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During the Vietnam War, musician Joan Baez \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/joan-baez-75th-birthday-celebration-8-things-you-didnt-know-about-joan-baez/4904/#:~:text=In%201964%2C%20she%20withheld%2060,Quentin%20during%20a%20Christmas%20vigil\">withheld 60%\u003c/a> of her income tax from the Internal Revenue Service to protest U.S. military spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decades since, voices on both the left and the right have called for a “tax strike” as a response to U.S. intervention abroad. Last year, former Republican Rep. 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Under federal law, individuals who fail to meet their obligations may end up having to pay a lot more than what they originally owed — and in more serious cases, face enforcement actions by the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what to know ahead of April 15, the last day to file and pay taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What U.S. law says I need to pay taxes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the U.S. became an independent nation, the federal government financed itself mostly by charging tariffs on imported goods. By the end of the 19th century, elected officials from \u003ca href=\"https://www.finance.senate.gov/about/history\">across the political spectrum\u003c/a> were calling for some sort of income tax in order to finance a growing federal government and \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7293419/robert-la-follettes-progressive-vision/\">respond to the massive inequality\u003c/a> of the Gilded Age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t until 1913 that the country ratified the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which states that Congress “shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077685 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/TaxesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/TaxesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/TaxesGetty-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/TaxesGetty-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In New York City, a coalition of anti-war groups gathered outside the IRS offices in Manhattan, demanding no taxes for war and militarism on April 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since then, Congress has approved multiple laws that regulate how individuals should file and pay income taxes. All of these rules make up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103\">Internal Revenue Code\u003c/a>, which regulates how the IRS can go about doing its job. The Code also establishes clear limits for the agency, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073445/tax-day-filing-2026-ice-irs-trump-itin-number-no-social-security-number\">limiting how it uses\u003c/a> taxpayers’ personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not have a voluntary tax system,” said Amy Spivey, professor and director of the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic at UC Law in San Francisco. “Anyone who earns or receives income in the United States has to file and pay taxes — that includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073445/tax-day-filing-2026-ice-irs-trump-itin-number-no-social-security-number\">people who are undocumented\u003c/a> as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If I refuse to pay my taxes, what happens first?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s say April 15 comes and goes, and you didn’t file anything with the IRS documenting your income from the previous year (and didn’t request an extension either). Will Uncle Sam be at your door on April 16?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not exactly, Spivey said, but nonetheless, a clock at the IRS offices will begin to tick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For each month that passes, the IRS can charge you two kinds of fees — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/payments/failure-to-file-penalty\">failure to file penalty\u003c/a> and a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/payments/failure-to-pay-penalty\">failure to pay penalty\u003c/a> — which are calculated as a percentage of the total amount you owe them. Meaning: The longer you don’t deal with your taxes, the bigger the amount the IRS will be expecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964303\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11964303 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1438452854-e1741641207115.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing a tan sweater sits at a desk holding a piece of paper in one hand and staring at a laptop.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With each passing month, the IRS can impose two separate penalties — one for failing to file and another for failing to pay — both calculated as a percentage of the total taxes owed. \u003ccite>(Pixdeluxe via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of how much you owe, that’s going to add up,” said Minnie Sage, program director of San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"https://tax-aid.org/\">Tax-Aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may start receiving letters from the IRS letting you know that your liability is growing. If you ignore this communication and let more time pass by, both penalties will keep stacking up on each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there is a point when the IRS can actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6020\">file a return\u003c/a> \u003cem>for \u003c/em>you based on your income information from years past — called a \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/what-to-expect-after-receiving-a-non-filer-compliance-alert-notice-and-what-to-do-to-resolve\">substitute return\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One downside of the IRS filing for you: Regardless of your living situation, the agency can actually file you as single and only give you a standard deduction, Spivey said. “You don’t get the benefit of any deductions, and it ultimately results in a higher tax burden,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for \u003cem>when \u003c/em>this might happen, Spivey said that in her experience, the IRS filing a return for you doesn’t happen immediately and could even take place a few years down the road. But in the meantime, both the failure to file and failure to pay penalties will keep accumulating.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Uncle Sam gets serious\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the IRS will kickstart a collection process to get what you owe. Here, the agency has two powerful tools available, Spivey said: a \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/understanding-a-federal-tax-lien\">lien\u003c/a> and a levy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lien is a document that establishes a legal claim by the federal government against your property or financial assets when you fail to pay a tax debt. “If you sell assets — for example, a home — you would have to hand over the proceeds or pay the taxes that you owe,” Spivey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A levy, on the other hand, allows the federal government to seize your property or financial assets to cover what you owe the IRS. 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This may potentially reduce your tax debt — but relies on the IRS agreeing with your assessment of your finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you ignore this notice, the IRS will go ahead and levy your property anyway. This could look like taking what you owe directly from your bank account, since your bank is required by law to comply with a levy, and if you don’t have enough money in your account, you’ll also be liable for overdraft fees from your bank.[aside postID=news_12073445 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/internal-revenue-service_qed-1020x680.jpg']In certain cases, the IRS can garnish your wages, meaning the agency communicates with your employer to require that a certain percentage of your salary be used to cover your debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spivey said that the IRS — depending on how much you owe — can also levy your retirement account. In extreme circumstances, they can even take your home or revoke your passport or block you from applying for one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collection proceedings usually go through civil law, but in \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-counsel/tax_crimes_handbook.pdf\">very specific cases\u003c/a>, the federal government can also enforce tax law through criminal prosecutions — which could result in much more severe penalties, including prison time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if someone’s situation does not get to that level, experts point out that not filing can complicate other parts of life. “A tax return is oftentimes a requirement for proof of income, with things like housing, education and federal loans like FAFSA,” Sage said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you also skipped on your state taxes, California’s Franchise Tax Board also has similar powers. “The Franchise Tax Board can also file a lien, they can levy your accounts, they can garnish your wages,” Spivey said. “You could potentially be looking at both the IRS and FTB both coming to collect the taxes that you owe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What do those refusing to pay taxes say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates of a tax strike say that international conflicts involving the U.S. — most recently, the ongoing war with Iran — are boosting public interest in what they call “tax resistance” as a form of political protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lincoln Rice, coordinator for the Milwaukee-based National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, told KQED that before Israel’s invasion of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">Gaza\u003c/a> in 2023, around 20 people would attend his group’s online trainings.[aside postID=news_11909786 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/pexels-sora-shimazaki-5668869-672x372.jpg']But hundreds of people are now showing up, he said. Training sessions cover “legal and illegal methods of war tax resistance along with the associated risks,” he said, adding that the group organizes a fund that aims to help members cover penalties and interests collected by the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rice said his group has also “offered W-4 workshops, where we explain how employees can lower or eliminate the federal tax withholding done by their employer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tax experts are quick to point out that even if you have zero federal tax withholdings on your paycheck, the law still requires you to pay taxes on those earnings down the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are on a ‘pay-as-you-go’ tax system, which means that taxpayers are required to pay taxes throughout the year on your income,” Spivey said. “If you underpay throughout the year, you may be hit with an \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/payments/underpayment-of-estimated-tax-by-individuals-penalty\">Underpayment of Estimated Tax penalty\u003c/a>, in addition to any tax you may owe related to the under-withholding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>2026 Tax Day is around the corner on Wednesday, April 15 — the last day to file and pay your federal and state income\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/taxes\"> taxes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While millions have already taken care of their taxes, some people \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/oregon/comments/1qd76pb/okay_everyone_hear_me_out_we_gotta_stop_paying/\">have shared\u003c/a> online that they are considering not paying their federal taxes \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KatanaSpeaks/status/2030786670480810351\">as a form of protest\u003c/a> against the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Chicago lawyer Rachel Cohen went viral on social media when \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DVbmBC3jwld/?hl=en\">she announced\u003c/a> her intention not to pay over $8,800 in income taxes. She \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/11/trump-income-tax-protest\">told \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that she refused to pay taxes that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/where-do-our-federal-tax-dollars-go\">could fund\u003c/a> aggressive immigration enforcement tactics or military actions in the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refusing to pay taxes has existed as a form of protest in the United States for centuries. During the Vietnam War, musician Joan Baez \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/joan-baez-75th-birthday-celebration-8-things-you-didnt-know-about-joan-baez/4904/#:~:text=In%201964%2C%20she%20withheld%2060,Quentin%20during%20a%20Christmas%20vigil\">withheld 60%\u003c/a> of her income tax from the Internal Revenue Service to protest U.S. military spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decades since, voices on both the left and the right have called for a “tax strike” as a response to U.S. intervention abroad. Last year, former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene endorsed the idea of a “tax revolt” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/FmrRepMTG/status/2006343025480306948\">on social media\u003c/a>, with the term “tax strike” seeing its biggest spike ever \u003ca href=\"https://trends.google.com/explore?q=tax%20strike&date=all&geo=US\">in Google searches\u003c/a> in the days that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, tax professionals and legal experts consistently warn that refusing to file or pay taxes carries significant consequences. Under federal law, individuals who fail to meet their obligations may end up having to pay a lot more than what they originally owed — and in more serious cases, face enforcement actions by the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what to know ahead of April 15, the last day to file and pay taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What U.S. law says I need to pay taxes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the U.S. became an independent nation, the federal government financed itself mostly by charging tariffs on imported goods. By the end of the 19th century, elected officials from \u003ca href=\"https://www.finance.senate.gov/about/history\">across the political spectrum\u003c/a> were calling for some sort of income tax in order to finance a growing federal government and \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7293419/robert-la-follettes-progressive-vision/\">respond to the massive inequality\u003c/a> of the Gilded Age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t until 1913 that the country ratified the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which states that Congress “shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077685 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/TaxesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/TaxesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/TaxesGetty-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/TaxesGetty-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In New York City, a coalition of anti-war groups gathered outside the IRS offices in Manhattan, demanding no taxes for war and militarism on April 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since then, Congress has approved multiple laws that regulate how individuals should file and pay income taxes. All of these rules make up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103\">Internal Revenue Code\u003c/a>, which regulates how the IRS can go about doing its job. The Code also establishes clear limits for the agency, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073445/tax-day-filing-2026-ice-irs-trump-itin-number-no-social-security-number\">limiting how it uses\u003c/a> taxpayers’ personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not have a voluntary tax system,” said Amy Spivey, professor and director of the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic at UC Law in San Francisco. “Anyone who earns or receives income in the United States has to file and pay taxes — that includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073445/tax-day-filing-2026-ice-irs-trump-itin-number-no-social-security-number\">people who are undocumented\u003c/a> as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If I refuse to pay my taxes, what happens first?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s say April 15 comes and goes, and you didn’t file anything with the IRS documenting your income from the previous year (and didn’t request an extension either). Will Uncle Sam be at your door on April 16?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not exactly, Spivey said, but nonetheless, a clock at the IRS offices will begin to tick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For each month that passes, the IRS can charge you two kinds of fees — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/payments/failure-to-file-penalty\">failure to file penalty\u003c/a> and a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/payments/failure-to-pay-penalty\">failure to pay penalty\u003c/a> — which are calculated as a percentage of the total amount you owe them. Meaning: The longer you don’t deal with your taxes, the bigger the amount the IRS will be expecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964303\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11964303 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1438452854-e1741641207115.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing a tan sweater sits at a desk holding a piece of paper in one hand and staring at a laptop.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With each passing month, the IRS can impose two separate penalties — one for failing to file and another for failing to pay — both calculated as a percentage of the total taxes owed. \u003ccite>(Pixdeluxe via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of how much you owe, that’s going to add up,” said Minnie Sage, program director of San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"https://tax-aid.org/\">Tax-Aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may start receiving letters from the IRS letting you know that your liability is growing. If you ignore this communication and let more time pass by, both penalties will keep stacking up on each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there is a point when the IRS can actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6020\">file a return\u003c/a> \u003cem>for \u003c/em>you based on your income information from years past — called a \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/what-to-expect-after-receiving-a-non-filer-compliance-alert-notice-and-what-to-do-to-resolve\">substitute return\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One downside of the IRS filing for you: Regardless of your living situation, the agency can actually file you as single and only give you a standard deduction, Spivey said. “You don’t get the benefit of any deductions, and it ultimately results in a higher tax burden,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for \u003cem>when \u003c/em>this might happen, Spivey said that in her experience, the IRS filing a return for you doesn’t happen immediately and could even take place a few years down the road. But in the meantime, both the failure to file and failure to pay penalties will keep accumulating.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Uncle Sam gets serious\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the IRS will kickstart a collection process to get what you owe. Here, the agency has two powerful tools available, Spivey said: a \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/understanding-a-federal-tax-lien\">lien\u003c/a> and a levy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lien is a document that establishes a legal claim by the federal government against your property or financial assets when you fail to pay a tax debt. “If you sell assets — for example, a home — you would have to hand over the proceeds or pay the taxes that you owe,” Spivey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A levy, on the other hand, allows the federal government to seize your property or financial assets to cover what you owe the IRS. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> residents hoping to cruise through the city to Oakland next weekend may want to ditch their cars and hop on public transit, as a key stretch of eastbound Interstate 80 through San Francisco will be closed to traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Motorists are strongly advised to avoid the area around I-80 in San Francisco and the interchange with U.S. Highway 101 for the entire weekend of April 17–19. For those committed to driving, expect heavy delays and budget extra travel time, \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-news/2026-03-19-i80-eb-bayshore-weekend-closure\">Caltrans \u003c/a>said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are trying to get the motorists to just avoid that area and choose not to drive. And if they do drive, to use one of the detours,” said Lori Shepherd, Caltrans’ public information officer for San Francisco County. “That would be really a great way to save themselves a lot of headaches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closures are part of what Caltrans calls “The Fab Rehab,” the agency’s ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-projects/d4-san-francisco-freeway-and-road-rehabilitation/d4-central-freeway-viaduct-rehab\">repair \u003c/a>of crucial viaducts near downtown, where I-80 intersects with U.S. 101 near the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what to know about the I-80 closure and how it could affect your weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowmuchcouldtheBayBridgebeaffectedbytheI80closure\"> How could the Bay Bridge be affected by the I-80 closure?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What part of I-80 will be closed April 17-19?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Caltrans has planned a full weekend closure of about 1.6 miles of eastbound I-80, from 17th Street to 4th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The connector ramps from northbound U.S. 101 at 17th Street and southbound U.S. 101 near Bryant Street will also be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12079545\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SF-Freeway-Closures-Final-Map.sr_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1540\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SF-Freeway-Closures-Final-Map.sr_.jpg 1540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SF-Freeway-Closures-Final-Map.sr_-160x147.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SF-Freeway-Closures-Final-Map.sr_-1536x1410.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1540px) 100vw, 1540px\">For motorists traveling north on U.S. 101 through San Francisco, approaching the I-80 connector, Vermont Street will be the final exit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who miss Vermont will be directed to take the 9th Street off-ramp and redirected through Bryant Street to reenter eastbound I-80 at the 5th Street on-ramp.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will the I-80 closure start and end?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 55-hour closure will start at 11:00 p.m. Friday, April 17, and end at 6:00 a.m. Monday, April 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you may see trucks and maintenance crews entering the site beforehand, work doesn’t begin until the posted time, Shepherd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowmuchcouldtheBayBridgebeaffectedbytheI80closure\">\u003c/a>How much could the Bay Bridge be affected by the I-80 closure?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To be clear, the Bay Bridge will be open — but getting \u003cem>to \u003c/em>it through San Francisco will be a traffic nightmare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westbound I-80 will not be closed, so although people exiting the Bay Bridge into San Francisco will not have their routes affected by the closure, they’re still likely to face increased traffic in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What detours and alternative routes are recommended during the I-80 closure?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For a detour from southbound U.S. 101 to eastbound I-80, people can take Folsom Street through SoMa to the Essex Street eastbound I-80 on-ramp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp5s-VOPXxY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From northbound U.S. 101, take the 9th Street–Civic Center exit. Continue straight onto Bryant Street, then take the 5th Street eastbound I-80 on-ramp toward the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who will be most affected by the I-80 closure?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Caltrans said roughly 55,000 cars typically use that stretch of freeway during peak weekend hours, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Shepherd emphasized that everyone driving into San Francisco and using its high-traffic arteries south of Market Street that weekend will run into detours and heavy traffic, he said the following travelers will likely be most affected:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>People coming up from the Peninsula and the South Bay\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Those heading across the Bay Bridge\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Travelers heading north from San Francisco International Airport.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079179\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign announces a closure on I-80 on April 8, 2026. Eastbound lanes are scheduled to close from 11 p.m. April 17 to 6 a.m. April 20 for planned construction work, with detours in place during the closure. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Will public transit be affected by the I-80 closure?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bay Area’s public transit networks could potentially see more ridership and congestion with drivers avoiding the roads during the I-80 closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regular transit routes around the recommended detour streets could also be affected by increased traffic. SFMTA spokesperson Michael Roccaforte said that during the closure, the agency’s parking control officers would be “out directing traffic to keep pedestrians and traffic moving safely.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065067\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20241204-BART-JY-032_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20241204-BART-JY-032_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20241204-BART-JY-032_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20241204-BART-JY-032_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A passenger walks through the fare gate at Montgomery BART Station in San Francisco, on Dec. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Representatives for BART have yet to say whether they plan to add any additional service during this period.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randol White, a spokesperson for the SamTrans network around San Mateo County and San Francisco, said the closures are not expected to affect any weekend bus routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “diversions from the closures could cause heavy traffic for our Route 292, which follows Mission Street through the affected area,” he said — and while Folsom Street is the suggested detour for drivers, “some of that extra surface street traffic could spill over to Mission,” warned White.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What parts of San Francisco will be most affected by traffic from the I-80 closure detours? How bad could traffic get?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Significant congestion and heavy travel delays are expected across SoMa, Mission Bay and surrounding corridors. The severity of those delays, Shepherd warned, will depend on how many people choose to drive and use the detours — “which is why we’re really, really urging motorists that weekend not to be in that area and to use public transportation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a wonderful public transportation system, with BART and Bay ferries and Muni,” Shepherd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What public events are happening in the Bay Area that weekend that could be affected by the I-80 closure?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there are no home games for the Giants, Warriors or Valkyries that weekend, there are a host of other events that could draw major crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the last weekend of the beloved\u003ca href=\"https://sfcherryblossom.org/\"> Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival\u003c/a> in Japantown, including the Sunday grand parade. At the same time, San Francisco will host the \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscoartfair.com/\">annual Art Fair\u003c/a> at Fort Mason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036759\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Art Fair at the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion. \u003ccite>(Photography by Drew Bird, Courtesy of Art Market Productions.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while San Francisco’s official 4/20 celebration on Hippie Hill has been canceled for the third year in a row, the party is far from over — the city has reintroduced the festivities as\u003ca href=\"https://sfspacewalk.com/\"> SF Space Walk\u003c/a>, a week of events culminating with a celebration at Divisadero Street dispensary Basa SF and an afterparty at barcade Emporium on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is this closure taking place over this weekend?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shepherd said Caltrans considered high-traffic events, school holidays and weather forecasts to determine a time when travelers would be least affected by the closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maintenance crews will place polyester overlays and bridge joints onto the viaducts, which were originally built 71 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of these improvements, overnight lane closures will continue through October 2026 on U.S. 101 and I-80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Work is scheduled nightly from 10:00 p.m. to 6 a.m. During those hours, lanes 1 and 2 between U.S. 101 and the 4th Street/Bryant off-ramp will be closed, leaving one lane open for traffic. Drivers should expect reduced speeds, possible delays and shifting traffic patterns through the work zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079175\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 9th Street on-ramp for eastbound I-80 in San Francisco on April 8, 2026. Eastbound lanes are scheduled to close from 11 p.m. April 17 to 6 a.m. April 20 for planned construction work, with detours in place during the closure. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project is part of a larger series of renovations Caltrans is spearheading throughout San Francisco, which began in October 2025. These include four major corridors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>19th Avenue Repave: Rehabilitation of the entire length of pavement along 19th Avenue from Golden Gate Park to San Francisco State University, and upgrading facilities to ADA standards.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>S. 101 Bayshore Rehabilitation Project: Improvements to the drainage systems; lane replacement with reinforced concrete paving and paving of freeway shoulder, ramps and mainline; and addition of new signage/striping/safety devices.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>I-80 Central Freeway/U.S. 101 Viaduct Project: An overhaul of freeway decks and bridge rails, reconstruction of joints and addition of polyester overlay.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>I-280 at Farallones Street Pedestrian Overcrossing Rehabilitation: Construction of a new pedestrian overcrossing at Interstate 280 near Cayuga Park.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Shepherd said the projects are necessary to make the structures usable for the next half-century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are all projects that are desperately needed to bring these structures up to code,” Shepherd said. “They’ve been strong and reliable for many, many years, but it’s time now to go and make sure that they’re rehabilitated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first two projects are already underway, and the closures next weekend kick off the reconstruction of the viaduct project. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closures are part of what Caltrans calls “The Fab Rehab,” the agency’s ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-projects/d4-san-francisco-freeway-and-road-rehabilitation/d4-central-freeway-viaduct-rehab\">repair \u003c/a>of crucial viaducts near downtown, where I-80 intersects with U.S. 101 near the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what to know about the I-80 closure and how it could affect your weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowmuchcouldtheBayBridgebeaffectedbytheI80closure\"> How could the Bay Bridge be affected by the I-80 closure?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What part of I-80 will be closed April 17-19?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Caltrans has planned a full weekend closure of about 1.6 miles of eastbound I-80, from 17th Street to 4th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The connector ramps from northbound U.S. 101 at 17th Street and southbound U.S. 101 near Bryant Street will also be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12079545\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SF-Freeway-Closures-Final-Map.sr_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1540\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SF-Freeway-Closures-Final-Map.sr_.jpg 1540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SF-Freeway-Closures-Final-Map.sr_-160x147.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SF-Freeway-Closures-Final-Map.sr_-1536x1410.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1540px) 100vw, 1540px\">For motorists traveling north on U.S. 101 through San Francisco, approaching the I-80 connector, Vermont Street will be the final exit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who miss Vermont will be directed to take the 9th Street off-ramp and redirected through Bryant Street to reenter eastbound I-80 at the 5th Street on-ramp.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will the I-80 closure start and end?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 55-hour closure will start at 11:00 p.m. Friday, April 17, and end at 6:00 a.m. Monday, April 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you may see trucks and maintenance crews entering the site beforehand, work doesn’t begin until the posted time, Shepherd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowmuchcouldtheBayBridgebeaffectedbytheI80closure\">\u003c/a>How much could the Bay Bridge be affected by the I-80 closure?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To be clear, the Bay Bridge will be open — but getting \u003cem>to \u003c/em>it through San Francisco will be a traffic nightmare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westbound I-80 will not be closed, so although people exiting the Bay Bridge into San Francisco will not have their routes affected by the closure, they’re still likely to face increased traffic in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What detours and alternative routes are recommended during the I-80 closure?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For a detour from southbound U.S. 101 to eastbound I-80, people can take Folsom Street through SoMa to the Essex Street eastbound I-80 on-ramp.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/pp5s-VOPXxY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pp5s-VOPXxY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>From northbound U.S. 101, take the 9th Street–Civic Center exit. Continue straight onto Bryant Street, then take the 5th Street eastbound I-80 on-ramp toward the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who will be most affected by the I-80 closure?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Caltrans said roughly 55,000 cars typically use that stretch of freeway during peak weekend hours, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Shepherd emphasized that everyone driving into San Francisco and using its high-traffic arteries south of Market Street that weekend will run into detours and heavy traffic, he said the following travelers will likely be most affected:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>People coming up from the Peninsula and the South Bay\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Those heading across the Bay Bridge\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Travelers heading north from San Francisco International Airport.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079179\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign announces a closure on I-80 on April 8, 2026. Eastbound lanes are scheduled to close from 11 p.m. April 17 to 6 a.m. April 20 for planned construction work, with detours in place during the closure. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Will public transit be affected by the I-80 closure?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bay Area’s public transit networks could potentially see more ridership and congestion with drivers avoiding the roads during the I-80 closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regular transit routes around the recommended detour streets could also be affected by increased traffic. SFMTA spokesperson Michael Roccaforte said that during the closure, the agency’s parking control officers would be “out directing traffic to keep pedestrians and traffic moving safely.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065067\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20241204-BART-JY-032_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20241204-BART-JY-032_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20241204-BART-JY-032_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20241204-BART-JY-032_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A passenger walks through the fare gate at Montgomery BART Station in San Francisco, on Dec. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Representatives for BART have yet to say whether they plan to add any additional service during this period.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randol White, a spokesperson for the SamTrans network around San Mateo County and San Francisco, said the closures are not expected to affect any weekend bus routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “diversions from the closures could cause heavy traffic for our Route 292, which follows Mission Street through the affected area,” he said — and while Folsom Street is the suggested detour for drivers, “some of that extra surface street traffic could spill over to Mission,” warned White.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What parts of San Francisco will be most affected by traffic from the I-80 closure detours? How bad could traffic get?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Significant congestion and heavy travel delays are expected across SoMa, Mission Bay and surrounding corridors. The severity of those delays, Shepherd warned, will depend on how many people choose to drive and use the detours — “which is why we’re really, really urging motorists that weekend not to be in that area and to use public transportation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a wonderful public transportation system, with BART and Bay ferries and Muni,” Shepherd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What public events are happening in the Bay Area that weekend that could be affected by the I-80 closure?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there are no home games for the Giants, Warriors or Valkyries that weekend, there are a host of other events that could draw major crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the last weekend of the beloved\u003ca href=\"https://sfcherryblossom.org/\"> Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival\u003c/a> in Japantown, including the Sunday grand parade. At the same time, San Francisco will host the \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscoartfair.com/\">annual Art Fair\u003c/a> at Fort Mason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036759\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/sf-art-fair-4-17-25-drew-bird-086-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Art Fair at the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion. \u003ccite>(Photography by Drew Bird, Courtesy of Art Market Productions.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while San Francisco’s official 4/20 celebration on Hippie Hill has been canceled for the third year in a row, the party is far from over — the city has reintroduced the festivities as\u003ca href=\"https://sfspacewalk.com/\"> SF Space Walk\u003c/a>, a week of events culminating with a celebration at Divisadero Street dispensary Basa SF and an afterparty at barcade Emporium on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is this closure taking place over this weekend?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shepherd said Caltrans considered high-traffic events, school holidays and weather forecasts to determine a time when travelers would be least affected by the closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maintenance crews will place polyester overlays and bridge joints onto the viaducts, which were originally built 71 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of these improvements, overnight lane closures will continue through October 2026 on U.S. 101 and I-80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Work is scheduled nightly from 10:00 p.m. to 6 a.m. During those hours, lanes 1 and 2 between U.S. 101 and the 4th Street/Bryant off-ramp will be closed, leaving one lane open for traffic. Drivers should expect reduced speeds, possible delays and shifting traffic patterns through the work zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079175\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-I80Closure-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 9th Street on-ramp for eastbound I-80 in San Francisco on April 8, 2026. Eastbound lanes are scheduled to close from 11 p.m. April 17 to 6 a.m. April 20 for planned construction work, with detours in place during the closure. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project is part of a larger series of renovations Caltrans is spearheading throughout San Francisco, which began in October 2025. These include four major corridors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>19th Avenue Repave: Rehabilitation of the entire length of pavement along 19th Avenue from Golden Gate Park to San Francisco State University, and upgrading facilities to ADA standards.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>S. 101 Bayshore Rehabilitation Project: Improvements to the drainage systems; lane replacement with reinforced concrete paving and paving of freeway shoulder, ramps and mainline; and addition of new signage/striping/safety devices.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>I-80 Central Freeway/U.S. 101 Viaduct Project: An overhaul of freeway decks and bridge rails, reconstruction of joints and addition of polyester overlay.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>I-280 at Farallones Street Pedestrian Overcrossing Rehabilitation: Construction of a new pedestrian overcrossing at Interstate 280 near Cayuga Park.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Shepherd said the projects are necessary to make the structures usable for the next half-century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are all projects that are desperately needed to bring these structures up to code,” Shepherd said. “They’ve been strong and reliable for many, many years, but it’s time now to go and make sure that they’re rehabilitated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first two projects are already underway, and the closures next weekend kick off the reconstruction of the viaduct project. The pedestrian overpass reconstruction is expected to start later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closures scheduled for next weekend are related to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/caltrans-close-sf-exit-22193680.php\">now-canceled\u003c/a> closure of the 4th Street exit on eastbound I-80, which was originally scheduled for this weekend but postponed due to the forecast for rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/tgoldberg\">Ted Goldberg\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">Carly Severn\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With summer and warmer temperatures just around the corner, the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985496/best-bay-area-hikes-wildlife-near-me\">parks and trails are starting to bustle even more with wildlife\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are a few critters that hikers should look to avoid — and rattlesnakes are definitely one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/about-us/whats-new/news/rattlesnake-advisory\">East Bay Regional Parks District issued an advisory\u003c/a> warning hikers about the potential dangers of encountering rattlesnakes on local trails, stressing the threat these venomous creatures can pose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#rattlesnake-bite-what-to-do\">What should I do if a rattlesnake bites me?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/california-sixth-person-bitten-rattlesnake\"> two people \u003c/a>have already died in 2026 after being bitten by rattlesnakes in California, both in Ventura County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native to California and the Bay Area, rattlesnakes are common on local trails in areas like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/maps\">Anthony Chabot, Tilden and Diablo Foothills regional parks\u003c/a> – but you should take them seriously, EBRPD spokesperson Dave Mason told KQED in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely important to be cautious for us humans – and also our pets,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you or your pup stumble across a rattlesnake in the wild, what should you do?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>First off: How can I recognize a rattlesnake?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/common_snakes.pdf\">The rattlesnakes local to the Bay Area\u003c/a> tend to be brown or black, matching the general color of the soil they inhabit. Their skin is dull-colored with large blotches, and their head is flat and triangular with folds of skin at its tail forming a “rattle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, you may be more likely to recognize a rattlesnake by ear. True to their name, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nYnVPba4g\">they make a “rattling” sound\u003c/a> that makes them easy to distinguish from other, less harmful snakes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nYnVPba4g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2bBSdxIEjs\">Rattlesnakes are often confused with gopher snakes\u003c/a>, which have similar coloration and length. The key differences to keep are the gopher snake’s glossy skin and more slender head and body. Unlike rattlesnakes, gopher snakes are not venomous.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>When should I most watch out for rattlesnakes — and where? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>EBRPD’s Mason said that like all reptiles, rattlesnakes become more active in warmer weather — as do humans. This is the reason that \u003ca href=\"https://calpoison.org/about-rattlesnakes\">encounters between the two species tend to happen most between April and October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While snakes can be found all over these East Bay parks and preserves, many encounters happen out on hiking trails and fire roads, Mason said — often in grassy areas. This is why he advises: “Don’t go off the trails into the grass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1335px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11743401\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/image-from-ios-1-_wide-a3f0899f95013c976164e2ee22a7ab7e85f9be71-e1556467826638.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1335\" height=\"751\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer Michael Lee Jackson hops out of his Toyota to capture a closer view of a rattlesnake sunning itself on the dirt road. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to staying on designated trails, try to scan the ground while walking. When sitting down, examine your chosen spot first and try not to put your hands or feet anywhere you can’t clearly see. Keep your dog on a leash to keep yourself and your pet safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, hiking alone means it might be harder to find speedy medical attention if you do get bitten — so consider finding a hiking buddy during these warmer months when the risks of rattlesnake encounters are higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I do if I see a rattlesnake?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Give the snake plenty of space immediately, Mason advised. Do not try to capture or harm a snake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, you will hear a rattlesnake before you see it — so when that happens, “be wary, look around and get away from it as quickly as possible,” he said. “Go around it. Leave it alone. They are part of nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re out hiking with your dog and you see a snake, calmly and slowly steer them away from it. \u003ca href=\"https://napahumane.org/rattlesnake-season-safety-tips-and-rattlesnake-avoidance-training-options/\">Some experts even recommend rattlesnake avoidance training\u003c/a> for your dog. If you’re interested, make sure you find a certified training professional using humane science-based methods, which can help teach dogs to respond to scents and cues to avoid bites.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"rattlesnake-bite-what-to-do\">\u003c/a>If a rattlesnake bites me, what should I do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5393596.pdf\">Around 8,000 people in the U.S. are bitten by rattlesnakes every year\u003c/a>, usually on the hands, feet and ankles. Somewhere between 5 and 15 of those cases are fatal each year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/outdoor-workers/about/venomous-snakes.html\">the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> and the Food and Drug Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually, rattlesnake bites will leave two puncture marks, and you’ll feel an intense, burning pain. If this happens, “focus on how to get medical attention as soon as possible,” Mason said.[aside postID=news_12035515 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-1366211065_qed-1020x681.jpg']After immediately calling 911, try to sit or lie down, keeping the bite below your heart. Most importantly, keep the area of the bite in a neutral, comfortable position. If possible, you should gently wash the wound with any clean water you have nearby — like from your water bottle or a fast-moving stream — and soap if you have it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/outdoor-workers/about/venomous-snakes.html\">The CDC recommends\u003c/a> taking note of the time the bite occurred by actually writing it on your skin next to the wound and removing any jewelry or watches that might constrict swelling. Around 25% of bites are “dry,” meaning the snake did not use venom, but even those bites still need to be treated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBRPD advised against using tourniquets or snakebite kits (more on this below) and said \u003cem>not \u003c/em>to try sucking out the venom. You also shouldn’t take any medications like ibuprofen or acetaminophen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re bitten while hiking alone, walk slowly to get help. While this might feel counterintuitive, the CDC warns that running increases your heart rate and could spread the venom more quickly throughout your body, as could driving yourself to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/common_snakes.pdf\">Other types of snake bites\u003c/a> — like a bite from the Pacific gopher snake — can be treated with soap and water, but medical attention is still advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why shouldn’t I use a snakebite kit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts \u003ca href=\"https://www.snakebitefoundation.org/blog/the-truth-about-commercial-snakebite-kits-including-the-venom-extractor\">warn against using commercially sold snakebite kits\u003c/a>. While the idea of “sucking out the poison” using a tool seems like a solution, the reality is that snake venom instantly diffuses away from the wound and cannot be extracted this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, extraction tools can even force the venom further into your body or harm the site of the bite. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK431065/\">The antivenom you receive at the hospital is most effective\u003c/a> the sooner it is administered, so getting help should be your first priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other potential risks for Bay Area hikers to watch for\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801419\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A coyote pair enjoys a relaxed afternoon in a secluded part of a park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janet Kessler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poison oak\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7431.html\">Poison oak,\u003c/a> whose three-sided leaves look oily, will leave a reaction on most peoples’ skin. Staying on trail is your best bet to avoid a rash, but if you do touch any irritating plants, wash your skin immediately and see a doctor if the rash spreads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ticks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayarealyme.org/about-lyme/what-causes-lyme-disease/blacklegged-tick/\">Ticks, which position themselves on long grasses hoping to grab hold as you brush by, can carry Lyme disease\u003c/a>. Wear long-sleeved clothing, use insect repellent and stay on trails to avoid ticks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to staying on designated trails and out of dense foliage, Mason advises checking yourself and your pets for ticks after any outdoor activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Give them a once-over, once you get back to your car or back away from the trail,” Mason said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do find a tick on your skin, remove it using tweezers or a tissue and scrape the skin (a credit card works great for this) to remove any of its body parts left behind. Then wash your hands and the bite area thoroughly, and seek medical attention if you later recognize \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/signs-symptoms/index.html\">any symptoms of Lyme disease\u003c/a>, which include a rash, fever, headache and stiffness around the bite area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11880481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/ticks_types-jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/ticks_types-jpeg.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/ticks_types-jpeg-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Six common types of adult female ticks. Top row, left to right: Lone star, Black-legged, Asian long-horned. Bottom row, left to right: Gulf coast, American dog, Rocky mountain wood \u003ccite>((Top row, left to right) Public Health Image Library, Wikimedia Commons, James Gathany/CDC (Bottom row, left to right) Public Health Image Library, Patrick Gorring/iNaturalist, Public Health Image Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roaming animals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parks department advises keeping your distance around cattle and avoiding getting between a mother and her calf. Don’t try to touch or pet cows, and keep dogs and kids away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/safety/wildlife-encounters\">That goes for any other wild animals, too\u003c/a>. Coyotes, deer and mountain lions all inhabit local parks but should never be fed, approached or petted. Even though most aren’t dangerous by nature, they can become unpredictable if surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The important thing really is knowing that when you’re going out there that you’re in a wild area — and to be cautious of your surroundings,” Mason said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCeDp_MY_h4G6VWj_-VPl-BJlQ3Uya2H0vxRZZd_47BpXwVA/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#rattlesnake-bite-what-to-do\">What should I do if a rattlesnake bites me?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/california-sixth-person-bitten-rattlesnake\"> two people \u003c/a>have already died in 2026 after being bitten by rattlesnakes in California, both in Ventura County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native to California and the Bay Area, rattlesnakes are common on local trails in areas like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/maps\">Anthony Chabot, Tilden and Diablo Foothills regional parks\u003c/a> – but you should take them seriously, EBRPD spokesperson Dave Mason told KQED in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely important to be cautious for us humans – and also our pets,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you or your pup stumble across a rattlesnake in the wild, what should you do?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>First off: How can I recognize a rattlesnake?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/common_snakes.pdf\">The rattlesnakes local to the Bay Area\u003c/a> tend to be brown or black, matching the general color of the soil they inhabit. Their skin is dull-colored with large blotches, and their head is flat and triangular with folds of skin at its tail forming a “rattle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, you may be more likely to recognize a rattlesnake by ear. True to their name, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nYnVPba4g\">they make a “rattling” sound\u003c/a> that makes them easy to distinguish from other, less harmful snakes:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/d0nYnVPba4g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/d0nYnVPba4g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2bBSdxIEjs\">Rattlesnakes are often confused with gopher snakes\u003c/a>, which have similar coloration and length. The key differences to keep are the gopher snake’s glossy skin and more slender head and body. Unlike rattlesnakes, gopher snakes are not venomous.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>When should I most watch out for rattlesnakes — and where? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>EBRPD’s Mason said that like all reptiles, rattlesnakes become more active in warmer weather — as do humans. This is the reason that \u003ca href=\"https://calpoison.org/about-rattlesnakes\">encounters between the two species tend to happen most between April and October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While snakes can be found all over these East Bay parks and preserves, many encounters happen out on hiking trails and fire roads, Mason said — often in grassy areas. This is why he advises: “Don’t go off the trails into the grass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1335px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11743401\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/image-from-ios-1-_wide-a3f0899f95013c976164e2ee22a7ab7e85f9be71-e1556467826638.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1335\" height=\"751\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer Michael Lee Jackson hops out of his Toyota to capture a closer view of a rattlesnake sunning itself on the dirt road. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to staying on designated trails, try to scan the ground while walking. When sitting down, examine your chosen spot first and try not to put your hands or feet anywhere you can’t clearly see. Keep your dog on a leash to keep yourself and your pet safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, hiking alone means it might be harder to find speedy medical attention if you do get bitten — so consider finding a hiking buddy during these warmer months when the risks of rattlesnake encounters are higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I do if I see a rattlesnake?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Give the snake plenty of space immediately, Mason advised. Do not try to capture or harm a snake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, you will hear a rattlesnake before you see it — so when that happens, “be wary, look around and get away from it as quickly as possible,” he said. “Go around it. Leave it alone. They are part of nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re out hiking with your dog and you see a snake, calmly and slowly steer them away from it. \u003ca href=\"https://napahumane.org/rattlesnake-season-safety-tips-and-rattlesnake-avoidance-training-options/\">Some experts even recommend rattlesnake avoidance training\u003c/a> for your dog. If you’re interested, make sure you find a certified training professional using humane science-based methods, which can help teach dogs to respond to scents and cues to avoid bites.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"rattlesnake-bite-what-to-do\">\u003c/a>If a rattlesnake bites me, what should I do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5393596.pdf\">Around 8,000 people in the U.S. are bitten by rattlesnakes every year\u003c/a>, usually on the hands, feet and ankles. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After immediately calling 911, try to sit or lie down, keeping the bite below your heart. Most importantly, keep the area of the bite in a neutral, comfortable position. If possible, you should gently wash the wound with any clean water you have nearby — like from your water bottle or a fast-moving stream — and soap if you have it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/outdoor-workers/about/venomous-snakes.html\">The CDC recommends\u003c/a> taking note of the time the bite occurred by actually writing it on your skin next to the wound and removing any jewelry or watches that might constrict swelling. Around 25% of bites are “dry,” meaning the snake did not use venom, but even those bites still need to be treated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBRPD advised against using tourniquets or snakebite kits (more on this below) and said \u003cem>not \u003c/em>to try sucking out the venom. You also shouldn’t take any medications like ibuprofen or acetaminophen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re bitten while hiking alone, walk slowly to get help. While this might feel counterintuitive, the CDC warns that running increases your heart rate and could spread the venom more quickly throughout your body, as could driving yourself to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/common_snakes.pdf\">Other types of snake bites\u003c/a> — like a bite from the Pacific gopher snake — can be treated with soap and water, but medical attention is still advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why shouldn’t I use a snakebite kit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts \u003ca href=\"https://www.snakebitefoundation.org/blog/the-truth-about-commercial-snakebite-kits-including-the-venom-extractor\">warn against using commercially sold snakebite kits\u003c/a>. While the idea of “sucking out the poison” using a tool seems like a solution, the reality is that snake venom instantly diffuses away from the wound and cannot be extracted this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, extraction tools can even force the venom further into your body or harm the site of the bite. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK431065/\">The antivenom you receive at the hospital is most effective\u003c/a> the sooner it is administered, so getting help should be your first priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other potential risks for Bay Area hikers to watch for\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801419\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41107_Coyote-Pair-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A coyote pair enjoys a relaxed afternoon in a secluded part of a park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janet Kessler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poison oak\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7431.html\">Poison oak,\u003c/a> whose three-sided leaves look oily, will leave a reaction on most peoples’ skin. Staying on trail is your best bet to avoid a rash, but if you do touch any irritating plants, wash your skin immediately and see a doctor if the rash spreads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ticks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayarealyme.org/about-lyme/what-causes-lyme-disease/blacklegged-tick/\">Ticks, which position themselves on long grasses hoping to grab hold as you brush by, can carry Lyme disease\u003c/a>. Wear long-sleeved clothing, use insect repellent and stay on trails to avoid ticks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to staying on designated trails and out of dense foliage, Mason advises checking yourself and your pets for ticks after any outdoor activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Give them a once-over, once you get back to your car or back away from the trail,” Mason said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do find a tick on your skin, remove it using tweezers or a tissue and scrape the skin (a credit card works great for this) to remove any of its body parts left behind. Then wash your hands and the bite area thoroughly, and seek medical attention if you later recognize \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/signs-symptoms/index.html\">any symptoms of Lyme disease\u003c/a>, which include a rash, fever, headache and stiffness around the bite area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11880481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/ticks_types-jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/ticks_types-jpeg.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/ticks_types-jpeg-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Six common types of adult female ticks. Top row, left to right: Lone star, Black-legged, Asian long-horned. 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"content": "\u003cp>Chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, hamburgers and fries are all staples of children’s menus in restaurants across the country today — an easy, appealing choice for the young ones at the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Helen Zoe Veit, associate professor of history at Michigan State University, said that in the 1930s, those foods weren’t common menu items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see a lot of lamb. You see a lot of spinach. You see prunes,” Veit said. “And the idea was this is normal kids’ food back then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her new book, \u003cem>Picky: How American Children Became the Fussiest Eaters in History\u003c/em>, Veit argues that kids used to be much more adventurous eaters than they are today. But a mixture of lifestyle and parenting changes, marketing and the rise of processed foods has made American children very selective eaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real mission behind the book is to get a more expansive sense back into our culture of what kids are capable of liking,” she said recently on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101913144/why-are-american-kids-such-picky-eaters\">KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> program. “Far from the myth that we have that, ‘OK, maybe you could force your kid to hatefully accept these foods.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12078821 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FrenchFriesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FrenchFriesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FrenchFriesGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FrenchFriesGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mixture of lifestyle and parenting changes, marketing and the rise of processed foods has made American children very selective eaters, according to Helen Zoe Veit, associate professor of history at Michigan State University \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To get us back toward this idea of teaching kids to love diverse foods. To get actual, authentic pleasure and a much bigger sense of pleasure back into kids’ food,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> spoke to Veit and UC Davis pediatrician Dr. Erik Fernandez y Garcia about how children became such picky eaters — and what parents can do to encourage more adventurous eating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mina Kim: So, how \u003cem>did\u003c/em> American children use to eat? Has it always been like this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit:\u003c/strong> Americans, in general, in let’s say the 19th century, ate so much more diversely than we do today in terms of species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ate an incredible variety of plant species, a lot more heirloom varieties, wild plants, lots more animal species than we do — all sorts of different kinds of birds, and fish, and shellfish and organ meats. And the crucial thing is that children, with very few exceptions, generally ate what their parents were eating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The even more crucial part is that they weren’t just eating the food. Everybody agreed they liked it. There was a broad idea that kids love to eat. They’re naturally omnivorous.[aside postID=forum_2010101913144 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2026/03/PICKY.jpg']When we think today why did kids eat more broadly in the past, we usually make two assumptions. One is scarcity. We imagine, “OK, there wasn’t enough food to go around, so kids were forcing down hated foods as the only alternative to starvation.” Or we might imagine it was harsh discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the fascinating thing from history is that, really, neither is true. Now, that being said, hunger is important. And there were plenty of people in the past who were poor. There were desperately poor people in America, and poor kids, by all accounts, ate eagerly. However, middle-class kids, children of the wealthiest families, farm children who were living in situations of abundance, they were eating eagerly, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were doing more chores, they were walking more, they were spending more time outside, and they weren’t snacking much. Snacks were logistically hard. Before you had plastics, highly processed food, and refrigerators, there wasn’t a whole lot of edible food available between meals. So kids showed up to meals with really big appetites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not advocating for a return to some of the child labor practices that were going on. But certainly, probably, there are lots of kids who would be happier if they were moving around more during the day. We know exercise is important for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How would you characterize kids’ eating habits \u003cem>today\u003c/em>? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>Many parents are just trying to do the best they possibly can to feed their kids. They want their kids to be happy, they want to please their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’ve gotten a lot of marketing messages and other messages. There are a lot of myths swirling about children’s foods, that to please our kids, we have to feed them a pretty narrow range of foods. There are a lot of products in the supermarket that are geared specifically toward kids. Children’s food has become its own genre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony for me is that so much of modern kids’ food is actually about displeasure. It’s about helping kids avoid all of these foods that they’re supposedly incapable of liking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think modern parenting influenced these kinds of habits?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>Parenting around food is so hard today. For many families, it’s the hardest thing about parenting. And that’s not something I say lightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is because parents have been put in this impossible position. On the one hand, they’ve been told, “Be so careful about talking to your kids about food. Never push them to eat anything in particular. Kids are natural rebels. If you push them to eat something, they will develop lifelong aversions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12078825 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/kideatingchickennuggetsgetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/kideatingchickennuggetsgetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/kideatingchickennuggetsgetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/kideatingchickennuggetsgetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the previous generations, kids were acquiring taste as soon as they were learning to eat, according to Helen Zoe Veit, associate professor of history at Michigan State University. \u003ccite>(Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[Or] “If you pushed them to a particular quantity, they’ll never develop a sense of authentic fullness, and that will lead to overeating and maybe obesity.” Or, “If you make food too emotional or too stressful, that could lead to disordered eating, even eating disorders.” Parents are so scared about doing the wrong thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the same time, they’re told kids’ health is actually really important. Childhood obesity rates are rising. Children are developing these chronic diseases in childhood, such as type 2 diabetes, heart problems, high blood pressure, all of these things that in the past were rare. Parents feel paralyzed. They don’t know what to do. They feel stuck. A lot of parents today have the sense that children need special, separate meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do processed meals come into the mix? How did that influence how kids eat?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>The flood of highly processed foods into many American homes in the mid-20th century is another big factor in establishing new expectations for how easy it might be for children to like foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, if you hear that something’s an acquired taste, we think that means it’s an adult food. That’s synonymous with adulthood for us. In the previous generations, kids were acquiring taste as soon as they were learning to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once highly processed foods enter American homes, it’s clear that there are lots of foods kids don’t have to acquire the taste for. They like them instantly. And so it becomes less of a natural part of many families’ lives to try to teach kids to like food over an extended period of time. At the same time, psychologists start telling parents that it’s psychologically risky to talk to your kids too much about what they should eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marketing played a huge role. Marketing just was shamelessly directed at kids in the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s, even in ways that today we’d probably be a little uncomfortable with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is there this emphasis on children’s food needing to be bland?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit:\u003c/strong> Back in the 19th century, a lot of children got sick and died. The number one cause of death was epidemic disease. But the number two cause was unrefrigerated food and food poisoning.[aside postID=news_12078168 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg']But the problem was that back in the 19th century, before the last part of the century, Americans didn’t know about germs. They didn’t know about viruses, microbes, contagion. They didn’t understand how this worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was this group of reformers saying, “It must be the food.” The very fact that children were such broad eaters, they didn’t see that as fabulous back then. These reformers said, “I think it’s all this diverse food, this over-stimulating food.” It’s what we today would see as pseudoscience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was this real advocacy campaign to encourage parents to feed their children blander food. Now, not a lot of parents listened back in the 19th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were relatively fringy ideas, but they started to catch on much more broadly in the early 20th century. By then, it was less about preventing child death, since germ theory was being established and mortality rates were falling. But it was more about protecting children’s supposedly vulnerable stomachs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does the taste of the food come into play? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>It’s almost hard as a cultural historian to say this, but I do think deliciousness matters. So, on the one hand, highly processed food is flooding into Americans’ homes [in the mid-20th century.] It’s been designed in laboratories to be really palatable, to be salty, sweet, fatty, melty, crunchy, to have all of these properties that we really love at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooking styles had changed. So a lot of the vegetables were frozen or canned, or even the ones that were nominally fresh, they’d been shipped across the country or sometimes the world. They’d been stored for long periods of time. They weren’t as flavorful or fresh as the vegetables enjoyed in previous generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students learn how to cut vegetables for a salad at the North Bay Children’s Center in Novato on Aug. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I do think cooking can be a really important tool. Now, of course, that leads to all sorts of other questions, like time. Do we have time to cook? How are our work-life balances structured? How are families structured? Who is doing this work? It also leads to things like, do we know how to cook in the first place?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the many things that I think could help with pickiness and maybe with life in general is if we reintroduced cooking classes to public schools. This is another thing that used to happen in the past. Of course, it used to be pretty gendered through home economics programs, at least in the mid-20th century. But we could reimagine public education to include this, maybe most basic of life skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How is this an American phenomenon — and is it spreading?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>There’s so much to learn from other countries. Now, that being said, pickiness is spreading around the world. Where our highly processed food supply goes, so do ideas about children’s pickiness. And so also goes rising child obesity rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are still lots of places where you can find totally non-picky children. I actually just heard recently from a pediatrician who works in Harlem, and he works with a lot of children of West African immigrants there. And he says they arrive in the U.S. with fabulous diets. They love vegetables. They love all sorts of diverse foods. And they have pretty healthy BMIs. They’re tall. And then, within just a few years of being exposed to standard American children’s food, we see the same kind of health problems that we see with other kids. They adopt this highly palatable, more processed diet, and other problems ensue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So what can you do to prevent picky eating before it occurs?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fernandez y Garcia: \u003c/strong>There’s a lot of fear that parents have around the types of foods that they can start their kids on, following this idea that there are certain textures and purees that are safer for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I think that that misunderstanding of child physiology and anatomy of what they can handle leads them to restrict the types of foods that they’re having when they first begin to be able to have solid foods, which for us is generally around six months of age when they can hold their head up nice and straight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006360 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents can help picky eaters develop broader tastes by introducing a variety of flavors early — from pureed meats like chicken, fish and beef to soft, chewable foods such as corn on the cob or avocados that build familiarity and oral skills. \u003ccite>(d3sign/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So one way to avoid it is to start at that time, introducing lots of different tastes, textures — things that you prepare at home for yourself as an adult and let kids have at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[For my kids], there were some things that we did puree, and we started pretty early introducing them to different types of meats: chicken, fish, beef, pureed. But we also integrated things that they could chew on, that had flavor, had taste. But they couldn’t necessarily [eat] given their lack of teeth and jaw strength. You can gnaw pretty well on a corn cob, for example. Or on a bagel that’s frozen. These types of things stimulate the chew reflex. It activates a lot of the developing taste buds. So they can have a mix of both pureed stuff and things that are chewable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fernandez y Garcia:\u003c/strong> I think that feeding and learning to eat a broader array of varied foods is very developmental. And as kids grow and as they learn, there are influences from society and from our families that can help direct that to the outcome that we want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, we want them to eat varied food. So if we’re sitting at the table at our set times, it’s a positive thing. It’s an enjoyable thing, it’s time you get to spend with your family, people are making positive comments about the food that they’re enjoying, and all of that positivity and all that positive feedback, of course, will lead to them enjoying food in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How about for neurodivergent children who may have barriers to certain textures and colors?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fernandez y Garcia:\u003c/strong> That is a very, very real cause. There’s celiac disease, there’s allergies to foods, you can have a lot of different gastrointestinal problems. Kids with chronic illnesses have a limited appetite. There are children who have difficulty with the oral motor function, or how they swallow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And personality: some kids are just more rigid. And there’s neurodiversity. I think that all of these different things we have to work through and determine if that is a cause. And then if it’s something like that — which is a very small percentage of the kids who have picky eating — we would ask for help from our developmental specialists, our nutritionists, and there are different techniques that people whose kids have these different conditions can follow to make sure that they have a nutritious, balanced food intake that also is varied but it does take some special interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11930253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11930253 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/ap22167671296428_custom-69436829a3251414dd4eda942942bc4d31ccbb0f-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Trays of apples and orange slices.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1142\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/ap22167671296428_custom-69436829a3251414dd4eda942942bc4d31ccbb0f-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/ap22167671296428_custom-69436829a3251414dd4eda942942bc4d31ccbb0f-s1600-c85-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/ap22167671296428_custom-69436829a3251414dd4eda942942bc4d31ccbb0f-s1600-c85-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/ap22167671296428_custom-69436829a3251414dd4eda942942bc4d31ccbb0f-s1600-c85-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/ap22167671296428_custom-69436829a3251414dd4eda942942bc4d31ccbb0f-s1600-c85-1536x1096.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apples and orange slices rest in trays for student lunch at the Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School, in Essex Junction, Vermont on June 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Lisa Rathke/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>ARFID stands for Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. It is an eating disorder that was identified in 2012. It’s vital that if a child is really struggling to eat, parents seek medical help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some of our explanations for pickiness or problem eating, especially when they relate to things like texture or color, as a historian, I will just note that you don’t really see those historically. No one in the past thought children had issues around color. If they were talking about color, they were saying things like, “Add spinach and tomatoes because that bright color contrast will be so appealing to young children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now this, again, doesn’t mean there aren’t biological aspects of what’s going on. Some children come out of the womb much pickier than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[But in many cases,] training and practice. We don’t think about this with children’s food a lot, but when given repeated multiple positive exposures, it turns out — certainly history suggests — that children can get used to vastly more interesting things than we think today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is an indicator that this could be a more serious issue that could use intervention?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fernandez y Garcia:\u003c/strong> When you were talking about ARFID, one of the things that defines that is significant weight loss or inability to eat a varied enough diet to keep kids from having the nutritional, the broadness of nutritional intake that they need to grow normally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents need to ask themselves often, “Why are they so concerned that their child is picky?” And the answer to that will often lead us to determine whether or not it’s a warning sign of something biomechanical or biological.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are some shifts that you would like to see?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>I think one of the deepest is parents having confidence that kids are actually capable of learning to like broad foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And of course, some of the comments from earlier, I just want to emphasize, if your child is having trouble eating, seek medical advice. 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And if we can re-inject that confidence into parenting, I think that’s probably the biggest single tool that parents have — when presenting their kids with food, talking with them about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11927059\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS54940_009_KQED_JasmineCuevasFamily_03302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS54940_009_KQED_JasmineCuevasFamily_03302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS54940_009_KQED_JasmineCuevasFamily_03302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS54940_009_KQED_JasmineCuevasFamily_03302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS54940_009_KQED_JasmineCuevasFamily_03302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS54940_009_KQED_JasmineCuevasFamily_03302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Cuevas talks with her four children during dinner at their home in East Palo Alto on March 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another thing, too, is that parents have been told, “Don’t talk to your kids about health because health is boring. Don’t push any particular food because that will make a child hate it.” There’s no good evidence for that. There’s lots of evidence in the past that when parents enthusiastically promoted the foods they liked to eat, it helped kids learn to like them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can enthusiastically talk about the foods you love to eat. And you don’t have to hold back. Kids are capable of learning to like spicy foods, garlicky foods, fermented foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you do if your kid is \u003cem>already\u003c/em> a picky eater?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>From history, for most humans, there weren’t alternative meals. It wasn’t possible to create this alternative meal before refrigeration, highly processed foods or microwaves. And I know it’s so uncomfortable for parents because we’ve been told you’ll mess your kids up. But the idea that there’s one meal and that’s what there is, and if you don’t eat it, the consequence of not eating is hunger. This is not hunger as punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, you have deep confidence that they can learn to like this food, but it’s a consequence of you not eating this beautiful family meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re comfortable having that kind of structure when it comes to seat belts, or tooth brushing, or going to school. We’re comfortable with the idea that some things kids just have to do. That could be a step toward getting your children to learn to love those foods again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fernandez y Garcia:\u003c/strong> Every family, again, has their own tolerances and their own approach to parenting and behavior change. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her new book, \u003cem>Picky: How American Children Became the Fussiest Eaters in History\u003c/em>, Veit argues that kids used to be much more adventurous eaters than they are today. But a mixture of lifestyle and parenting changes, marketing and the rise of processed foods has made American children very selective eaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real mission behind the book is to get a more expansive sense back into our culture of what kids are capable of liking,” she said recently on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101913144/why-are-american-kids-such-picky-eaters\">KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> program. “Far from the myth that we have that, ‘OK, maybe you could force your kid to hatefully accept these foods.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12078821 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FrenchFriesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FrenchFriesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FrenchFriesGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/FrenchFriesGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mixture of lifestyle and parenting changes, marketing and the rise of processed foods has made American children very selective eaters, according to Helen Zoe Veit, associate professor of history at Michigan State University \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To get us back toward this idea of teaching kids to love diverse foods. To get actual, authentic pleasure and a much bigger sense of pleasure back into kids’ food,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> spoke to Veit and UC Davis pediatrician Dr. Erik Fernandez y Garcia about how children became such picky eaters — and what parents can do to encourage more adventurous eating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mina Kim: So, how \u003cem>did\u003c/em> American children use to eat? Has it always been like this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit:\u003c/strong> Americans, in general, in let’s say the 19th century, ate so much more diversely than we do today in terms of species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ate an incredible variety of plant species, a lot more heirloom varieties, wild plants, lots more animal species than we do — all sorts of different kinds of birds, and fish, and shellfish and organ meats. And the crucial thing is that children, with very few exceptions, generally ate what their parents were eating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The even more crucial part is that they weren’t just eating the food. Everybody agreed they liked it. There was a broad idea that kids love to eat. They’re naturally omnivorous.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When we think today why did kids eat more broadly in the past, we usually make two assumptions. One is scarcity. We imagine, “OK, there wasn’t enough food to go around, so kids were forcing down hated foods as the only alternative to starvation.” Or we might imagine it was harsh discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the fascinating thing from history is that, really, neither is true. Now, that being said, hunger is important. And there were plenty of people in the past who were poor. There were desperately poor people in America, and poor kids, by all accounts, ate eagerly. However, middle-class kids, children of the wealthiest families, farm children who were living in situations of abundance, they were eating eagerly, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were doing more chores, they were walking more, they were spending more time outside, and they weren’t snacking much. Snacks were logistically hard. Before you had plastics, highly processed food, and refrigerators, there wasn’t a whole lot of edible food available between meals. So kids showed up to meals with really big appetites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not advocating for a return to some of the child labor practices that were going on. But certainly, probably, there are lots of kids who would be happier if they were moving around more during the day. We know exercise is important for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How would you characterize kids’ eating habits \u003cem>today\u003c/em>? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>Many parents are just trying to do the best they possibly can to feed their kids. They want their kids to be happy, they want to please their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’ve gotten a lot of marketing messages and other messages. There are a lot of myths swirling about children’s foods, that to please our kids, we have to feed them a pretty narrow range of foods. There are a lot of products in the supermarket that are geared specifically toward kids. Children’s food has become its own genre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony for me is that so much of modern kids’ food is actually about displeasure. It’s about helping kids avoid all of these foods that they’re supposedly incapable of liking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think modern parenting influenced these kinds of habits?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>Parenting around food is so hard today. For many families, it’s the hardest thing about parenting. And that’s not something I say lightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is because parents have been put in this impossible position. On the one hand, they’ve been told, “Be so careful about talking to your kids about food. Never push them to eat anything in particular. Kids are natural rebels. If you push them to eat something, they will develop lifelong aversions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12078825 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/kideatingchickennuggetsgetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/kideatingchickennuggetsgetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/kideatingchickennuggetsgetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/kideatingchickennuggetsgetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the previous generations, kids were acquiring taste as soon as they were learning to eat, according to Helen Zoe Veit, associate professor of history at Michigan State University. \u003ccite>(Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[Or] “If you pushed them to a particular quantity, they’ll never develop a sense of authentic fullness, and that will lead to overeating and maybe obesity.” Or, “If you make food too emotional or too stressful, that could lead to disordered eating, even eating disorders.” Parents are so scared about doing the wrong thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the same time, they’re told kids’ health is actually really important. Childhood obesity rates are rising. Children are developing these chronic diseases in childhood, such as type 2 diabetes, heart problems, high blood pressure, all of these things that in the past were rare. Parents feel paralyzed. They don’t know what to do. They feel stuck. A lot of parents today have the sense that children need special, separate meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do processed meals come into the mix? How did that influence how kids eat?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>The flood of highly processed foods into many American homes in the mid-20th century is another big factor in establishing new expectations for how easy it might be for children to like foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, if you hear that something’s an acquired taste, we think that means it’s an adult food. That’s synonymous with adulthood for us. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the problem was that back in the 19th century, before the last part of the century, Americans didn’t know about germs. They didn’t know about viruses, microbes, contagion. They didn’t understand how this worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was this group of reformers saying, “It must be the food.” The very fact that children were such broad eaters, they didn’t see that as fabulous back then. These reformers said, “I think it’s all this diverse food, this over-stimulating food.” It’s what we today would see as pseudoscience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was this real advocacy campaign to encourage parents to feed their children blander food. Now, not a lot of parents listened back in the 19th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were relatively fringy ideas, but they started to catch on much more broadly in the early 20th century. By then, it was less about preventing child death, since germ theory was being established and mortality rates were falling. But it was more about protecting children’s supposedly vulnerable stomachs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does the taste of the food come into play? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>It’s almost hard as a cultural historian to say this, but I do think deliciousness matters. So, on the one hand, highly processed food is flooding into Americans’ homes [in the mid-20th century.] It’s been designed in laboratories to be really palatable, to be salty, sweet, fatty, melty, crunchy, to have all of these properties that we really love at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooking styles had changed. So a lot of the vegetables were frozen or canned, or even the ones that were nominally fresh, they’d been shipped across the country or sometimes the world. They’d been stored for long periods of time. They weren’t as flavorful or fresh as the vegetables enjoyed in previous generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students learn how to cut vegetables for a salad at the North Bay Children’s Center in Novato on Aug. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I do think cooking can be a really important tool. Now, of course, that leads to all sorts of other questions, like time. Do we have time to cook? How are our work-life balances structured? How are families structured? Who is doing this work? It also leads to things like, do we know how to cook in the first place?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the many things that I think could help with pickiness and maybe with life in general is if we reintroduced cooking classes to public schools. This is another thing that used to happen in the past. Of course, it used to be pretty gendered through home economics programs, at least in the mid-20th century. But we could reimagine public education to include this, maybe most basic of life skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How is this an American phenomenon — and is it spreading?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>There’s so much to learn from other countries. Now, that being said, pickiness is spreading around the world. Where our highly processed food supply goes, so do ideas about children’s pickiness. And so also goes rising child obesity rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are still lots of places where you can find totally non-picky children. I actually just heard recently from a pediatrician who works in Harlem, and he works with a lot of children of West African immigrants there. And he says they arrive in the U.S. with fabulous diets. They love vegetables. They love all sorts of diverse foods. And they have pretty healthy BMIs. They’re tall. And then, within just a few years of being exposed to standard American children’s food, we see the same kind of health problems that we see with other kids. They adopt this highly palatable, more processed diet, and other problems ensue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So what can you do to prevent picky eating before it occurs?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fernandez y Garcia: \u003c/strong>There’s a lot of fear that parents have around the types of foods that they can start their kids on, following this idea that there are certain textures and purees that are safer for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I think that that misunderstanding of child physiology and anatomy of what they can handle leads them to restrict the types of foods that they’re having when they first begin to be able to have solid foods, which for us is generally around six months of age when they can hold their head up nice and straight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006360 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1226633171-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents can help picky eaters develop broader tastes by introducing a variety of flavors early — from pureed meats like chicken, fish and beef to soft, chewable foods such as corn on the cob or avocados that build familiarity and oral skills. \u003ccite>(d3sign/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So one way to avoid it is to start at that time, introducing lots of different tastes, textures — things that you prepare at home for yourself as an adult and let kids have at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[For my kids], there were some things that we did puree, and we started pretty early introducing them to different types of meats: chicken, fish, beef, pureed. But we also integrated things that they could chew on, that had flavor, had taste. But they couldn’t necessarily [eat] given their lack of teeth and jaw strength. You can gnaw pretty well on a corn cob, for example. Or on a bagel that’s frozen. These types of things stimulate the chew reflex. It activates a lot of the developing taste buds. So they can have a mix of both pureed stuff and things that are chewable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fernandez y Garcia:\u003c/strong> I think that feeding and learning to eat a broader array of varied foods is very developmental. And as kids grow and as they learn, there are influences from society and from our families that can help direct that to the outcome that we want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, we want them to eat varied food. So if we’re sitting at the table at our set times, it’s a positive thing. It’s an enjoyable thing, it’s time you get to spend with your family, people are making positive comments about the food that they’re enjoying, and all of that positivity and all that positive feedback, of course, will lead to them enjoying food in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How about for neurodivergent children who may have barriers to certain textures and colors?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fernandez y Garcia:\u003c/strong> That is a very, very real cause. There’s celiac disease, there’s allergies to foods, you can have a lot of different gastrointestinal problems. Kids with chronic illnesses have a limited appetite. There are children who have difficulty with the oral motor function, or how they swallow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And personality: some kids are just more rigid. And there’s neurodiversity. I think that all of these different things we have to work through and determine if that is a cause. And then if it’s something like that — which is a very small percentage of the kids who have picky eating — we would ask for help from our developmental specialists, our nutritionists, and there are different techniques that people whose kids have these different conditions can follow to make sure that they have a nutritious, balanced food intake that also is varied but it does take some special interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11930253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11930253 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/ap22167671296428_custom-69436829a3251414dd4eda942942bc4d31ccbb0f-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Trays of apples and orange slices.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1142\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/ap22167671296428_custom-69436829a3251414dd4eda942942bc4d31ccbb0f-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/ap22167671296428_custom-69436829a3251414dd4eda942942bc4d31ccbb0f-s1600-c85-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/ap22167671296428_custom-69436829a3251414dd4eda942942bc4d31ccbb0f-s1600-c85-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/ap22167671296428_custom-69436829a3251414dd4eda942942bc4d31ccbb0f-s1600-c85-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/ap22167671296428_custom-69436829a3251414dd4eda942942bc4d31ccbb0f-s1600-c85-1536x1096.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apples and orange slices rest in trays for student lunch at the Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School, in Essex Junction, Vermont on June 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Lisa Rathke/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>ARFID stands for Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. It is an eating disorder that was identified in 2012. It’s vital that if a child is really struggling to eat, parents seek medical help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some of our explanations for pickiness or problem eating, especially when they relate to things like texture or color, as a historian, I will just note that you don’t really see those historically. No one in the past thought children had issues around color. If they were talking about color, they were saying things like, “Add spinach and tomatoes because that bright color contrast will be so appealing to young children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now this, again, doesn’t mean there aren’t biological aspects of what’s going on. Some children come out of the womb much pickier than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[But in many cases,] training and practice. We don’t think about this with children’s food a lot, but when given repeated multiple positive exposures, it turns out — certainly history suggests — that children can get used to vastly more interesting things than we think today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is an indicator that this could be a more serious issue that could use intervention?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fernandez y Garcia:\u003c/strong> When you were talking about ARFID, one of the things that defines that is significant weight loss or inability to eat a varied enough diet to keep kids from having the nutritional, the broadness of nutritional intake that they need to grow normally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents need to ask themselves often, “Why are they so concerned that their child is picky?” And the answer to that will often lead us to determine whether or not it’s a warning sign of something biomechanical or biological.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are some shifts that you would like to see?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>I think one of the deepest is parents having confidence that kids are actually capable of learning to like broad foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And of course, some of the comments from earlier, I just want to emphasize, if your child is having trouble eating, seek medical advice. This is crucial. There could be allergies, intolerances or other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what we see when we look across the world or in the American past is this stunning diversity of foods that kids used to genuinely enjoy. And if we can re-inject that confidence into parenting, I think that’s probably the biggest single tool that parents have — when presenting their kids with food, talking with them about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11927059\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS54940_009_KQED_JasmineCuevasFamily_03302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS54940_009_KQED_JasmineCuevasFamily_03302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS54940_009_KQED_JasmineCuevasFamily_03302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS54940_009_KQED_JasmineCuevasFamily_03302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS54940_009_KQED_JasmineCuevasFamily_03302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS54940_009_KQED_JasmineCuevasFamily_03302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Cuevas talks with her four children during dinner at their home in East Palo Alto on March 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another thing, too, is that parents have been told, “Don’t talk to your kids about health because health is boring. Don’t push any particular food because that will make a child hate it.” There’s no good evidence for that. There’s lots of evidence in the past that when parents enthusiastically promoted the foods they liked to eat, it helped kids learn to like them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can enthusiastically talk about the foods you love to eat. And you don’t have to hold back. Kids are capable of learning to like spicy foods, garlicky foods, fermented foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you do if your kid is \u003cem>already\u003c/em> a picky eater?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Veit: \u003c/strong>From history, for most humans, there weren’t alternative meals. It wasn’t possible to create this alternative meal before refrigeration, highly processed foods or microwaves. And I know it’s so uncomfortable for parents because we’ve been told you’ll mess your kids up. But the idea that there’s one meal and that’s what there is, and if you don’t eat it, the consequence of not eating is hunger. This is not hunger as punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, you have deep confidence that they can learn to like this food, but it’s a consequence of you not eating this beautiful family meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re comfortable having that kind of structure when it comes to seat belts, or tooth brushing, or going to school. We’re comfortable with the idea that some things kids just have to do. That could be a step toward getting your children to learn to love those foods again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fernandez y Garcia:\u003c/strong> Every family, again, has their own tolerances and their own approach to parenting and behavior change. Because that’s what we’re talking about: behavior change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avoiding negative feedback for things that we don’t like is much less effective than giving positive feedback when the behavior that we want happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re going to have alternate foods, those should be foods that you choose as alternate foods. So if you cook a meal and the child doesn’t like it, you can give them an alternative, but that is one that the parent chooses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the clock counts down to Easter Sunday, one question is on the lips of many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Franciscans\u003c/a>: Who will win this year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992138/san-franciscos-hunky-jesus-contest-to-happen-rain-or-shine\">Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary Contest\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than 40 years, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence\">Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence\u003c/a>, a legendary San Francisco order of drag nuns, have invited the community to \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesisters.org/easter\">Easter in the Park\u003c/a>, a celebration taking place on Sunday at Dolores Park — with this legendary contest at its heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year, thousands of Bay Area residents fill up the park to watch the competition, plus performances and family-friendly events earlier in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many also show up simply to revel in the merriment of getting together with friends surrounded by music and laughter, accompanied by fabulous views of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#WhendoestheHunkyJesuscontestbegin\"> When does the Hunky Jesus contest begin?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The Easter in the Park celebration includes an egg hunt for families at 10 a.m. in the northeast section of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11741046\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36592_SistersPerpetualIndulgenceHunkyJesusCompetition-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36592_SistersPerpetualIndulgenceHunkyJesusCompetition-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36592_SistersPerpetualIndulgenceHunkyJesusCompetition-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36592_SistersPerpetualIndulgenceHunkyJesusCompetition-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36592_SistersPerpetualIndulgenceHunkyJesusCompetition-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36592_SistersPerpetualIndulgenceHunkyJesusCompetition-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s Hunky Jesus Competition in Dolores Park, San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Jere via Wikipedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the main event starts at noon, with performances and an Easter Bonnet contest chaired by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s Sister Roma, drag queen Peaches Christ and political activist and drag performer Honey Mahogany as this year’s emcees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, at 2:30 p.m., the audience will decide who among the contestants — dressed either as hunky replicas of Jesus or foxy versions of the Virgin Mary — should join the fabled ranks of past winners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t mistake this for a beauty contest, Sister Roma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hunky Jesus doesn’t just mean that you get up there, have a gorgeous body, be handsome, stand there and flex,” Sister Roma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s Hunky Jesus title went to San Francisco producer and performer Wild West, who came in riding \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIztMUcz4D_/\">a life-sized chrome-covered model buffalo\u003c/a> while waving a Pride flag, in partial tribute to Beyonce’s \u003cem>Cowboy Carter\u003c/em> album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078690\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8525.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8525-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8525-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes from the 2025 Easter in the Park event in Dolores Park, hosted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. \u003ccite>(via photosbygooch.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As the son of a Southern Baptist minister from rural Appalachia,” Wild West told a cheering crowd of thousands, “I wish more people would act Christ-like, act with compassion, love your neighbor, be empathetic and caring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our audience really loves to see something unexpected,” Sister Roma said. “They love to see someone who’s sticking the knife into current politics, or expressing themselves. Someone who’s fighting for justice — somebody with a real message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The birth of Hunky Jesus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence made their first public appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, offering community to queer and trans individuals and promising a mission to “expiate stigmatic guilt and promulgate universal joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only a few years later, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was claiming the lives of thousands of gay, trans and other queer individuals across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids\">Reagan administration stumbled \u003c/a>in its response to the health crisis, the Sisters quickly mobilized — distributing one of the first-ever safe-sex pamphlets about HIV, raising funds to help those living with AIDS and serving as caretakers for those who were dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078701\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7835-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7835-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7835-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7835-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7835-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7835-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes from the 2025 Easter in the Park event in Dolores Park, hosted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. \u003ccite>(via the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But finding joy, even in the most difficult moments, has always been central to the Sisters’ work, Sister Roma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, the Sisters began to host an Easter party in San Francisco’s Castro District to thank the community for their support. And according to Sister Roma, the idea for a Hunky Jesus contest came about in a conversation between her fellow sisters.[aside postID=science_1992138 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/03/5651881830_b81a7411ec_k-1020x765.jpg']She remembers everyone in the order quickly got behind the idea. “‘It’s so gay. It’s so queer. It’s just perfect. People will love it,’” recalled Sister Roma. “And boy, they sure did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1999, their Easter celebration kept getting bigger, so the Sisters applied for a permit to close Castro Street. But some residents pushed back, and this fight even caught \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210322/http:/www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=9990\">the attention\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20241204114842/https:/archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19990318/2950120/church-wants-to-prohibit-drag-queen-act\">national outlets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not only did the Sisters eventually win their fight, but they found that the controversy actually gave their event a huge amount of publicity — resulting in tens of thousands of people showing up to the 1999 Easter celebration, Sister Roma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that point, the Sisters realized it was time to move to Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons that people love this event so much is because they know that it is the epitome of a San Francisco experience,” Sister Roma said. “People who come for the first time quickly learn that this is probably one of most joyous, diverse, exuberant and beautiful expressions of love and joy that you can have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The message is very clear’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco resident Semra Vignaux, 23, remembers her parents taking her to see the Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests when she was a toddler. “Neither of my parents have a strong affiliation with the religions they were raised in, so it was really nice that we still had something to do on Easter,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an adult, Vignaux moved to the East Coast for college and said it was difficult explaining to people she met over there some parts of San Francisco’s culture, including Hunky Jesus. “When you tell people about it, they are like, ‘That’s so sacrilegious,’” she said. “And they don’t realize it’s actually very beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7766-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7766-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7766-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7766-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7766-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7766-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes from the 2025 Easter in the Park event in Dolores Park, hosted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. \u003ccite>(via the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The theme of this year’s Easter in the Park is “Love Thy Neighbor,” and the event’s poster features a \u003cem>very\u003c/em> toned Jesus — Sacred Heart, crown of thorns and all — with one hand in the air that melts through a wall of ice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message is very clear,” Sister Roma said. “We respect and appreciate all of our neighbors, especially brown people who are currently being victimized, criminalized, attacked and viciously taken off the streets and without due process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Sisters first gained prominence due to their response to HIV/AIDS, they have become visible allies in other social justice fights in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078696\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8411-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8411-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8411-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8411-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8411-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8411-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes from the 2025 Easter in the Park event in Dolores Park, hosted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. \u003ccite>(via the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These struggles are all connected, Sister Roma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/18/nx-s1-5445303/transgender-people-financial-anxiety\">trans community\u003c/a> is being \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/10/nx-s1-5377402/republicans-democrats-transgender-sports-legislatures\">villainized and victimized\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067497/trans-flying-for-holidays-san-francisco-california-airports-ids-identification\">potentially eradicated\u003c/a> by the current regime … We know that immigrants are our neighbors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We care very much about preserving democracy and human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhendoestheHunkyJesuscontestbegin\">\u003c/a>What to know about 2026 Easter in the Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What time are the Easter in the Park 2026 events on Sunday?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10 a.m. Children’s Easter begins\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10:30 a.m. Children’s Easter egg hunt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For parents and caregivers: The Sisters said that while “nudity and profanity are prohibited” at Easter in the Park, “the latter portion of the day is more adult-oriented, and the Sisters’ trademark irreverence may be inappropriate for young children.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>12 p.m. Main stage events begin\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1:45 p.m. Easter bonnet contest\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2:30 p.m. Foxy Mary contest\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3 p.m. Hunky Jesus contest\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 p.m. Festivities conclude\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full line-up information is available on\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesisters.org/easter\"> the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Want to enter the Easter bonnet, Hunky Jesus or Foxy Mary contests?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contests are open to all ages and genders, the Sisters said, and “When contests are announced from the stage, contestants should line up backstage near the tennis courts, where contestant wranglers will greet them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should expect an “initial screening process,” after which finalists will be brought onstage for the audience to decide the winner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8494-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8494-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8494-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8494-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8494-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8494-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes from the 2025 Easter in the Park event in Dolores Park, hosted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. \u003ccite>(via the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Groups are discouraged, and only one person per entry will be allowed onstage for judging,” the Sisters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SFSisters/posts/the-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-inc-san-franciscos-beloved-and-satirical-dra/1071523671677213/\"> 2025 advice\u003c/a> from the Sisters, “Well-conceived, clever characterizations or concepts for Foxy Mary and Hunky Jesus always get the best response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to get to Easter in the Park on Sunday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolores Park is accessible by the 33 and J Muni lines. The 22 and 48 Muni lines 22 also stop nearby. The 16th Street and Mission BART station is a 15-minute walk from the park. Parking will be extremely limited near Dolores Park on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://app.buglevolunteers.com/registration?id=80f7c353-27f0-4913-8284-81737a057bd1\">You can also sign up to volunteer at the event.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Accessibility \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ADA parking is available on 18th Street. An ADA and ASL program viewing area is provided, along with ASL interpretation. For ADA requests, contact \u003ca href=\"mailto:easter@thesisters.org\">easter@thesisters.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year, thousands of Bay Area residents fill up the park to watch the competition, plus performances and family-friendly events earlier in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many also show up simply to revel in the merriment of getting together with friends surrounded by music and laughter, accompanied by fabulous views of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#WhendoestheHunkyJesuscontestbegin\"> When does the Hunky Jesus contest begin?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The Easter in the Park celebration includes an egg hunt for families at 10 a.m. in the northeast section of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11741046\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36592_SistersPerpetualIndulgenceHunkyJesusCompetition-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36592_SistersPerpetualIndulgenceHunkyJesusCompetition-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36592_SistersPerpetualIndulgenceHunkyJesusCompetition-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36592_SistersPerpetualIndulgenceHunkyJesusCompetition-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36592_SistersPerpetualIndulgenceHunkyJesusCompetition-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36592_SistersPerpetualIndulgenceHunkyJesusCompetition-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s Hunky Jesus Competition in Dolores Park, San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Jere via Wikipedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the main event starts at noon, with performances and an Easter Bonnet contest chaired by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s Sister Roma, drag queen Peaches Christ and political activist and drag performer Honey Mahogany as this year’s emcees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, at 2:30 p.m., the audience will decide who among the contestants — dressed either as hunky replicas of Jesus or foxy versions of the Virgin Mary — should join the fabled ranks of past winners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t mistake this for a beauty contest, Sister Roma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hunky Jesus doesn’t just mean that you get up there, have a gorgeous body, be handsome, stand there and flex,” Sister Roma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s Hunky Jesus title went to San Francisco producer and performer Wild West, who came in riding \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIztMUcz4D_/\">a life-sized chrome-covered model buffalo\u003c/a> while waving a Pride flag, in partial tribute to Beyonce’s \u003cem>Cowboy Carter\u003c/em> album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078690\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8525.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8525-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8525-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes from the 2025 Easter in the Park event in Dolores Park, hosted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. \u003ccite>(via photosbygooch.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As the son of a Southern Baptist minister from rural Appalachia,” Wild West told a cheering crowd of thousands, “I wish more people would act Christ-like, act with compassion, love your neighbor, be empathetic and caring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our audience really loves to see something unexpected,” Sister Roma said. “They love to see someone who’s sticking the knife into current politics, or expressing themselves. Someone who’s fighting for justice — somebody with a real message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The birth of Hunky Jesus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence made their first public appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, offering community to queer and trans individuals and promising a mission to “expiate stigmatic guilt and promulgate universal joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only a few years later, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was claiming the lives of thousands of gay, trans and other queer individuals across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids\">Reagan administration stumbled \u003c/a>in its response to the health crisis, the Sisters quickly mobilized — distributing one of the first-ever safe-sex pamphlets about HIV, raising funds to help those living with AIDS and serving as caretakers for those who were dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078701\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7835-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7835-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7835-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7835-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7835-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7835-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes from the 2025 Easter in the Park event in Dolores Park, hosted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. \u003ccite>(via the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But finding joy, even in the most difficult moments, has always been central to the Sisters’ work, Sister Roma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, the Sisters began to host an Easter party in San Francisco’s Castro District to thank the community for their support. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She remembers everyone in the order quickly got behind the idea. “‘It’s so gay. It’s so queer. It’s just perfect. People will love it,’” recalled Sister Roma. “And boy, they sure did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1999, their Easter celebration kept getting bigger, so the Sisters applied for a permit to close Castro Street. But some residents pushed back, and this fight even caught \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210322/http:/www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=9990\">the attention\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20241204114842/https:/archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19990318/2950120/church-wants-to-prohibit-drag-queen-act\">national outlets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not only did the Sisters eventually win their fight, but they found that the controversy actually gave their event a huge amount of publicity — resulting in tens of thousands of people showing up to the 1999 Easter celebration, Sister Roma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that point, the Sisters realized it was time to move to Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons that people love this event so much is because they know that it is the epitome of a San Francisco experience,” Sister Roma said. “People who come for the first time quickly learn that this is probably one of most joyous, diverse, exuberant and beautiful expressions of love and joy that you can have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The message is very clear’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco resident Semra Vignaux, 23, remembers her parents taking her to see the Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests when she was a toddler. “Neither of my parents have a strong affiliation with the religions they were raised in, so it was really nice that we still had something to do on Easter,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an adult, Vignaux moved to the East Coast for college and said it was difficult explaining to people she met over there some parts of San Francisco’s culture, including Hunky Jesus. “When you tell people about it, they are like, ‘That’s so sacrilegious,’” she said. “And they don’t realize it’s actually very beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7766-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7766-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7766-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7766-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7766-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_7766-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes from the 2025 Easter in the Park event in Dolores Park, hosted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. \u003ccite>(via the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The theme of this year’s Easter in the Park is “Love Thy Neighbor,” and the event’s poster features a \u003cem>very\u003c/em> toned Jesus — Sacred Heart, crown of thorns and all — with one hand in the air that melts through a wall of ice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message is very clear,” Sister Roma said. “We respect and appreciate all of our neighbors, especially brown people who are currently being victimized, criminalized, attacked and viciously taken off the streets and without due process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Sisters first gained prominence due to their response to HIV/AIDS, they have become visible allies in other social justice fights in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078696\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8411-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8411-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8411-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8411-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8411-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8411-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes from the 2025 Easter in the Park event in Dolores Park, hosted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. \u003ccite>(via the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These struggles are all connected, Sister Roma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/18/nx-s1-5445303/transgender-people-financial-anxiety\">trans community\u003c/a> is being \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/10/nx-s1-5377402/republicans-democrats-transgender-sports-legislatures\">villainized and victimized\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067497/trans-flying-for-holidays-san-francisco-california-airports-ids-identification\">potentially eradicated\u003c/a> by the current regime … We know that immigrants are our neighbors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We care very much about preserving democracy and human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhendoestheHunkyJesuscontestbegin\">\u003c/a>What to know about 2026 Easter in the Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What time are the Easter in the Park 2026 events on Sunday?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10 a.m. Children’s Easter begins\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10:30 a.m. Children’s Easter egg hunt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For parents and caregivers: The Sisters said that while “nudity and profanity are prohibited” at Easter in the Park, “the latter portion of the day is more adult-oriented, and the Sisters’ trademark irreverence may be inappropriate for young children.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>12 p.m. Main stage events begin\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1:45 p.m. Easter bonnet contest\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2:30 p.m. Foxy Mary contest\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3 p.m. Hunky Jesus contest\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 p.m. Festivities conclude\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full line-up information is available on\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesisters.org/easter\"> the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Want to enter the Easter bonnet, Hunky Jesus or Foxy Mary contests?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contests are open to all ages and genders, the Sisters said, and “When contests are announced from the stage, contestants should line up backstage near the tennis courts, where contestant wranglers will greet them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should expect an “initial screening process,” after which finalists will be brought onstage for the audience to decide the winner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8494-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8494-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8494-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8494-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8494-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/DSC_8494-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes from the 2025 Easter in the Park event in Dolores Park, hosted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. \u003ccite>(via the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Groups are discouraged, and only one person per entry will be allowed onstage for judging,” the Sisters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SFSisters/posts/the-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-inc-san-franciscos-beloved-and-satirical-dra/1071523671677213/\"> 2025 advice\u003c/a> from the Sisters, “Well-conceived, clever characterizations or concepts for Foxy Mary and Hunky Jesus always get the best response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to get to Easter in the Park on Sunday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolores Park is accessible by the 33 and J Muni lines. The 22 and 48 Muni lines 22 also stop nearby. The 16th Street and Mission BART station is a 15-minute walk from the park. Parking will be extremely limited near Dolores Park on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://app.buglevolunteers.com/registration?id=80f7c353-27f0-4913-8284-81737a057bd1\">You can also sign up to volunteer at the event.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Accessibility \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ADA parking is available on 18th Street. An ADA and ASL program viewing area is provided, along with ASL interpretation. For ADA requests, contact \u003ca href=\"mailto:easter@thesisters.org\">easter@thesisters.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Many Bay Area travelers have been relieved that because \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-international-airport\">San Francisco International Airport\u003c/a> uses a private contractor for its security screening rather than the Transportation Security Administration, it has been largely unaffected by the partial government shutdown, which has caused \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077353/ice-airports-tsa-trump-deployed-shutdown-sfo-incident-your-rights-what-to-know\">hours-long security lines\u003c/a> in other airports around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But new guidance from the Federal Aviation Administration that went into effect on Monday is now restricting how planes land on SFO’s runways and is already causing delays for a quarter of arriving flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFO \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetraveler.org/faa-ends-sfos-iconic-parallel-landings-cutting-capacity/\">uniquely\u003c/a> has two main landing runways, \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about/airport-operations/policies-regulations/weather-impact#:~:text=SFO's%20runways%20are%20only%20750,aircraft%20must%20arrive%20single%2Dfile\">about 750 feet apart\u003c/a>. On a clear day, planes can land side-by-side, \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about/airport-operations/policies-regulations/runway-constraints#:~:text=SFO%27s%20runways%20are%20only%20750,aircraft%20must%20arrive%20single%2Dfile\">allowing around 60 arrivals per hour\u003c/a>. On foggy days, SFO \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about/airport-operations/policies-regulations/weather-impact#:~:text=SFO's%20runways%20are%20only%20750,aircraft%20must%20arrive%20single%2Dfile\">avoids these dual arrivals\u003c/a> for safety reasons and \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about/airport-operations/policies-regulations/runway-constraints#:~:text=SFO%27s%20runways%20are%20only%20750,aircraft%20must%20arrive%20single%2Dfile\">reduces arrivals to 30 per hour.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the FAA told KQED that the agency’s “safety measure prohibits flights from making side-by-side approaches to SFO’s parallel east-west runways in clear weather when the pilots acknowledge having the other aircraft in sight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers walk past a flight board in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And as of Monday, the FAA’s new rule for SFO landings “requires staggered approaches, with one aircraft offset from the aircraft on the parallel runway,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This change has already led to flight delays “averaging around 30 minutes,” SFO spokesperson Doug Yakel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you have an upcoming flight in or out of SFO, or are planning to travel soon, what should you know? Read more on these restrictions and how they could impact your flights in and out of the Bay’s biggest airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatshouldIdoifIhaveanexistingflightbooking\"> What should I do if I have an existing flight booking?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Willthischangeimpactsecuritylinestoo\"> Will this change impact security lines, too?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What are the changes to SFO’s runways, and why will this cause flight delays?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Firstly, you should know: Delays caused by this new FAA runway restriction are coming on the heels of unrelated construction work at SFO that’s \u003cem>also \u003c/em>causing delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 30, unrelated to the recent FAA restriction, \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about/media/press-releases/six-month-closure-runway-1r-sfo-set-begin-march-30th\">SFO closed Runway 1 Right\u003c/a> for construction that is predicted to last six months. Yakel said the airport is currently forecasting that 15% of flights will be delayed over the next half a year due to this project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067210\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers wait for their flight at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But now, on top of that, the FAA restriction will \u003cem>also \u003c/em>“increase the delay potential to approximately 25% of arriving flights experiencing a delay of at least 30 minutes,” Yakel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working with the FAA on ways to improve the arrival rate at SFO,” Yakel said to KQED. “We remain in contact with both the FAA and airlines on this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA confirmed to KQED that it is “exploring ways to safely increase the airport arrival rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which is to say: Between construction and the new FAA restriction, there’s a higher chance passengers will face flight delays at SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does this just affect incoming flights at SFO?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The restriction — and the 25%-of-flights-affected figure — apply to arriving flights, Yakel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if that arriving aircraft is turning around to represent a departing flight, that could also experience a delay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-75-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-75-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-75-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-75-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Delta Airlines plane at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That means that even if your flight \u003cem>leaves \u003c/em>from SFO, you could still be left waiting — because the plane your flight is using has been delayed arriving.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhatshouldIdoifIhaveanexistingflightbooking\">\u003c/a>Will this impact existing bookings for flights arriving at SFO?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This depends on the airlines, Yakel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know they are looking into this,” he said. “Airlines would communicate such changes directly to affected customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with United Airlines — which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/hub-airports.html\">its hub at SFO\u003c/a> — said that they are “reviewing the FAA’s updated guidance to determine if we will need to make any changes to our flight schedule in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067051\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-49-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-49-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-49-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-49-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person walks to their destination at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We encourage customers to check their flight status in the United app,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/blaberge\">KQED photographer Beth LaBerge\u003c/a>, who previously worked for years as a customer service agent for Delta Airlines, said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067167/sfo-airport-security-food-terminals-hacks-tips-san-francisco-international-service-animals\">a previous guide exploring hacks for navigating SFO smoothly\u003c/a> that the airport is already \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/travel/article/sfo-ground-delay-low-clouds-21230684.php\">known\u003c/a> for what’s called \u003ca href=\"https://avgeekery.com/why-is-my-flight-delayed-at-san-francisco-international/\">“flow control delay,”\u003c/a> especially during morning flights when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997579/bay-area-hikes-views-clouds-marine-inversion-layer\">the marine layer\u003c/a> comes in.[aside postID=news_12065518 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-31-BL-KQED.jpg']“Being proactive is one of the biggest things that I recommend to anyone flying from anywhere,” LaBerge said. She recommended that you download your airline’s app and turn on alerts, which “will give you updates about delays, gate changes [and] cancellations, and just help you stay ahead of those surprises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058887/flight-delays-government-shutdown-air-traffic-controllers-sfo-oak-sjc\">a backup\u003c/a>, travelers can also check on the status of their flight on \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/passengers/flight-info/flight-status\">the SFO website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long will this restriction be in place?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yakel said that the “FAA has yet to communicate a timeframe for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFO’s unrelated runway construction project, however, is scheduled to end on Oct. 2. However, Yakel said, if the FAA’s restrictions remain in place, then we would still see 25% of flights delayed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Willthischangeimpactsecuritylinestoo\">\u003c/a>Will this cause the same security delays that travelers are seeing around the country?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yakel said the new FAA rule will not impact security lines at SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/13/nx-s1-5744648/as-partial-shutdown-drags-on-morning-edition-checks-out-tsa-lines-at-3-airports\">Feb. 14\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/air-travel\">TSA staff\u003c/a> have worked without pay due to the ongoing partial government shutdown — and with many calling out of work, passengers across the United States have experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/21/nx-s1-5755796/airport-security-tsa-lines-travel-tips\">hours-long security screening lines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077504\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267571375-scaled-e1774462803299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CE agents stand next to the security line at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on March 23, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFO \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetraveler.org/faa-ends-sfos-iconic-parallel-landings-cutting-capacity/\">uniquely\u003c/a> has two main landing runways, \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about/airport-operations/policies-regulations/weather-impact#:~:text=SFO's%20runways%20are%20only%20750,aircraft%20must%20arrive%20single%2Dfile\">about 750 feet apart\u003c/a>. On a clear day, planes can land side-by-side, \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about/airport-operations/policies-regulations/runway-constraints#:~:text=SFO%27s%20runways%20are%20only%20750,aircraft%20must%20arrive%20single%2Dfile\">allowing around 60 arrivals per hour\u003c/a>. On foggy days, SFO \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about/airport-operations/policies-regulations/weather-impact#:~:text=SFO's%20runways%20are%20only%20750,aircraft%20must%20arrive%20single%2Dfile\">avoids these dual arrivals\u003c/a> for safety reasons and \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about/airport-operations/policies-regulations/runway-constraints#:~:text=SFO%27s%20runways%20are%20only%20750,aircraft%20must%20arrive%20single%2Dfile\">reduces arrivals to 30 per hour.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the FAA told KQED that the agency’s “safety measure prohibits flights from making side-by-side approaches to SFO’s parallel east-west runways in clear weather when the pilots acknowledge having the other aircraft in sight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers walk past a flight board in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And as of Monday, the FAA’s new rule for SFO landings “requires staggered approaches, with one aircraft offset from the aircraft on the parallel runway,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This change has already led to flight delays “averaging around 30 minutes,” SFO spokesperson Doug Yakel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you have an upcoming flight in or out of SFO, or are planning to travel soon, what should you know? Read more on these restrictions and how they could impact your flights in and out of the Bay’s biggest airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatshouldIdoifIhaveanexistingflightbooking\"> What should I do if I have an existing flight booking?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Willthischangeimpactsecuritylinestoo\"> Will this change impact security lines, too?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What are the changes to SFO’s runways, and why will this cause flight delays?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Firstly, you should know: Delays caused by this new FAA runway restriction are coming on the heels of unrelated construction work at SFO that’s \u003cem>also \u003c/em>causing delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 30, unrelated to the recent FAA restriction, \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about/media/press-releases/six-month-closure-runway-1r-sfo-set-begin-march-30th\">SFO closed Runway 1 Right\u003c/a> for construction that is predicted to last six months. 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LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But now, on top of that, the FAA restriction will \u003cem>also \u003c/em>“increase the delay potential to approximately 25% of arriving flights experiencing a delay of at least 30 minutes,” Yakel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working with the FAA on ways to improve the arrival rate at SFO,” Yakel said to KQED. “We remain in contact with both the FAA and airlines on this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA confirmed to KQED that it is “exploring ways to safely increase the airport arrival rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which is to say: Between construction and the new FAA restriction, there’s a higher chance passengers will face flight delays at SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does this just affect incoming flights at SFO?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The restriction — and the 25%-of-flights-affected figure — apply to arriving flights, Yakel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if that arriving aircraft is turning around to represent a 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Being proactive is one of the biggest things that I recommend to anyone flying from anywhere,” LaBerge said. She recommended that you download your airline’s app and turn on alerts, which “will give you updates about delays, gate changes [and] cancellations, and just help you stay ahead of those surprises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058887/flight-delays-government-shutdown-air-traffic-controllers-sfo-oak-sjc\">a backup\u003c/a>, travelers can also check on the status of their flight on \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/passengers/flight-info/flight-status\">the SFO website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long will this restriction be in place?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yakel said that the “FAA has yet to communicate a timeframe for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFO’s unrelated runway construction project, however, is scheduled to end on Oct. 2. However, Yakel said, if the FAA’s restrictions remain in place, then we would still see 25% of flights delayed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Willthischangeimpactsecuritylinestoo\">\u003c/a>Will this cause the same security delays that travelers are seeing around the country?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yakel said the new FAA rule will not impact security lines at SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/13/nx-s1-5744648/as-partial-shutdown-drags-on-morning-edition-checks-out-tsa-lines-at-3-airports\">Feb. 14\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/air-travel\">TSA staff\u003c/a> have worked without pay due to the ongoing partial government shutdown — and with many calling out of work, passengers across the United States have experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/21/nx-s1-5755796/airport-security-tsa-lines-travel-tips\">hours-long security screening lines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077504\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267571375-scaled-e1774462803299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CE agents stand next to the security line at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on March 23, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia. The travel disruptions continue as hundreds of TSA agents quit or work without pay during a partial government shutdown. \u003ccite>(Megan Varner/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SFO has been spared long wait lines by the fact that its security screening is contracted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flysfo/p/DWHseVzDnnc/\">a private company\u003c/a> rather than the TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national situation was \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/01/tsa-trump-dhs-shutdown-airports.html\">somewhat alleviated\u003c/a> by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/01/tsa-trump-dhs-shutdown-airports.html\">late March executive order by President Donald Trump\u003c/a> that allowed TSA agents around the country to get paid. It is unclear how long agents will be paid this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074364/yosemite-national-park-no-reservations-2026-glacier-arches-timed-entry\">Yosemite \u003c/a>to Lassen, some of the country’s most iconic — and most visited — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/national-parks-service\">national parks \u003c/a>are virtually on our doorstep here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But our “home” national park, Pinnacles, is even closer than you may realize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve driven Highway 101 south from San Francisco, you’ve probably seen the signs directing drivers to the park, which is only a few hours away from the Bay Area. But despite its proximity, this park is often overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Richard Neidhardt first started volunteering at Pinnacles in 2010, he said the most common response from anyone he told was: “Where’s that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s remarkable how many people who live within two hours of here haven’t heard of it, don’t know what it is, and have never been here,” said Neidhardt, who is now the Condor Chair of the Pinnacles National Park Foundation, the nonprofit that helps fill funding gaps for the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This under-the-radar element is partly because Pinnacles \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/48410/our-newest-national-park-pinnacles-national-monument\">only became a national park in 2013\u003c/a>, when it was upgraded from a national monument. It’s also a relatively small park — at just around 27,000 acres, it’s one of the smallest in the whole country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_033-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_033-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_033-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_033-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small creek flows beneath trees near the Sycamore Trail trailhead at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this little park still packs a punch, and makes for a fantastically fulfilling — and surprisingly easy — trip from the Bay Area, even just for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So to help you plan your own Pinnacles visit, I traveled there one hot spring day to check out the best trails, find the most beautiful views, and learn about some truly hidden wonders from Neidhardt and his colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on for 10 tips to make the day trip worth your while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#CanIcampatPinnacles\">Can I camp at Pinnacles?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatarethemostscenictrailsatPinnacles\">What are the most scenic trails at Pinnacles?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WherecanIseecondorsinthepark\">Where can I see condors in the park?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#HowcanIvisitPinnaclescaves\">How can I visit Pinnacles’ caves?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Getting to Pinnacles (and which entrance to use)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Depending on where you’re coming from in the Bay Area, and traffic conditions, the drive to \u003ca href=\"https://share.google/PeddmL8UcyLQrkuDW\">Pinnacles’ eastern entrance\u003c/a> — considered its main entrance — is only around 2-3 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you pass through the South Bay, you’ll continue on Hwy 101 until Gilroy, where you’ll take Highway 25 to Hollister and through Tres Pinos before turning off the highway and into the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077268\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_032-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_032-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_032-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_032-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rock formations rise along the High Peaks Trail at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On your way to the park, you can stop in Hollister for any major needs, like extra gear or groceries. The small town of Tres Pinos has its own quaint feel and is an ideal post-hike dinner stop at one of the handful of restaurants on its main street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about using the \u003ca href=\"https://share.google/Radepu1Bj4Ro16Auv\">western entrance\u003c/a> instead? This location will take you a little longer to reach from the Bay, but it certainly has its own appeal — namely, the sweeping views of the namesake Pinnacles rock formations themselves that are readily available from the parking lot. You can stop in Salinas or Soledad on your way in or out from that end, although be aware: Highway 146 from the western side is scenic but somewhat narrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Make Pinnacles a surprisingly achievable day trip\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike other sprawling national parks, which demand a multi-day trip to see all of their sights, it \u003cem>is \u003c/em>worth it to visit Pinnacles for a day trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or as Neidhardt puts it, “You can see a lot of the park in one day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this advice comes with a caveat: Pinnacles is split into two sides, east and west, and you shouldn’t expect to be able to visit both sides of the park in one day. In fact, you can’t actually drive from one end to the other — so pick an entrance and stick with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_009-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_009-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_009-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_009-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Neidhardt, director and Pinnacles Condor Fund chair, speaks while seated outdoors during a visit to Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For first-timers, especially those coming from the Bay Area, heading to the east side typically makes the most sense, given its increased infrastructure, like a full campground and park store, and it is a jumping-off spot for a wider variety of hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Return visitors may want to check out the west side for a new perspective — including iconic valley views of the namesake pinnacle rock formations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can drive down to the Chaparral Parking Area, and there they are,” Neidhardt said. “It’s just the most spectacular views of the rock formations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Get to Pinnacles \u003cem>early \u003c/em>(to avoid a wait)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Visitorship to Pinnacles has hugely increased in the last five years, and was historically also boosted by its new status as a national park. “The impact on the park was huge,” Neidhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And visitorship is still sizable, said Tim Regan, president of the Pinnacles Foundation — meaning you should plan to avoid the worst of the traffic into the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Pinnacles may be no Yosemite in terms of visitorship, lines of cars to get into the park during peak spring weekends can still be miles long, even requiring up to a\u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1s6gcpi/pinnacles_packed/?share_id=Jv6fvKpPQQSZfh5G5PYnX&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1\"> two-hour wait\u003c/a> to get in. These days, people come from all over the world to visit the park, often on their way to and from other areas like Yosemite or Big Sur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077262\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_012-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_012-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_012-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_012-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Regan, board president of the Pinnacles National Park Foundation, poses in a grassy meadow at Pinnacles National Park, where his family has roots spanning more than a century, on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I can testify from my own visit that you should plan ahead to avoid missing out. While I didn’t experience any lines to enter the park’s east entrance when I arrived at 10 a.m., by the time I was ready to embark on a hike, the Bear Gulch parking lot was full, meaning I had to park a mile down the road and walk to the trailhead. (During peak season times, the park \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/planyourvisit/hours.htm\">runs a shuttle\u003c/a> from the campground to the Bear Gulch Day Use Area to mitigate this issue.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Neidhardt and his colleagues recommend you plan to arrive at the park early — or even come on a weekday or during a less busy time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a reason for this wait, Regan said: The park isn’t really designed to hold more people than its current parking lots can accommodate. “The land around here is very fragile,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another good reason to get there early? The heat. The day I went, during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000315/record-breaking-heat-wave-bakes-the-bay-area-through-friday\">Bay Area’s historic March heat wave,\u003c/a> it was pushing 90 in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat wave aside, springtime is still the best time to visit Pinnacles, Regan said. “Everything is green, the wildflowers are out, and it’s not too hot — except for this week,” he said. “It’s usually in the 70s here, and it’s wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"CanIcampatPinnacles\">\u003c/a>Consider sleeping within the park itself\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you want to avoid the headache of getting there early enough to avoid a wait, you can stay overnight at Pinnacles’ campground — an underrated but “wonderful” way to experience the park, said Mike Novo, the treasurer for the Pinnacles Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The night skies here are wonderful,” he said, so much so that they’re striving to get \u003ca href=\"https://darksky.org/\">international “Dark Sky” status\u003c/a> by retrofitting light fixtures and working with nearby communities to reduce their light pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077260 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_005-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_005-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_005-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_005-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Novo, treasurer of the Pinnacles National Park Foundation, pauses during an interview about the park he has camped in since the 1960s, on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And if you get lucky, you might be able to see condors leaving their roosts on the ridge above the campground in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just remember: The campground is on the east side of the park only, so plan accordingly. You’ll have access to showers and even a swimming pool that’s open during the summer, weather permitting. There’s also a small campground store where you can purchase necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downside: \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/234015\">Reservations for the campground\u003c/a> can be tough to secure, so check early and stay flexible.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhatarethemostscenictrailsatPinnacles\">\u003c/a>Find a trail that works for your ability levels\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Pinnacles is not a huge national park, it still has a wide range of trails for all types of hikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a driving park, it’s a hiking park,” Neidhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most iconic — and most difficult — trail is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/high-peaks-condor-gulch-trail\">High Peaks Loop\u003c/a>, which takes hikers from the main parking area on the east side up and over the park’s craggy mountaintops, down to the Bear Gulch Reservoir and through the Bear Gulch Caves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_038-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_038-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_038-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_038-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hiker sits on a rocky ledge overlooking a winding trail and valley below in the High Peaks area at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The High Peaks Loop is rugged, but it’s just the most spectacular hike anywhere, not just in Pinnacles,” Neidhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re planning that hike, he said, you should:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Start as early as you can in the morning\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go counter-clockwise, starting on the Condor Gulch Trail, to get the hot, exposed section out of the way in the morning\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Keep in mind, “it can be 10 degrees hotter up in the high peaks than it is down below,” Neidhardt said.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077267\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_031-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_031-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_031-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_031-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign marks the start of the Sycamore Trail at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If that sounds like too much, don’t worry: There are lots of less strenuous options that are still just as scenic. From the Bear Gulch Parking Lot, try \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/moses-spring-and-rim-trail-loop\">heading up the Moses Spring Trail\u003c/a> to the Bear Gulch Reservoir, stopping to check out the caves along your way for a 2-mile round-trip hike to experience some of the park’s highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or trek up to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/condor-gulch-trail-to-overlook--2\">Condor Gulch Overlook\u003c/a>, where you might catch a glimpse of the park’s famed birds. Even the walk from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/bear-gulch-trail-peaks-view-day-use-area-to-bear-gulch-day-use-area\">campground to the Bear Gulch parking area\u003c/a> is a pleasant, shady one that’s great for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the west side, the High Peaks are a quick but steep hike away. You can also stroll along the park’s new ADA-accessible “lollipop” route to see them from below.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>See the incredible biodiversity on display\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Because of the park’s varied ecosystems, it also boasts a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/index.htm\">wide variety of species\u003c/a>. That includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/wildflowers.htm\">wildflowers\u003c/a>, which are especially widespread in the spring.“The sheer variety of wildflowers here — it’s just astonishing,” Neidhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That extends to its animals, too: The park has one of the highest diversities of native bee species anywhere in the world, Neidhardt said, with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/bees.htm\">500 species of bees\u003c/a> found within the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077273\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_042-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_042-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_042-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_042-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California sister butterfly (Adelpha californica) rests on a sunlit patch of ground at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite many trail and area names with the word “bear” in them, there are no bears in the park. There are some pesky raccoons, however, who will boldly grab your food, Regan said. I also encountered a very persistent squirrel by the reservoir — a reminder not to feed \u003cem>any \u003c/em>of the wildlife here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the less desirable creatures near the park are wild pigs, which are so prevalent that there’s now a 3-foot fence around the entire core of the park — nearly 30 miles in total — to keep them out, Neidhardt told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were a gigantic problem here in the campground,” Neidhardt said. “People get marauded by a pack of wild pigs at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WherecanIseecondorsinthepark\">\u003c/a>Catch a glimpse of the biggest birds in North America\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s one animal that makes any effort getting to the park and up into its craggy mountains worth the effort: the California condor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of Pinnacles’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/birds.htm\">more than 180 species of birds\u003c/a>, but unlike any other. In fact, condors are the largest land birds in North America, with wingspans reaching nearly 10 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike their cousins, the turkey vulture, condors are huge: They can weigh around 20 pounds and fly up to 200 miles in a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_030-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_030-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_030-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_030-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California condor stands on a rocky outcrop near the Condor Gulch Trail viewpoint at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But if you’re not up close and can’t tell the difference, Neidhardt said you can look at the way they fly — condors are smoother fliers, with straight-out wings, versus the rocky, tipsy flight of a turkey vulture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the condors you’ll see at Pinnacles are all tagged, so if you see a colored tag with a number on it, typically on its wing, you know it’s a condor. And you can look it up later using a \u003ca href=\"https://www.condorspotter.com/\">website called Condor Spotter, \u003c/a>developed by a staff member at the Ventana Wildlife Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Condors gravitate toward this park because they love nesting in cavities in the rock formations here, Neidhardt said. Plus, rangeland surrounds the park, “so there’s a lot for them to eat,” he said — including those wild pigs, which they’re apparently quite partial to pork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just absolutely ideal condor habitat,” he said.[aside postID=news_12074364 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/YosemiteGetty.jpg']But these rare birds are \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/california-condor-information.htm\">threatened,\u003c/a> primarily by lead poisoning found in the animal carcasses they scavenge on. When a bullet kills an animal, the lead from that bullet explodes and enters the flesh around the wound — the same meat a condor might consume. While each bit of lead might be small, the cumulative effect is poisonous and, over time, kills the bird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost 60% of deaths in wild and free-flying condors is caused by ingesting lead from ammunition,” Neidhardt said. “It’s a vicious thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, it takes a long time for condors to reproduce — the females typically lay just one egg every two years, Neidhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, their population crashed to just 22 individuals. To prevent them from going extinct, these condors were captured and bred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, across the Western United States, there are four captive breeding programs and five release sites, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/condor-recovery-program.htm\">including here in Pinnacles\u003c/a>. The park gets young 1-year-old birds, bred in captivity, and keeps them in the flight pen with adult wild birds to act as a “mentor bird,” who helps teach the young birds how to fly and about the pecking order, Neidhardt said. Then, after about a month, they release the young birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Condors are very hierarchical, and there’s a real pecking order,” he said. “And if we got these rookies from the captive breeding program and immediately released them, they’d get beat up — or worse — by the dominant members of the flock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078358\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_025_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_025_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_025_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_025_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California condor spreads its wings on a rocky viewpoint along the Condor Gulch Trail at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Neidhardt said there are 117 condors in the Central California flock right now, ranging from around the central valley to the coast and up north as far as Mount Diablo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their numbers are increasing. The Pinnacles Foundation’s Novo said that he never used to spot any condors in his early days of hiking in Pinnacles in the 1990s, but by 2010, he started seeing them all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s common now,” Novo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year we had a record number of wild nests in the Central California flock,” Neidhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to increase your chances of seeing one yourself, head to the High Peaks, where I spotted two: one pruning itself, another soaring high above.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowcanIvisitPinnaclescaves\">\u003c/a>Explore Pinnacles’s pitch-black caves\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That same movement due to the San Andreas Fault line slowly tumbled rocks and boulders around Pinnacles, producing a handful of caves that visitors to the park today can explore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As pieces of the rock erode or big chunks fall off, they fall into the steep canyons below the eroded rock formations,” Novo said. “The falling boulders are big enough and have enough space within them that they’ve created what’s called ‘talus caves.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just be aware: The upper Bear Gulch Cave is closed for 50 weeks out of the year while its resident bats hibernate and raise their pups. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/planyourvisit/cavestatus.htm\">Always check the park’s website before\u003c/a> heading out to see if the caves are open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_041-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_041-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_041-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_041-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hiker with a headlamp moves through the narrow passageways of Bear Gulch Cave at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I got lucky: The day I was there, they were open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drop into Pinnacles’ caves, and you’ll be surprised at what you see — or don’t see. Because these caves weren’t carved out in the traditional sense, you may think that means they \u003cem>feel \u003c/em>less underground, Novo said, “but it’s pitch black.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After descending into the tiny opening and looking around, I couldn’t see a thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when I turned on my headlamp to reveal a rickety metal staircase winding down the cave, I saw a flowing waterfall pouring from the reservoir above.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>See the park’s geologic history firsthand\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pinnacles’ spires were formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/faults.htm\">around 23 million years ago\u003c/a> when a volcano erupted, piling on material that was later carved away by time and erosion and sculpting the park’s iconic mountaintops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, if you do make it up to the High Peaks, you’ll spiral up and around the pinnacles themselves, getting a literal bird’s eye view of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_037_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_037_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_037_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_037_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rock formations rise above a sweeping view of rolling hills and valleys in the High Peaks area of Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what you see there is the original lava rock,” Novo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing that may surprise you: that volcano actually erupted hundreds of miles away to the southeast, in what’s now the present-day Mojave Desert city of Lancaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highway 25, the route to Pinnacles, sits “pretty much right on top of the San Andreas Fault all the way down from Hollister,” Novo said. So these rock formations that give the park its name have traveled north inch by inch, day by day, over millions of years along that fault, right to where they stand today.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Get to know this place’s living history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pinnacles’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/historyculture/native-peoples.htm\">earliest inhabitants\u003c/a>, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and Chalon Indian Nation, lived on and cared for this land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/historyculture/spanish-missionaries-and-early-settlers.htm\">Spanish missionaries \u003c/a>converted, enslaved and killed native people here, many of the native traditions were lost. Today, tribal members are working to\u003ca href=\"https://amahmutsun.org/pinnacles-national-park\"> bring their cultural history and knowledge back\u003c/a> to the park, Regan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_043_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_043_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_043_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_043_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunlight filters through trees as rock formations rise above a shaded hillside near Bear Gulch at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The legacy of the park’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-elizabeth-bacon-family-house.htm\">homesteader settlers\u003c/a> who inhabited the area in the 19th century is also on display at the park, where a historic homestead hike brings visitors to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/pinnacles-hike-bacon-butterfield-ranch-trail.htm\">Bacon Ranch and Butterfield Ranch,\u003c/a> named for two of the original homesteaders of the property that helped create the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also to thank for the park’s infrastructure is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/historyculture/civilian-conservation-corps.htm\">Civilian Conservation Corps\u003c/a>, which, in the 1930s, developed its highlights, including the treacherous High Peaks trail and Bear Gulch Reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the park is mostly cared for by the National Park Service and the Pinnacles Foundation, which has a team of volunteers that helps plug the holes in the park’s budget — even now that it’s a national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078378\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_034_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_034_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_034_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_034_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildflowers bloom in the foreground along the Condor Gulch Trail, with the park’s rocky spires rising in the distance at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was no money attached” to attaining the national park status, Regan said. “They didn’t have enough money even to put up a sign to say ‘Pinnacles National Park.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation staffs the visitor centers, helps fund the condor program and builds new trails and signs throughout the park — even buying $3,000 worth of lamb carcasses from Costco for the condors during a period of avian flu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever is needed is kind of what we do,” Regan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s remarkable how many people who live within two hours of here haven’t heard of it, don’t know what it is, and have never been here,” said Neidhardt, who is now the Condor Chair of the Pinnacles National Park Foundation, the nonprofit that helps fill funding gaps for the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This under-the-radar element is partly because Pinnacles \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/48410/our-newest-national-park-pinnacles-national-monument\">only became a national park in 2013\u003c/a>, when it was upgraded from a national monument. It’s also a relatively small park — at just around 27,000 acres, it’s one of the smallest in the whole country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_033-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_033-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_033-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_033-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small creek flows beneath trees near the Sycamore Trail trailhead at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this little park still packs a punch, and makes for a fantastically fulfilling — and surprisingly easy — trip from the Bay Area, even just for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So to help you plan your own Pinnacles visit, I traveled there one hot spring day to check out the best trails, find the most beautiful views, and learn about some truly hidden wonders from Neidhardt and his colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on for 10 tips to make the day trip worth your while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#CanIcampatPinnacles\">Can I camp at Pinnacles?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatarethemostscenictrailsatPinnacles\">What are the most scenic trails at Pinnacles?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WherecanIseecondorsinthepark\">Where can I see condors in the park?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#HowcanIvisitPinnaclescaves\">How can I visit Pinnacles’ caves?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Getting to Pinnacles (and which entrance to use)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Depending on where you’re coming from in the Bay Area, and traffic conditions, the drive to \u003ca href=\"https://share.google/PeddmL8UcyLQrkuDW\">Pinnacles’ eastern entrance\u003c/a> — considered its main entrance — is only around 2-3 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you pass through the South Bay, you’ll continue on Hwy 101 until Gilroy, where you’ll take Highway 25 to Hollister and through Tres Pinos before turning off the highway and into the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077268\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_032-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_032-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_032-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_032-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rock formations rise along the High Peaks Trail at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On your way to the park, you can stop in Hollister for any major needs, like extra gear or groceries. The small town of Tres Pinos has its own quaint feel and is an ideal post-hike dinner stop at one of the handful of restaurants on its main street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about using the \u003ca href=\"https://share.google/Radepu1Bj4Ro16Auv\">western entrance\u003c/a> instead? This location will take you a little longer to reach from the Bay, but it certainly has its own appeal — namely, the sweeping views of the namesake Pinnacles rock formations themselves that are readily available from the parking lot. You can stop in Salinas or Soledad on your way in or out from that end, although be aware: Highway 146 from the western side is scenic but somewhat narrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Make Pinnacles a surprisingly achievable day trip\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike other sprawling national parks, which demand a multi-day trip to see all of their sights, it \u003cem>is \u003c/em>worth it to visit Pinnacles for a day trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or as Neidhardt puts it, “You can see a lot of the park in one day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this advice comes with a caveat: Pinnacles is split into two sides, east and west, and you shouldn’t expect to be able to visit both sides of the park in one day. In fact, you can’t actually drive from one end to the other — so pick an entrance and stick with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_009-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_009-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_009-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_009-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Neidhardt, director and Pinnacles Condor Fund chair, speaks while seated outdoors during a visit to Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For first-timers, especially those coming from the Bay Area, heading to the east side typically makes the most sense, given its increased infrastructure, like a full campground and park store, and it is a jumping-off spot for a wider variety of hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Return visitors may want to check out the west side for a new perspective — including iconic valley views of the namesake pinnacle rock formations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can drive down to the Chaparral Parking Area, and there they are,” Neidhardt said. “It’s just the most spectacular views of the rock formations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Get to Pinnacles \u003cem>early \u003c/em>(to avoid a wait)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Visitorship to Pinnacles has hugely increased in the last five years, and was historically also boosted by its new status as a national park. “The impact on the park was huge,” Neidhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And visitorship is still sizable, said Tim Regan, president of the Pinnacles Foundation — meaning you should plan to avoid the worst of the traffic into the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Pinnacles may be no Yosemite in terms of visitorship, lines of cars to get into the park during peak spring weekends can still be miles long, even requiring up to a\u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1s6gcpi/pinnacles_packed/?share_id=Jv6fvKpPQQSZfh5G5PYnX&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1\"> two-hour wait\u003c/a> to get in. These days, people come from all over the world to visit the park, often on their way to and from other areas like Yosemite or Big Sur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077262\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_012-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_012-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_012-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_012-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Regan, board president of the Pinnacles National Park Foundation, poses in a grassy meadow at Pinnacles National Park, where his family has roots spanning more than a century, on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I can testify from my own visit that you should plan ahead to avoid missing out. While I didn’t experience any lines to enter the park’s east entrance when I arrived at 10 a.m., by the time I was ready to embark on a hike, the Bear Gulch parking lot was full, meaning I had to park a mile down the road and walk to the trailhead. (During peak season times, the park \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/planyourvisit/hours.htm\">runs a shuttle\u003c/a> from the campground to the Bear Gulch Day Use Area to mitigate this issue.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Neidhardt and his colleagues recommend you plan to arrive at the park early — or even come on a weekday or during a less busy time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a reason for this wait, Regan said: The park isn’t really designed to hold more people than its current parking lots can accommodate. “The land around here is very fragile,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another good reason to get there early? The heat. The day I went, during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000315/record-breaking-heat-wave-bakes-the-bay-area-through-friday\">Bay Area’s historic March heat wave,\u003c/a> it was pushing 90 in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat wave aside, springtime is still the best time to visit Pinnacles, Regan said. “Everything is green, the wildflowers are out, and it’s not too hot — except for this week,” he said. “It’s usually in the 70s here, and it’s wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"CanIcampatPinnacles\">\u003c/a>Consider sleeping within the park itself\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you want to avoid the headache of getting there early enough to avoid a wait, you can stay overnight at Pinnacles’ campground — an underrated but “wonderful” way to experience the park, said Mike Novo, the treasurer for the Pinnacles Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The night skies here are wonderful,” he said, so much so that they’re striving to get \u003ca href=\"https://darksky.org/\">international “Dark Sky” status\u003c/a> by retrofitting light fixtures and working with nearby communities to reduce their light pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077260 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_005-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_005-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_005-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_005-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Novo, treasurer of the Pinnacles National Park Foundation, pauses during an interview about the park he has camped in since the 1960s, on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And if you get lucky, you might be able to see condors leaving their roosts on the ridge above the campground in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just remember: The campground is on the east side of the park only, so plan accordingly. You’ll have access to showers and even a swimming pool that’s open during the summer, weather permitting. There’s also a small campground store where you can purchase necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downside: \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/234015\">Reservations for the campground\u003c/a> can be tough to secure, so check early and stay flexible.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhatarethemostscenictrailsatPinnacles\">\u003c/a>Find a trail that works for your ability levels\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Pinnacles is not a huge national park, it still has a wide range of trails for all types of hikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a driving park, it’s a hiking park,” Neidhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most iconic — and most difficult — trail is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/high-peaks-condor-gulch-trail\">High Peaks Loop\u003c/a>, which takes hikers from the main parking area on the east side up and over the park’s craggy mountaintops, down to the Bear Gulch Reservoir and through the Bear Gulch Caves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_038-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_038-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_038-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_038-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hiker sits on a rocky ledge overlooking a winding trail and valley below in the High Peaks area at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The High Peaks Loop is rugged, but it’s just the most spectacular hike anywhere, not just in Pinnacles,” Neidhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re planning that hike, he said, you should:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Start as early as you can in the morning\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go counter-clockwise, starting on the Condor Gulch Trail, to get the hot, exposed section out of the way in the morning\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Keep in mind, “it can be 10 degrees hotter up in the high peaks than it is down below,” Neidhardt said.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077267\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_031-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_031-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_031-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_031-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign marks the start of the Sycamore Trail at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If that sounds like too much, don’t worry: There are lots of less strenuous options that are still just as scenic. From the Bear Gulch Parking Lot, try \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/moses-spring-and-rim-trail-loop\">heading up the Moses Spring Trail\u003c/a> to the Bear Gulch Reservoir, stopping to check out the caves along your way for a 2-mile round-trip hike to experience some of the park’s highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or trek up to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/condor-gulch-trail-to-overlook--2\">Condor Gulch Overlook\u003c/a>, where you might catch a glimpse of the park’s famed birds. Even the walk from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/bear-gulch-trail-peaks-view-day-use-area-to-bear-gulch-day-use-area\">campground to the Bear Gulch parking area\u003c/a> is a pleasant, shady one that’s great for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the west side, the High Peaks are a quick but steep hike away. You can also stroll along the park’s new ADA-accessible “lollipop” route to see them from below.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>See the incredible biodiversity on display\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Because of the park’s varied ecosystems, it also boasts a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/index.htm\">wide variety of species\u003c/a>. That includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/wildflowers.htm\">wildflowers\u003c/a>, which are especially widespread in the spring.“The sheer variety of wildflowers here — it’s just astonishing,” Neidhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That extends to its animals, too: The park has one of the highest diversities of native bee species anywhere in the world, Neidhardt said, with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/bees.htm\">500 species of bees\u003c/a> found within the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077273\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_042-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_042-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_042-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_042-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California sister butterfly (Adelpha californica) rests on a sunlit patch of ground at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite many trail and area names with the word “bear” in them, there are no bears in the park. There are some pesky raccoons, however, who will boldly grab your food, Regan said. I also encountered a very persistent squirrel by the reservoir — a reminder not to feed \u003cem>any \u003c/em>of the wildlife here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the less desirable creatures near the park are wild pigs, which are so prevalent that there’s now a 3-foot fence around the entire core of the park — nearly 30 miles in total — to keep them out, Neidhardt told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were a gigantic problem here in the campground,” Neidhardt said. “People get marauded by a pack of wild pigs at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WherecanIseecondorsinthepark\">\u003c/a>Catch a glimpse of the biggest birds in North America\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s one animal that makes any effort getting to the park and up into its craggy mountains worth the effort: the California condor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of Pinnacles’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/birds.htm\">more than 180 species of birds\u003c/a>, but unlike any other. In fact, condors are the largest land birds in North America, with wingspans reaching nearly 10 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike their cousins, the turkey vulture, condors are huge: They can weigh around 20 pounds and fly up to 200 miles in a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_030-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_030-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_030-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_030-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California condor stands on a rocky outcrop near the Condor Gulch Trail viewpoint at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But if you’re not up close and can’t tell the difference, Neidhardt said you can look at the way they fly — condors are smoother fliers, with straight-out wings, versus the rocky, tipsy flight of a turkey vulture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the condors you’ll see at Pinnacles are all tagged, so if you see a colored tag with a number on it, typically on its wing, you know it’s a condor. And you can look it up later using a \u003ca href=\"https://www.condorspotter.com/\">website called Condor Spotter, \u003c/a>developed by a staff member at the Ventana Wildlife Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Condors gravitate toward this park because they love nesting in cavities in the rock formations here, Neidhardt said. Plus, rangeland surrounds the park, “so there’s a lot for them to eat,” he said — including those wild pigs, which they’re apparently quite partial to pork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just absolutely ideal condor habitat,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But these rare birds are \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/california-condor-information.htm\">threatened,\u003c/a> primarily by lead poisoning found in the animal carcasses they scavenge on. When a bullet kills an animal, the lead from that bullet explodes and enters the flesh around the wound — the same meat a condor might consume. While each bit of lead might be small, the cumulative effect is poisonous and, over time, kills the bird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost 60% of deaths in wild and free-flying condors is caused by ingesting lead from ammunition,” Neidhardt said. “It’s a vicious thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, it takes a long time for condors to reproduce — the females typically lay just one egg every two years, Neidhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, their population crashed to just 22 individuals. To prevent them from going extinct, these condors were captured and bred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, across the Western United States, there are four captive breeding programs and five release sites, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/condor-recovery-program.htm\">including here in Pinnacles\u003c/a>. The park gets young 1-year-old birds, bred in captivity, and keeps them in the flight pen with adult wild birds to act as a “mentor bird,” who helps teach the young birds how to fly and about the pecking order, Neidhardt said. Then, after about a month, they release the young birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Condors are very hierarchical, and there’s a real pecking order,” he said. “And if we got these rookies from the captive breeding program and immediately released them, they’d get beat up — or worse — by the dominant members of the flock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078358\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_025_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_025_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_025_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_025_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California condor spreads its wings on a rocky viewpoint along the Condor Gulch Trail at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Neidhardt said there are 117 condors in the Central California flock right now, ranging from around the central valley to the coast and up north as far as Mount Diablo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their numbers are increasing. The Pinnacles Foundation’s Novo said that he never used to spot any condors in his early days of hiking in Pinnacles in the 1990s, but by 2010, he started seeing them all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s common now,” Novo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year we had a record number of wild nests in the Central California flock,” Neidhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to increase your chances of seeing one yourself, head to the High Peaks, where I spotted two: one pruning itself, another soaring high above.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowcanIvisitPinnaclescaves\">\u003c/a>Explore Pinnacles’s pitch-black caves\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That same movement due to the San Andreas Fault line slowly tumbled rocks and boulders around Pinnacles, producing a handful of caves that visitors to the park today can explore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As pieces of the rock erode or big chunks fall off, they fall into the steep canyons below the eroded rock formations,” Novo said. “The falling boulders are big enough and have enough space within them that they’ve created what’s called ‘talus caves.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just be aware: The upper Bear Gulch Cave is closed for 50 weeks out of the year while its resident bats hibernate and raise their pups. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/planyourvisit/cavestatus.htm\">Always check the park’s website before\u003c/a> heading out to see if the caves are open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_041-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_041-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_041-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031626_PINNACLESFORTHEDAY-_GH_041-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hiker with a headlamp moves through the narrow passageways of Bear Gulch Cave at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I got lucky: The day I was there, they were open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drop into Pinnacles’ caves, and you’ll be surprised at what you see — or don’t see. Because these caves weren’t carved out in the traditional sense, you may think that means they \u003cem>feel \u003c/em>less underground, Novo said, “but it’s pitch black.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After descending into the tiny opening and looking around, I couldn’t see a thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when I turned on my headlamp to reveal a rickety metal staircase winding down the cave, I saw a flowing waterfall pouring from the reservoir above.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>See the park’s geologic history firsthand\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pinnacles’ spires were formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/faults.htm\">around 23 million years ago\u003c/a> when a volcano erupted, piling on material that was later carved away by time and erosion and sculpting the park’s iconic mountaintops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, if you do make it up to the High Peaks, you’ll spiral up and around the pinnacles themselves, getting a literal bird’s eye view of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_037_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_037_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_037_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_037_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rock formations rise above a sweeping view of rolling hills and valleys in the High Peaks area of Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what you see there is the original lava rock,” Novo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing that may surprise you: that volcano actually erupted hundreds of miles away to the southeast, in what’s now the present-day Mojave Desert city of Lancaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highway 25, the route to Pinnacles, sits “pretty much right on top of the San Andreas Fault all the way down from Hollister,” Novo said. So these rock formations that give the park its name have traveled north inch by inch, day by day, over millions of years along that fault, right to where they stand today.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Get to know this place’s living history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pinnacles’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/historyculture/native-peoples.htm\">earliest inhabitants\u003c/a>, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and Chalon Indian Nation, lived on and cared for this land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/historyculture/spanish-missionaries-and-early-settlers.htm\">Spanish missionaries \u003c/a>converted, enslaved and killed native people here, many of the native traditions were lost. Today, tribal members are working to\u003ca href=\"https://amahmutsun.org/pinnacles-national-park\"> bring their cultural history and knowledge back\u003c/a> to the park, Regan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_043_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_043_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_043_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_043_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunlight filters through trees as rock formations rise above a shaded hillside near Bear Gulch at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The legacy of the park’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-elizabeth-bacon-family-house.htm\">homesteader settlers\u003c/a> who inhabited the area in the 19th century is also on display at the park, where a historic homestead hike brings visitors to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/pinnacles-hike-bacon-butterfield-ranch-trail.htm\">Bacon Ranch and Butterfield Ranch,\u003c/a> named for two of the original homesteaders of the property that helped create the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also to thank for the park’s infrastructure is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/historyculture/civilian-conservation-corps.htm\">Civilian Conservation Corps\u003c/a>, which, in the 1930s, developed its highlights, including the treacherous High Peaks trail and Bear Gulch Reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the park is mostly cared for by the National Park Service and the Pinnacles Foundation, which has a team of volunteers that helps plug the holes in the park’s budget — even now that it’s a national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078378\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_034_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_034_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_034_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/031626_PinnaclesForTheDay-_GH_034_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildflowers bloom in the foreground along the Condor Gulch Trail, with the park’s rocky spires rising in the distance at Pinnacles National Park on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was no money attached” to attaining the national park status, Regan said. “They didn’t have enough money even to put up a sign to say ‘Pinnacles National Park.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation staffs the visitor centers, helps fund the condor program and builds new trails and signs throughout the park — even buying $3,000 worth of lamb carcasses from Costco for the condors during a period of avian flu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever is needed is kind of what we do,” Regan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Starting Wednesday, tens of thousands of humanitarian immigrants across California will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065310/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-to-cost-san-francisco-400m-end-care-for-thousands\">no longer be eligible for food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program\u003c/a>, benefits that are still sometimes referred to as food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes in who’s eligible for benefits through SNAP — called CalFresh in California — are among the huge cuts to social safety programs in the United States enacted by President Donald Trump’s 2025 H.R. 1 spending bill”, the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910533/what-the-big-beautiful-bill-means-for-california\">One Big Beautiful Bill Act.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some states have already implemented these restrictions, but California will be following suit starting April 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#eligibility\">Who will lose eligibility for CalFresh benefits starting April 1?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#straightaway\">Do impacted people lose benefits straightaway?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>While not all immigrants will be pushed out of CalFresh, Trump’s bill specifically targets individuals like refugees and people claiming asylum in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who have come here after escaping violence and persecution and torture,” said Jackie Mendelson, policy advocate with nonprofit organization \u003ca href=\"https://nourishca.org/\">Nourish California\u003c/a>. “These are communities that we have historically said, ‘You are welcome here. We have the support for you. We’re going to help you get established in our country.’ And now, the federal government is abandoning them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 72,000 lawfully present immigrants in the state will be impacted, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://nourishca.org/our-work/food4all/\">Food4All Coalition\u003c/a>, a statewide advocacy campaign, and the Alameda County Community Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While exact numbers are not available for the Bay Area, the organizations in a news release estimate that over 5,000 of these individuals are in Alameda County alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE01284_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064448\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE01284_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE01284_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE01284_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE01284_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trozalla Smith stands across advertisements for CalFresh as she holds her groceries from the Alameda Food Bank at the 12th Street BART Station in Oakland on Nov. 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Impacted groups already enrolled in CalFresh will \u003cem>not\u003c/em> lose their benefits right away. However, they will not be able to continue using CalFresh when they recertify their benefits after April 1. For most households, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/english/cf37.pdf\">recertification \u003c/a>usually takes place every 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to learn more about the bill’s impact on CalFresh, who will be most affected, and where you can find access to food in the Bay Area regardless of your situation or immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"eligibility\">\u003c/a>Who will no longer be eligible for CalFresh food benefits starting April 1?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/benefits-services/food-nutrition-services/calfresh/frequently-asked-questions\">the California Department of Social Services\u003c/a>, the following groups will no longer be eligible to apply for new CalFresh benefits starting April 1:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Asylees\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Refugees\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Parolees (unless they are \u003ca href=\"https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/orr/orr_fact_sheet_cuban_haitian_entrant.pdf\">Cuban and Haitian Entrants\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Individuals with deportation or removal withheld\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Conditional entrants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Survivors of trafficking\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“Battered noncitizens” \u003ca href=\"https://stgenssa.sccgov.org/debs/program_handbooks/common_place/assets/2CSI/05NCitCatCd/05_05BattrdNoncitiz.htm\">(victims of abuse)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Iraqis or Afghans with Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) who are not Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Certain Afghan Nationals granted parole between July 31, 2021, and September 30, 2023\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Certain Ukrainian Nationals granted parole between February 24, 2022, and September 30, 2024\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>According to CDSS, “if there are multiple people in your household with different immigration statuses, \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">you will receive a notice showing who is approved and who is denied.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/immigrants/public-benefits-immigrants\">Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for CalFresh.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Who is still eligible for CalFresh?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You are still \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">eligible for CalFresh\u003c/a> if you are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A citizen of the United States\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-legal-considerations/us-citizenship/Certificates-Non-Citizen-Nationality.html\">U.S. national\u003c/a> (for example, without citizenship but born in American Samoa or Swains Island)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/orr/orr_fact_sheet_cuban_haitian_entrant.pdf\">A Cuban and Haitian entrant (CHE) \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A citizen of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, or Palau\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) who has met the five-year waiting period or has an \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">exemption from the five-year waiting period\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If your immigration status \u003cem>changes\u003c/em> to one of the above (for example, you’ve become a lawful permanent resident), you may be eligible for CalFresh again and \u003ca href=\"https://calfresh.dss.ca.gov/food/officelocator/\">should contact your county worker\u003c/a> to learn more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What other changes to CalFresh eligibility should I know about now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The changes to eligibility for certain lawfully present immigrants. This will be on top of the restrictions that kicked in in November 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/benefits-services/food-nutrition-services/calfresh/frequently-asked-questions\">“must have heating or cooling costs separate from their housing costs” \u003c/a>to claim the Standard Utility Allowance. This does not apply to households that don’t include anyone over the age of 60 or someone with a disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be more changes to CalFresh eligibility coming on June 1, when some people receiving these benefits will need to complete \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/benefits-services/food-nutrition-services/calfresh/frequently-asked-questions\">new work or community engagement hours\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Will I lose my CalFresh benefits right away on April 1?\u003ca id=\"straightaway\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No: According to \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">CDSS\u003c/a>, your benefits will continue until your \u003cem>next\u003c/em> recertification, “as long as you continue to meet all other non-immigration eligibility criteria” to receive CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12064126 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE01472_TV-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most households \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">recertify every 12 months\u003c/a>, but some units may have longer periods than others. You can find out your recertification date on \u003ca href=\"http://benefitscal.com\">BenefitsCal.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that appointment, “a county worker will determine if you are still eligible for benefits at that time,” CDSS said. According to the agency, you will then receive a notification if you no longer meet CalFresh requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nourish California’s Mendelson said that her organization anticipates they’ll “see the majority drop-off for all of these folks” in the next six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It also means that beginning April 1st, if someone has one of these immigration statuses, and they have not yet applied for CalFresh, and they apply on April 1st, they will be denied benefits,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>I still have questions about my CalFresh eligibility. Who do I go to?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can call 1-877-847-3663 or \u003ca href=\"https://calfresh.dss.ca.gov/food/officelocator/\">visit a local office\u003c/a> to receive help with any CalFresh questions you might still have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelson said people should also consider consulting with an immigration legal expert or attorney to learn more about their public health benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/CalFreshGetty.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/CalFreshGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/CalFreshGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/CalFreshGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/CalFreshGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While not all immigrants will be pushed out of CalFresh, Trump’s bill specifically targets individuals like refugees and people claiming asylum in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Oscar Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new SNAP eligibility restrictions are “on top of the fears some immigrants already had under the Trump administration and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030564/who-can-see-my-tax-information-when-i-file\">data sharing between agencies\u003c/a>,” Mendelson said — which she sees as another part of a “greater fear and chilling effect that the Trump administration has been creating, attached to receiving public benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">a thorough guide on finding free or low-cost legal aid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If I’m losing CalFresh, are there government programs I can still use?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The California Food Assistance Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some — but not all — humanitarian immigrants may be qualified for\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/calfresh/california-food-assistance-program\"> the California Food Assistance Program\u003c/a>. For example, some battered noncitizens and certain parolees who will lose CalFresh eligibility starting April 1 \u003cem>may \u003c/em>be \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">eligible for CFAP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CFAP uses \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/calfresh/cfap/how-to-apply\">the same application as CalFresh\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12077353 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267571375-2000x1333.jpg'] “At recertification, your county worker will determine your eligibility for CalFresh,” \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">CDSS’ guidance\u003c/a> reads. “If you are no longer eligible for CalFresh due to H.R. 1 but you are eligible for CFAP, your county worker will adjust your benefits at that time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">the CDSS\u003c/a>, “To be eligible for CFAP benefits, you must be ineligible for CalFresh benefits solely due to your immigration status under \u003ca href=\"https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/personal-responsibility-work-opportunity-reconciliation-act-1996\">the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Examples of CFAP eligible individuals are noncitizens \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">include\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Legal permanent residents who have not met the five-year U.S. residency requirement or the 40 qualifying work quarters criteria\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Conditional entrants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Battered or abused\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As of June 1, \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">parolees\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">who have not met the five-year waiting period or an exemption. \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Mendelson said advocates like her are “working to expand our food assistance program to remove immigration status as a barrier.” Starting Oct. 2027, for example, CFAP will be \u003ca href=\"https://calfresh.guide/california-food-assistance-program-cfap/\">available for people 55 and older regardless of immigration status\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of expansion, Mendelson said, “would actually protect immigrant communities from any future attacks by any future federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Women, Infants, and Children Program is \u003cem>not \u003c/em>impacted by the changes going into effect on April 1. WIC provides support — \u003ca href=\"https://myfamily.wic.ca.gov/Home/HowWICHelps\">including food assistance\u003c/a> — for families with young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can check if you are eligible for WIC benefits by \u003ca href=\"https://myfamily.wic.ca.gov/Home/AmIEligible\">taking the state’s assessment online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Will applying to these programs impact my immigration status?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/public-charge-guide/\">California’s Health and Human Services\u003c/a> agency, the Trump administration has proposed removing a 2022 rule that \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/public-charge-guide/\">“removes barriers to accessing public benefits for most immigrants.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the Trump administration’s proposal is not yet in effect. That means that right now, using CFAP and CalFresh will \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">“not affect your application for a U.S. visa or your family-based application for a green card,”\u003c/a> according to CDSS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you have more questions about \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/public-charge-guide/\">public charges\u003c/a>, the CDSS guide suggests you\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\"> reach out to a legal expert\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Where else can I find food assistance? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>KQED has a thorough guide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard\">using food banks or food pantries near you\u003c/a>. Keep in mind that most food banks are not the actual site to get your meals, but rather a distributor to participating food pantries, organizations, nonprofits and churches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Read in Spanish: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062427/como-encontrar-un-banco-de-alimentos-o-despensa-cerca-de-usted-en-el-area-de-la-bahia\">Cómo encontrar un banco de alimentos o despensa cerca de usted en el Área de la Bahía\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Many food banks serve people regardless of immigration status. For example, the SF-Marin Food Bank states on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/find-food/\">its website\u003c/a> that it “is committed to serving residents regardless of their immigration status or identity” and as a non-government agency, does “not collect the immigration status of participants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For food banks across the states, typically you don’t need to provide information to get food,” Mendelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also said that anyone visiting a food bank that provides food through \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/tefap/emergency-food-assistance-program\">the Emergency Food Assistance Program\u003c/a> — a federal project — “might have to” give some identifying information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the best course of action is for folks to call their local food bank to ask about reporting requirements,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.foodnow.net/do-you-need-food-delivered-to-your-home/\">Some food banks, like the Alameda County Community Food Bank, also make home deliveries\u003c/a> if you’re physically unable to get to the food bank location. ACCFB said late last year that it’s seeing a significant increase in home delivery requests right now, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/bay-area-snap-benefits-21122988.php\">Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas has attributed \u003c/a>to fears many immigrants have about leaving their homes amid\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061545/bay-area-spared-from-federal-immigration-enforcement-surge-officials-say\"> threats of an immigration crackdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a regularly updated map or tool, you can use:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cafoodbanks.org/our-members/\">The California Association of Food Banks’ online tool\u003c/a>, which lists all the major food banks in the state\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://211ca.org/\">The state’s 211 hotline\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/find-food/\">The SF-Marin Food Bank search tool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityteam.org/get-help/san-francisco\">CityTeam San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/find-services/#health\">Mission Action’s\u003c/a> food assistance number, 415-633-6192\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.foodnow.net/find-a-food-pantry/\">Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/a>; you can also call 510-635-3663\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.foodbankccs.org/find-food/foodbycity/?_gl=1*3ajdlo*_up*MQ..*_ga*MjA5ODkyMDQ5NS4xNzYxMjQ2NjU0*_ga_8BLR9BK6YN*czE3NjEyNDY2NTMkbzEkZzAkdDE3NjEyNDY2NTMkajYwJGwwJGgw\">Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano\u003c/a>; you can also call for help at 855-309-3663\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://getfood.refb.org/getfood.html\">Redwood Empire\u003c/a> of Sonoma County; you can also text “FOOD” to 707-353-3882\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shfb.org/get-food/?filter_mode=distribution/\">Second Harvest of Silicon Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Local trusted community organizations, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.womensbuilding.org/programs/food-pantry\">the Women’s Building in San Francisco\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://sirenimmigrantrights.org/\"> SIREN in the South Bay\u003c/a>, are also a major way for people to connect to food resources, Mendelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you find a spot, be sure to check out the food bank or pantry online before heading out. Note what hours they are open, and for how long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some locations are open to anyone from any city or county and accept walk-ins, but some may require people to register for a spot beforehand or live in a specific zip code.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Where can my family find CalFresh eligibility information in other languages?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CDSS has Q&A PDFs about the CalFresh changes in the following languages:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color%20-%20Spanish.pdf\">Spanish\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Arabic.pdf\">Arabic\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Farsi_Dari.pdf\">Farsi/Dari\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Ukrainian.pdf\">Ukrainian\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Hmong.pdf\">Hmong\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Cambodian.pdf\">Cambodian\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Armenian.pdf\">Armenian\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh_Noncitizen_Eligibility_FAQ_Color_Chinese.pdf\">Chinese\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Hindi.pdf\">Hindi\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Japanese.pdf\">Japanese\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Korean.pdf\">Korean\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Lao.pdf\">Lao\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Mien.pdf\">Mien\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Portuguese.pdf\">Portuguese\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Punjabi.pdf\">Punjabi\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Russian.pdf\">Russian\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Tagalog.pdf\">Tagalog\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Thai.pdf\">Thai\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Vietnamese.pdf\">Vietnamese\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">Carly Severn\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who have come here after escaping violence and persecution and torture,” said Jackie Mendelson, policy advocate with nonprofit organization \u003ca href=\"https://nourishca.org/\">Nourish California\u003c/a>. “These are communities that we have historically said, ‘You are welcome here. We have the support for you. We’re going to help you get established in our country.’ And now, the federal government is abandoning them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 72,000 lawfully present immigrants in the state will be impacted, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://nourishca.org/our-work/food4all/\">Food4All Coalition\u003c/a>, a statewide advocacy campaign, and the Alameda County Community Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While exact numbers are not available for the Bay Area, the organizations in a news release estimate that over 5,000 of these individuals are in Alameda County alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE01284_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064448\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE01284_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE01284_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE01284_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE01284_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trozalla Smith stands across advertisements for CalFresh as she holds her groceries from the Alameda Food Bank at the 12th Street BART Station in Oakland on Nov. 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Impacted groups already enrolled in CalFresh will \u003cem>not\u003c/em> lose their benefits right away. However, they will not be able to continue using CalFresh when they recertify their benefits after April 1. For most households, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/english/cf37.pdf\">recertification \u003c/a>usually takes place every 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to learn more about the bill’s impact on CalFresh, who will be most affected, and where you can find access to food in the Bay Area regardless of your situation or immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"eligibility\">\u003c/a>Who will no longer be eligible for CalFresh food benefits starting April 1?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/benefits-services/food-nutrition-services/calfresh/frequently-asked-questions\">the California Department of Social Services\u003c/a>, the following groups will no longer be eligible to apply for new CalFresh benefits starting April 1:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Asylees\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Refugees\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Parolees (unless they are \u003ca href=\"https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/orr/orr_fact_sheet_cuban_haitian_entrant.pdf\">Cuban and Haitian Entrants\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Individuals with deportation or removal withheld\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Conditional entrants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Survivors of trafficking\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“Battered noncitizens” \u003ca href=\"https://stgenssa.sccgov.org/debs/program_handbooks/common_place/assets/2CSI/05NCitCatCd/05_05BattrdNoncitiz.htm\">(victims of abuse)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Iraqis or Afghans with Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) who are not Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Certain Afghan Nationals granted parole between July 31, 2021, and September 30, 2023\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Certain Ukrainian Nationals granted parole between February 24, 2022, and September 30, 2024\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>According to CDSS, “if there are multiple people in your household with different immigration statuses, \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">you will receive a notice showing who is approved and who is denied.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/immigrants/public-benefits-immigrants\">Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for CalFresh.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Who is still eligible for CalFresh?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You are still \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">eligible for CalFresh\u003c/a> if you are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A citizen of the United States\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-legal-considerations/us-citizenship/Certificates-Non-Citizen-Nationality.html\">U.S. national\u003c/a> (for example, without citizenship but born in American Samoa or Swains Island)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/orr/orr_fact_sheet_cuban_haitian_entrant.pdf\">A Cuban and Haitian entrant (CHE) \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A citizen of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, or Palau\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) who has met the five-year waiting period or has an \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">exemption from the five-year waiting period\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If your immigration status \u003cem>changes\u003c/em> to one of the above (for example, you’ve become a lawful permanent resident), you may be eligible for CalFresh again and \u003ca href=\"https://calfresh.dss.ca.gov/food/officelocator/\">should contact your county worker\u003c/a> to learn more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What other changes to CalFresh eligibility should I know about now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The changes to eligibility for certain lawfully present immigrants. This will be on top of the restrictions that kicked in in November 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/benefits-services/food-nutrition-services/calfresh/frequently-asked-questions\">“must have heating or cooling costs separate from their housing costs” \u003c/a>to claim the Standard Utility Allowance. This does not apply to households that don’t include anyone over the age of 60 or someone with a disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be more changes to CalFresh eligibility coming on June 1, when some people receiving these benefits will need to complete \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/benefits-services/food-nutrition-services/calfresh/frequently-asked-questions\">new work or community engagement hours\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Will I lose my CalFresh benefits right away on April 1?\u003ca id=\"straightaway\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No: According to \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">CDSS\u003c/a>, your benefits will continue until your \u003cem>next\u003c/em> recertification, “as long as you continue to meet all other non-immigration eligibility criteria” to receive CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most households \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">recertify every 12 months\u003c/a>, but some units may have longer periods than others. You can find out your recertification date on \u003ca href=\"http://benefitscal.com\">BenefitsCal.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that appointment, “a county worker will determine if you are still eligible for benefits at that time,” CDSS said. According to the agency, you will then receive a notification if you no longer meet CalFresh requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nourish California’s Mendelson said that her organization anticipates they’ll “see the majority drop-off for all of these folks” in the next six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It also means that beginning April 1st, if someone has one of these immigration statuses, and they have not yet applied for CalFresh, and they apply on April 1st, they will be denied benefits,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>I still have questions about my CalFresh eligibility. Who do I go to?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can call 1-877-847-3663 or \u003ca href=\"https://calfresh.dss.ca.gov/food/officelocator/\">visit a local office\u003c/a> to receive help with any CalFresh questions you might still have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelson said people should also consider consulting with an immigration legal expert or attorney to learn more about their public health benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/CalFreshGetty.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/CalFreshGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/CalFreshGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/CalFreshGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/CalFreshGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While not all immigrants will be pushed out of CalFresh, Trump’s bill specifically targets individuals like refugees and people claiming asylum in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Oscar Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new SNAP eligibility restrictions are “on top of the fears some immigrants already had under the Trump administration and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030564/who-can-see-my-tax-information-when-i-file\">data sharing between agencies\u003c/a>,” Mendelson said — which she sees as another part of a “greater fear and chilling effect that the Trump administration has been creating, attached to receiving public benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">a thorough guide on finding free or low-cost legal aid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If I’m losing CalFresh, are there government programs I can still use?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The California Food Assistance Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some — but not all — humanitarian immigrants may be qualified for\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/calfresh/california-food-assistance-program\"> the California Food Assistance Program\u003c/a>. For example, some battered noncitizens and certain parolees who will lose CalFresh eligibility starting April 1 \u003cem>may \u003c/em>be \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">eligible for CFAP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CFAP uses \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/calfresh/cfap/how-to-apply\">the same application as CalFresh\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> “At recertification, your county worker will determine your eligibility for CalFresh,” \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">CDSS’ guidance\u003c/a> reads. “If you are no longer eligible for CalFresh due to H.R. 1 but you are eligible for CFAP, your county worker will adjust your benefits at that time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">the CDSS\u003c/a>, “To be eligible for CFAP benefits, you must be ineligible for CalFresh benefits solely due to your immigration status under \u003ca href=\"https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/personal-responsibility-work-opportunity-reconciliation-act-1996\">the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Examples of CFAP eligible individuals are noncitizens \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">include\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Legal permanent residents who have not met the five-year U.S. residency requirement or the 40 qualifying work quarters criteria\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Conditional entrants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Battered or abused\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As of June 1, \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">parolees\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">who have not met the five-year waiting period or an exemption. \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Mendelson said advocates like her are “working to expand our food assistance program to remove immigration status as a barrier.” Starting Oct. 2027, for example, CFAP will be \u003ca href=\"https://calfresh.guide/california-food-assistance-program-cfap/\">available for people 55 and older regardless of immigration status\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of expansion, Mendelson said, “would actually protect immigrant communities from any future attacks by any future federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Women, Infants, and Children Program is \u003cem>not \u003c/em>impacted by the changes going into effect on April 1. WIC provides support — \u003ca href=\"https://myfamily.wic.ca.gov/Home/HowWICHelps\">including food assistance\u003c/a> — for families with young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can check if you are eligible for WIC benefits by \u003ca href=\"https://myfamily.wic.ca.gov/Home/AmIEligible\">taking the state’s assessment online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Will applying to these programs impact my immigration status?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/public-charge-guide/\">California’s Health and Human Services\u003c/a> agency, the Trump administration has proposed removing a 2022 rule that \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/public-charge-guide/\">“removes barriers to accessing public benefits for most immigrants.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the Trump administration’s proposal is not yet in effect. That means that right now, using CFAP and CalFresh will \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color.pdf\">“not affect your application for a U.S. visa or your family-based application for a green card,”\u003c/a> according to CDSS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you have more questions about \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/public-charge-guide/\">public charges\u003c/a>, the CDSS guide suggests you\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\"> reach out to a legal expert\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Where else can I find food assistance? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>KQED has a thorough guide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard\">using food banks or food pantries near you\u003c/a>. Keep in mind that most food banks are not the actual site to get your meals, but rather a distributor to participating food pantries, organizations, nonprofits and churches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Read in Spanish: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062427/como-encontrar-un-banco-de-alimentos-o-despensa-cerca-de-usted-en-el-area-de-la-bahia\">Cómo encontrar un banco de alimentos o despensa cerca de usted en el Área de la Bahía\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Many food banks serve people regardless of immigration status. For example, the SF-Marin Food Bank states on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/find-food/\">its website\u003c/a> that it “is committed to serving residents regardless of their immigration status or identity” and as a non-government agency, does “not collect the immigration status of participants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For food banks across the states, typically you don’t need to provide information to get food,” Mendelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also said that anyone visiting a food bank that provides food through \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/tefap/emergency-food-assistance-program\">the Emergency Food Assistance Program\u003c/a> — a federal project — “might have to” give some identifying information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the best course of action is for folks to call their local food bank to ask about reporting requirements,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.foodnow.net/do-you-need-food-delivered-to-your-home/\">Some food banks, like the Alameda County Community Food Bank, also make home deliveries\u003c/a> if you’re physically unable to get to the food bank location. ACCFB said late last year that it’s seeing a significant increase in home delivery requests right now, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/bay-area-snap-benefits-21122988.php\">Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas has attributed \u003c/a>to fears many immigrants have about leaving their homes amid\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061545/bay-area-spared-from-federal-immigration-enforcement-surge-officials-say\"> threats of an immigration crackdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a regularly updated map or tool, you can use:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cafoodbanks.org/our-members/\">The California Association of Food Banks’ online tool\u003c/a>, which lists all the major food banks in the state\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://211ca.org/\">The state’s 211 hotline\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/find-food/\">The SF-Marin Food Bank search tool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityteam.org/get-help/san-francisco\">CityTeam San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/find-services/#health\">Mission Action’s\u003c/a> food assistance number, 415-633-6192\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.foodnow.net/find-a-food-pantry/\">Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/a>; you can also call 510-635-3663\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.foodbankccs.org/find-food/foodbycity/?_gl=1*3ajdlo*_up*MQ..*_ga*MjA5ODkyMDQ5NS4xNzYxMjQ2NjU0*_ga_8BLR9BK6YN*czE3NjEyNDY2NTMkbzEkZzAkdDE3NjEyNDY2NTMkajYwJGwwJGgw\">Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano\u003c/a>; you can also call for help at 855-309-3663\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://getfood.refb.org/getfood.html\">Redwood Empire\u003c/a> of Sonoma County; you can also text “FOOD” to 707-353-3882\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shfb.org/get-food/?filter_mode=distribution/\">Second Harvest of Silicon Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Local trusted community organizations, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.womensbuilding.org/programs/food-pantry\">the Women’s Building in San Francisco\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://sirenimmigrantrights.org/\"> SIREN in the South Bay\u003c/a>, are also a major way for people to connect to food resources, Mendelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you find a spot, be sure to check out the food bank or pantry online before heading out. Note what hours they are open, and for how long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some locations are open to anyone from any city or county and accept walk-ins, but some may require people to register for a spot beforehand or live in a specific zip code.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Where can my family find CalFresh eligibility information in other languages?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CDSS has Q&A PDFs about the CalFresh changes in the following languages:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color%20-%20Spanish.pdf\">Spanish\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Arabic.pdf\">Arabic\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Farsi_Dari.pdf\">Farsi/Dari\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Ukrainian.pdf\">Ukrainian\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Hmong.pdf\">Hmong\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Cambodian.pdf\">Cambodian\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Armenian.pdf\">Armenian\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh_Noncitizen_Eligibility_FAQ_Color_Chinese.pdf\">Chinese\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Hindi.pdf\">Hindi\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Japanese.pdf\">Japanese\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Korean.pdf\">Korean\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Lao.pdf\">Lao\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Mien.pdf\">Mien\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Portuguese.pdf\">Portuguese\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Punjabi.pdf\">Punjabi\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Russian.pdf\">Russian\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Tagalog.pdf\">Tagalog\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Thai.pdf\">Thai\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshResourceCenter/CalFresh%20Noncitizen%20Eligibility%20FAQ_Color_Vietnamese.pdf\">Vietnamese\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">Carly Severn\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On the same day he returned to the White House in 2025, President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046217/what-the-supreme-courts-latest-ruling-means-for-birthright-citizenship%5C\">an executive order\u003c/a> that would severely limit birthright citizenship in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a lawsuit challenging this policy has reached the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, the justices will hear arguments in \u003cem>Trump v. Barbara\u003c/em> and decide if the president’s order — which would deny American citizenship to babies born in the country to parents who aren’t U.S. citizens or permanent legal residents— is in line with the Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s at stake in \u003cem>Trump v. Barbara\u003c/em>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several lower courts have already ruled against the Trump administration and blocked the executive order from being enforced in the last 14 months. If the Supreme Court strikes down the order, that would confirm the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">longstanding interpretation\u003c/a> of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, which states that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#CouldTrumpsexecutiveorderrevokeanyonesAmericancitizenship\">Could Trump’s executive order revoke anyone’s American citizenship?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ImhavingababysoonCouldmyfamilybeaffected\">I’m having a baby soon. Could my family be affected?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The White House, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/\">argues\u003c/a> that unless a child has a parent who’s a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, they should not be a U.S. citizen by birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If both parents are immigrants with no permanent legal status — a category that includes parents with no immigration documents, but also those with a student visa or temporary work permit — Trump’s executive order would deny those children U.S. citizenship at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The ornate columned facade of the US Supreme Court.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Supreme Court in Washington on April 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2023, around 300,000 babies were born to undocumented parents, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/08/21/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-population-reached-a-record-14-million-in-2023/\">according to the Pew Research Center\u003c/a>. According to Trump’s order, these babies are “not subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. government and therefore do not qualify for citizenship. But the federal government has not provided clear information on what legal status would be provided to children born in this situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community members would be stateless,” said Roslyne Shiao, co-executive director for AAPI New Jersey, an advocacy group for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders that has also organized a rally at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in defense of birthright citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court is expected to deliver its ruling sometime between June and July. As the country waits for this decision, KQED will be responding to questions from audience members about what’s at stake in this legal battle and what families need to know about the potential impacts of this Supreme Court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does Trump’s birthright citizenship order say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 20, Trump signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/\">an executive order\u003c/a> declaring that the federal government would no longer grant documents that confirm citizenship, like a Social Security Number or passport, to children born on or after Feb. 19, 2025, who are in the following situations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother was “unlawfully present” (with no legal status) in the U.S., and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother was in the U.S. with a temporary visa or permit, and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074482\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2262729717-scaled-e1773182284895.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1413\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Feb. 20, 2026, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The text of the executive order, while written in legal language that is often opaque to the general public, suggests that the following families could be affected by Trump’s order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents have no legal immigration documents at the time of their baby’s birth\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents only have a \u003cem>temporary \u003c/em>legal status, which could include: Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If one parent has no legal status and the other only has a temporary legal status, which could include: TPS, DACA, H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If the executive order is allowed to take effect, babies born to families in the above situations would not have birthright citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is the federal government enforcing this order right now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. The Trump administration currently cannot enforce the executive order due to a nationwide injunction \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/11/nx-s1-5463808/new-hampshire-judge-blocks-trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-nationwide\">issued last summer\u003c/a> by a federal judge in New Hampshire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order remains frozen until the Supreme Court makes a final decision over its legality. In the meantime, U.S. citizenship is still guaranteed to babies born to immigrant parents without permanent legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is behind \u003cem>Trump v. Barbara\u003c/em>?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>From the moment that Trump signed his executive order in 2025, different groups have sought to stop this policy in the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-two states — including California — announced a lawsuit the day after, and soon were able to obtain multiple nationwide injunctions from federal district judges. However, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044886/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-ruling-limits-nationwide-injunctions\">overturned these injunctions\u003c/a> last summer and ruled that lower courts had exceeded their authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078180\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/BirthrightCitizenshipGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/BirthrightCitizenshipGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/BirthrightCitizenshipGetty2-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/BirthrightCitizenshipGetty2-1536x995.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nine-month-old Tyler Colt enjoys a ride on his grandfather, Keith Kennedy’s, shoulders on June 30, 2016, in League City. \u003ccite>(Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the court still allows for nationwide injunctions in class-action cases. So in response, a coalition of civil rights groups presented the \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/news/brief-birthright-citizenship-scotus\">class-action \u003cem>Trump v. Barbara\u003c/em>\u003c/a> on behalf of newborn babies affected by the executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those groups is the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus, whose legal team is arguing that the question of birthright citizenship was established a long time ago — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">128 years ago\u003c/a>, specifically, in the landmark case \u003cem>United States v. Wong Kim Ark\u003c/em>.[aside postID=news_12015449 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241119_BirthrightCitizenshipExplainer_GC-16_qed-1020x680.jpg']Born in San Francisco in the 1870s to Chinese immigrants, Wong Kim Ark sued the federal government when he was denied reentry into the U.S. after a trip to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said that Wong was not a U.S. citizen but rather a Chinese national: a population that at the time was restricted from entering the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong’s case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where the federal government asserted that Wong could not be a citizen because his parents were not under the jurisdiction of the U.S. government at the time of his birth — a very similar claim to the one the Trump administration has used to defend its executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices did not accept this argument and \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/169/649\">sided with Wong\u003c/a> in 1898. In its ruling, the court declared that the Fourteenth Amendment — initially written to defend the rights of formerly enslaved African Americans and their children — also “includes the children born within the territory of the United States of all other persons, of whatever race or color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This legal battle is about defending the legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the Bay Area’s Chinese-American community that stood by him, said Winnie Kao, senior counsel for Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 120-plus years since, the decision has been understood to affirm that U.S.-born children are citizens, regardless of their parents’ immigration status,” Kao said. “All three branches of government — Republican and Democratic — have relied upon that understanding since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"CouldTrumpsexecutiveorderrevokeanyonesAmericancitizenship\">\u003c/a>Would Trump’s executive order take away anyone’s American citizenship?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive order said nothing about rescinding the citizenship of people born in the U.S. before Feb. 19, 2025, regardless of the immigration status of their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I’m worried: Is my newborn baby still a U.S. citizen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive order is still blocked nationwide as the Supreme Court makes a final decision, which isn’t expected until late June or early July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this moment, if your baby was born on or after Feb. 19, 2025, the federal government will still recognize them as a U.S. citizen, regardless of your own immigration status or what state the child was born in.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Trump administration, what will happen to babies excluded from U.S. citizenship?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This remains unclear. The White House did not directly answer KQED’s question regarding what legal status would be available for affected babies if the Supreme Court rules in its favor.[aside postID=news_12078171 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/gettyimages-2157829281-11-1020x680.jpeg']Instead, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson wrote in an email to KQED that “[t]he Supreme Court has the opportunity to review the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause and restore the meaning of citizenship in the United States to its original public meaning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials also did not provide information on how children excluded from U.S. citizenship at birth would be able to attain this status in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Birthright citizenship is this really powerful idea that if you’re born in this country, you belong,” said Asian Law Caucus’s Kao. “You start as a full member of this democracy, regardless of your parents’ status or circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some children could seek the citizenship of their parents’ home countries, that’s not guaranteed. Some nations — like \u003ca href=\"https://consulmex.sre.gob.mx/losangeles/index.php/es/regcivil-podnotariales-menu2020/registro-de-nacimiento-de-hijos-de-mexicanos-nacidos-en-el-extranjero\">Mexico\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.br/pt-br/servicos/registrar-nascimento-no-exterior\">Brazil\u003c/a> — do make it possible for parents to register their baby for citizenship at a consulate in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other nations, including \u003ca href=\"https://en.nia.gov.cn/n147418/n147458/c155976/content.html\">China\u003c/a>, prevent someone from seeking that country’s citizenship if that person lives elsewhere. And traveling abroad would be almost impossible for U.S.-born babies affected by the order, as they would lack a passport from any country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"ImhavingababysoonCouldmyfamilybeaffected\">\u003c/a>I’m currently expecting a baby, and my family could be affected by this executive order. Should I do anything to prepare?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some legal scholars told KQED that they’d be surprised if the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration. One major reason they point out: every lower-ranking judge involved in this legal battle has said that the executive order goes against established law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just three days after Trump signed the executive order in January 2025, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour blocked the policy. “I have been on the bench for over four decades,” Coughenour said. “I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as it is here. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078279\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078279\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/BirthrightCitizenshipGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/BirthrightCitizenshipGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/BirthrightCitizenshipGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/BirthrightCitizenshipGetty3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student carries her baby at Lincoln Park High School, a school for pregnant students and young mothers, in Brownsville, Texas, on Nov. 1, 2023. \u003ccite>(Veronica G. Cardenas/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the possibility still exists that the conservative-leaning Supreme Court could hand Trump an unexpected victory and overturn historical precedent — as happened \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\">in 2022\u003c/a> when the justices struck down \u003cem>Roe. v Wade\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kao from Asian Law Caucus said that even if the Supreme Court upholds the executive order, families could nonetheless anticipate an “implementation period” before the order took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to anyone expecting a baby very soon, Kao said, talk with an immigration lawyer as soon as possible. “Get a passport [for the baby] immediately,” she said. “Don’t sit and wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#CouldTrumpsexecutiveorderrevokeanyonesAmericancitizenship\">Could Trump’s executive order revoke anyone’s American citizenship?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ImhavingababysoonCouldmyfamilybeaffected\">I’m having a baby soon. Could my family be affected?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The White House, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/\">argues\u003c/a> that unless a child has a parent who’s a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, they should not be a U.S. citizen by birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If both parents are immigrants with no permanent legal status — a category that includes parents with no immigration documents, but also those with a student visa or temporary work permit — Trump’s executive order would deny those children U.S. citizenship at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The ornate columned facade of the US Supreme Court.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SUPREME-COURT-SCOTUS-AP-JM-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Supreme Court in Washington on April 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2023, around 300,000 babies were born to undocumented parents, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/08/21/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-population-reached-a-record-14-million-in-2023/\">according to the Pew Research Center\u003c/a>. According to Trump’s order, these babies are “not subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. government and therefore do not qualify for citizenship. But the federal government has not provided clear information on what legal status would be provided to children born in this situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community members would be stateless,” said Roslyne Shiao, co-executive director for AAPI New Jersey, an advocacy group for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders that has also organized a rally at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in defense of birthright citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court is expected to deliver its ruling sometime between June and July. As the country waits for this decision, KQED will be responding to questions from audience members about what’s at stake in this legal battle and what families need to know about the potential impacts of this Supreme Court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does Trump’s birthright citizenship order say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 20, Trump signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/\">an executive order\u003c/a> declaring that the federal government would no longer grant documents that confirm citizenship, like a Social Security Number or passport, to children born on or after Feb. 19, 2025, who are in the following situations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother was “unlawfully present” (with no legal status) in the U.S., and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother was in the U.S. with a temporary visa or permit, and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074482\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2262729717-scaled-e1773182284895.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1413\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Feb. 20, 2026, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The text of the executive order, while written in legal language that is often opaque to the general public, suggests that the following families could be affected by Trump’s order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents have no legal immigration documents at the time of their baby’s birth\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents only have a \u003cem>temporary \u003c/em>legal status, which could include: Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If one parent has no legal status and the other only has a temporary legal status, which could include: TPS, DACA, H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If the executive order is allowed to take effect, babies born to families in the above situations would not have birthright citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is the federal government enforcing this order right now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. The Trump administration currently cannot enforce the executive order due to a nationwide injunction \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/11/nx-s1-5463808/new-hampshire-judge-blocks-trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-nationwide\">issued last summer\u003c/a> by a federal judge in New Hampshire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order remains frozen until the Supreme Court makes a final decision over its legality. 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However, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044886/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-ruling-limits-nationwide-injunctions\">overturned these injunctions\u003c/a> last summer and ruled that lower courts had exceeded their authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078180\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/BirthrightCitizenshipGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/BirthrightCitizenshipGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/BirthrightCitizenshipGetty2-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/BirthrightCitizenshipGetty2-1536x995.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nine-month-old Tyler Colt enjoys a ride on his grandfather, Keith Kennedy’s, shoulders on June 30, 2016, in League City. \u003ccite>(Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the court still allows for nationwide injunctions in class-action cases. 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