SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – A massive 6,300-acre property in San Mateo County will soon become a park accessible to the public.
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The new project is part of a conservation effort that was years in the making.
Cloverdale Ranch is one of the largest private coastal properties in California, but soon enough it will be turned into a public attraction.
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, a Bay Area that has preserved land and open space throughout the region, started the process of acquiring Cloverdale Ranch over the weekend.
The price of the land is $16 million. When it finally opens, the Cloverdale Ranch Open Space Preserve will become Midpen's third largest preserve, according to reporting by the San Francisco Chronicle.
While the process has begun, the sale, won’t likely be done until the new year, the paper reported.
"It's an amazing piece of land, it stretches all the way from here in Pescadero all the way down to Gazos State Beach, all the way from the coast, several miles inland across these coastal terraces," Dan Olstein, the director of land stewardship at Peninsula Open Space Trust, a local conservation nonprofit, told KCBS Radio.
Thousands of Cloverdale Ranch acres have already been transferred to surrounding state parks. The land up for purchase will be bought in two phases, starting with 5,100 acres and a subsequent possible 1,200 acres over the next few years.
"It's just amazing the opportunity we have to see the ocean on one side, the forest on the other, grasslands in between and know that wildlife are moving through there successfully," said Julie Anderson, a resource manager with Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.
"And that we have clean water for fish, for food, for wildlife," she said.
The new park will open to the public in phases over the next year or so.
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