Hal Brown Park at Creekside

Beloved community amenities eventually begin to show their age. And the community has looooved this park since it was constructed in the mid-1970s.

In addition to being a habitat for humans, Creekside Park and the Madera Creek Multiuse Pathway provide habitat for sensitive native animal species and have helped mitigate flooding along Corte Madera Creek. “Making like a beaver,” the regenerative engineering creates an ecosystem that slows, spreads, sinks, stores and shares water, creating flourishing new habitats.

The community got very hands-on in the planning and redesign effort. The revitalized park, based on community priorities, includes a nature-based outdoor play environment with separate areas for preschool and school-age children, restored upland marsh transition habitat areas, improved gathering areas for picnicking, performances and quiet reflection at the marsh overlook, accessibility upgrades, dedicated accessible on-street parking spaces, new park plantings and irrigation systems, a sensory garden in the children’s play areas and a healing garden for community members and Marin General Hospital patients, visitors and staff. New custom-fabricated play features interpret the wildlife found in the Creekside Marsh and ornamental metalwork design was inspired by the Manzanita shrubs in the park. The park also meets all water-efficient landscape ordinance requirements.

The park reopened to great popular acclaim—and renewed love—as Hal Brown Park at Creekside, in honor of Brown, a longtime member of the County Board of Supervisors.