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Landslides delay opening of scenic new public seaside park

Editorial Board Published June 19, 2025
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A brand new $14.2 million public park on the San Mateo County coast alongside a spectacular stretch of sandy seaside that was anticipated to open this summer time has been delayed by a yr.

On Thursday, San Mateo County Parks Director Nicholas Calderon mentioned that Tunitas Creek Seaside, positioned 8 miles south of Half Moon Bay, will open as an alternative in the summertime of 2026, as a result of must restore two giant landslides that developed this spring on the property.

The 58-acre property, which was as soon as owned by singer Chris Isaak, has a mile-long sandy seaside and picturesque cliffs greater than 100 toes tall on its northern edge.

Development started in late 2023 to put in restrooms, a car parking zone with 60 areas alongside Freeway 1, a ranger station, small amphitheater for ranger talks and extensive paths that can allow individuals, together with these with disabilities, entry.

However the two main slides have undercut a key highway to the seaside.

“We looked at all the options and came to the conclusion that because the slides are jeoplarding the main access route to the beach — which is the only vehicular access for first responders to access the beach — we have to repair them before we can open the property publicly,” Calderon mentioned Thursday.

The county employed geologists to take core samples and different measurements. The county’s public works division is designing a challenge to restore and stabilize the 2 giant slides. Getting them finalized, securing funding for the still-unknown restore prices and acquiring permits from the California Coastal Fee and different businesses will take till subsequent yr, he mentioned.

“People are so invested in the project,” Calderon mentioned. “I get questions about it from the public all the time. I think this is the most majestic property on the San Mateo County coast.”

The seaside and hillsides round it have an extended and colourful historical past.

Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola and his males camped alongside Tunitas Creek in 1769 throughout their expedition from Baja California to San Francisco Bay. The property was in personal possession for generations, its hovering cliffs and sand dunes hidden from motorists zooming alongside Freeway 1 between Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay.

An organization often called Todd Gelfand Belief, linked to singer Chris Isaak, bought the bluff-top land there, a modest Fifties-style home and a lot of the sand on the seaside for $3.1 million in 1998.

Isaak, 68, a Stockton native who had hits within the Nineteen Nineties with songs comparable to “Wicked Game,” was by no means seen on the property, locals say. The singer has declined interview requests to debate the land buy.

Beginning about 15 years in the past, the seaside grew to become the positioning of untamed, generally harmful events. Lots of of individuals with stereo methods, disco balls, tents, kegs and mattresses left large quantities of trash, set off fireworks and used Tunitas Creek Seaside as a rest room throughout all-night raves. In 2016, a San Jose man drowned there.

Isaak’s belief offered the property to a Palo Alto environmental group, the Peninsula Open House Belief, for $5 million in 2017, which in flip offered it for $3.2 million to San Mateo County in 2020.

The late San Mateo County Supervisor Don Horsely led efforts for the county to purchase the breathtaking seaside, construct facilities there and open the primary main coastal seaside added to the San Mateo County parks system since Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Seaside in 1969. After Horsely, who additionally was the previous San Mateo County sheriff, died in November, 2023, county leaders determined to call the brand new seaside park after him.

Longtime supporters of the challenge on Thursday described the newest delay as unlucky.

“We were so disappointed to hear about the landslide and subsequent delay of the opening,” mentioned Gordon Clark, president of the Peninsula Open House Belief. “That said, we understand the public safety priorities out there. This has been a large and audacious project, and we are here to see it through to completion despite this delay.”

The challenge has confronted different delays. A number of weeks after the county bought the land, the COVID pandemic hit, shutting down many tasks. Provide chain points after that, adopted by three moist winters in a row, additionally slowed efforts.

In June 2023, the county awarded an $11.6 million contract to Gordon Ball Inc., of Alamo, to construct parking, trails, a ranger station, restrooms, interpretive indicators and different facilities at Tunitas Creek Seaside.

After development started, change orders and different sudden prices elevated the value to $12.7 million. Final month, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors accredited spending one other $1.5 million to cowl prices for extra soils, extra combination rock, burying utilities, visitors management on Freeway 1 required by Caltrans, and different bills, bringing the overall to $14.2 million.

Practically all of the work is completed now, besides fixing the landslides, which Calderon mentioned had been doubtless made worse by three wet winters in a row.

“We are so eager and ready to open this to the public,” Calderon mentioned. “But we need to do it in the safest way possible.”

A $14.2 million project to build a new oceanfront park at Tunitas Creek Beach on the San Mateo County coast that was set to open this summer has been delayed for a year due to landslides on the property that must be repaired, San Mateo County Parks Director Nicholas Calderon announced June 19, 2025. The park, seen here on June 12, 2025, is now scheduled to open in summer 2026. (Photo San Mateo County Parks)A $14.2 million challenge to construct a brand new oceanfront park at Tunitas Creek Seaside on the San Mateo County coast that was set to open this summer time has been delayed for a yr attributable to landslides on the property that should be repaired, San Mateo County Parks Director Nicholas Calderon introduced June 19, 2025. The park, seen right here on June 12, 2025, is now scheduled to open in summer time 2026. (Picture San Mateo County Parks) 

Initially Printed: June 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM PDT

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