Glen Echo Creek
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| Glen Echo Creek Cemetery Creek | |
|---|---|
 A section of Glen Echo Creek in Oak Glen Park | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Alameda |
| City | Oakland |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Oakland Hills |
| Mouth | Lake Merritt |
• coordinates | 37°48′38″N 122°15′42″W / 37.81062°N 122.26169°W |
| Basin size | 2.6 mi2 (6.7 km2)[1] |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Rockridge Branch, Broadway Branch |
Glen Echo Creek (also known as Cemetery Creek) is a creek that runs from the Oakland Hills to Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. Although most of it is underground, the creek does surface in several locations.[2] It has two branches, the Rockridge Branch and the Broadway Branch.[1]
Glen Echo Creek is part of the 2.6-square-mile Glen Echo Creek Watershed and drains parts of Upper Rockridge, Piedmont Avenue, and Piedmont. Both the main creek and its Rockridge Branch start in the Oakland Hills around the Rock Ridge outcroppings.[1] Glen Echo Creek runs past the Mountain View Cemetery, then through the Piedmont Avenue neighborhood, where it surfaces for a stretch that includes the Glen Echo Creek Park pocket park.[3] After continuing underground in a culvert, it again surfaces at Oak Glen Park along Richmond Boulevard between Westfall Avenue and Randwick Avenue.[2][1] From there, it continues mostly underground to Lake Merritt.
The Rockridge Branch flows from the hills to a pond near Pleasant Valley Avenue and then continues as the Broadway Branch. It surfaces briefly near 38th Street and Manila Avenue before continuing under Mosswood Park and eventually joining the main creek near Lake Merritt.[1]