Bob Walker (photographer) - Honorary Areas

Honorary Areas

Walker's favorite place was Morgan Territory Regional Preserve which he helped to more than quadruple in size. A month before his death in September 1992 the East Bay Regional Park District honored him with the naming of a section of Morgan Territory Ridge as "Bob Walker Ridge" as well as the "Bob Walker Regional Trail," both in Morgan Territory Regional Preserve. Walker described the honor as the "proudest moment of my life."

Bob Walker Ridge is a section of Morgan Territory Ridge circled on the east and west by the Volvon Loop Trail. Crowned with oaks and bays with grassland below on the west side, heavily wooded on the east side, the ridge is visible for miles. It includes views west to Highland Ridge (much of the scene depicted in his pivotal photo Winter Storm Over Marsh Creek) and north to Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. To the east it overlooks Round Valley Regional Preserve and the Los Vaqueros reservoir and watershed, with more distant views across the defeated Marsh Canyon landfill, the new Los Meganos State Historic Park, Vasco Caves and Brushy Peak Regional Preserves, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and across the Central Valley to the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Bob Walker Regional Trail is also found in Morgan Territory Regional Preserve, stretching from Mt. Diablo State Park within Riggs Canyon across Highland Ridge, down into the Marsh creek drainage and back up and north around the Bob Walker Ridge and finally south to the Preserve main staging area. It overlays sections of the Highland Ridge Trail and the Volvon Loop Trail. Part of it is overlain by the Diablo Trail which Walker helped create.