Doug Siden Visitor Center at Crab Cove
This visitor center and aquarium introduces children to San Francisco Bay life with an 800-gallon aquarium, interactive stations, microscopes, and a waterless plunge display. The adjacent protected shoreline and mudflats provide tidepool viewing and naturalist-led learning opportunities for families.
Category
Aquarium, Nature Center
Where
1252 McKay Ave, Alameda, California 94501, United StatesHours
- Sunday: 10:00–17:00
- Sunday: 10:00–16:00
- Sunday: 10:00–17:00
- Wednesday: 10:00–17:00
- Wednesday: 10:00–17:00
- Wednesday: 10:00–16:00
- Thursday: 10:00–17:00
- Thursday: 10:00–17:00
- Thursday: 10:00–16:00
- Friday: 10:00–17:00
- Friday: 10:00–16:00
- Friday: 10:00–17:00
- Saturday: 10:00–17:00
- Saturday: 10:00–16:00
- Saturday: 10:00–17:00
Ages
0 mo+
Accessibility
- Parking
- Paid · Parking lot · $5 per vehicle when kiosk is attended; $4 per trailered vehicle; Buses: $25 per bus.
- Restroom
- Standard
Rules
* Collecting or disturbing creatures in the Robert W. Crown State Marine Conservation Area is forbidden. * Beach wheelchairs require an assistant and are not intended to enter the water.
Contact
- Phone
- +15105443187
- ccove@ebparks.org
- Website
- https://www.ebparks.org/parks/visitor-centers/crab-cove