Tour the Bay-Delta this Summer

Go deep into California’s water hub and traverse the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a 720,000-acre network of islands and waterways that support the state’s water system and is one of the state’s most important ecosystems.

The gooseneck-shaped Hetch Hetchy reservoir sits glistening beneath magnificent granite canyon walls, similar to those towering in neighboring and more popular Yosemite Valley, the cornerstone of Yosemite National Park. The reservoir was created when a dam plugged the Tuolumne River and flooded Hetch Hetchy, a valley once heralded as “a grand landscape garden, one of nature’s rarest and most precious mountain temples” by Sierra Club founder John Muir.