The tourist comes up here for the views. Park the car, get out, admire the Bay and bridges, take some photos. Worth the drive.

Way up in the hills above campus, you will find this road that leads to Lawrence Lab. Stop for a bit to enjoy the splendid open views of the Bay Area at your feel Bridges!

Can see the entire Bay with the Golden Gate Bridge directly in front assuming there is no fog - good place to see the sunset.

Centennial Drive begins at the CAL football stadium and continues to Grizzly Peak Boulevard near the top of the Berkeley Hills. If you have a good road bike and you are in very good shape, try the challenge of pedalling up without getting off your bike. The reward will be an entrance to the rolling hills of beautiful Tilden Park. Assuming you are driving from the stadium going up the hill, on your right are the women's softball fields and the famous rugby field. CAL's men's team has been the best team in the country almost every year for a long time. Further up is Strawberry Canyon Aquatics Center. For five dollars you can swim and lay out. It is a great spot to take kids or to meet people. Another quarter mile or so up the road is a small parking lot to the right which is the beginning of Berkeley's most popular running path. It is a fire road that goes up rather steeply for almost two miles and then more gradually for another 2+ miles. Most people run or hike as far as a bench with a great view of San Francisco, the bay and Golden Gate Bridge. Continuing up the road another quarter mile gets you to the renowned University of California Botanical Gardens. A visitor to the area should try to find time to check it out for its diverse collection of plants from all over the world. Continuing past the parking lots to the botanical gardens you will arrive at the high security Berkeley Lab with cyclotron and nuclear research. From here you will go up the incredibly steep stretch of Centennial Drive to the Lawrence Hall of Science, a great museum with enough educational stuff for kids to keep them busy for days. Just past the entrance to the museum is a parking lot with one of the best views in the entire Bay Area . Continuing up the hill to Grizzly Peak, you can now enter Tilden Park with its lake for swimming, golf course, hikes, merry-g0 round and other adventures

to gardens on a winding drive with a assortment of older berkelesque homes and gardens. The sporting complexes are interesting and the views across the freeway sublime. What a climb the cyclists were inpressive.