the bay of San Pablo. Located near the town of San Rafael Reserve was established in 1976 and covers an area of ​​approximately 613 hectares. The state park is named after China Camp Village, a former fishing village of Chinese immigrants.

China Camp Village is located in the eastern part of the conservation area and was founded in the 1860s. With the decline in demand for Chinese workers at the end of the California Gold Rush and the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, a number of Chinese migrants had settled on the edge of the bay of San Pablo and moved to the shrimp fishery. By 1880, China was Camp Village is one of many Chinese villages at the edge of the bay and included nearly 500 residents.

In one of the former homes of China Camp Village today is a museum where the history of the Chinese residents of the village can be studied. In 1979, the place on the National Register of Historic Places was recorded.

The State Park can be reached from San Francisco on Highway 101 and is - especially on weekends - a popular destination for walkers, runners and mountain bikers.

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The Grace Quan, a custom built in 2003, a replica of a Chinese fishing boat.

Views of the salt marshes in the northwestern part of the conservation area.