Looking for the perfect park for your next family outing this summer? With 75 across Modesto, offering various amenities from splash pads to riverside trails, every park has families in mind. Whether ...

In the 1960s, Modesto-area leaders began acquiring pieces of what would become Tuolumne River Regional Park. They had a grand vision for a seven-mile river stretch that had lost much of its natural ...

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The city of Modesto has plans for extensive renovations to Cesar E. Chavez Park, pictured Nov. 29, 2023, that will include a new pool with aquatic center and skate park. Marijke Rowland ...

The Tuolumne River Trust seeks input from residents on upgrades to the riverside park in Modesto as part of an ongoing process to increase public participation. Tuolumne River Regional Park (TRRP) is ...

At the corner of Kearney and Princeton avenues in Modesto, J.M. Pike Park sits guarded by rows of fabric-screened fencing. A reader asked Bee Curious, a community-driven series where reporters answer ...

OUTLINING HIS PROPOSALS. >> ONE OF MODESTO’S OLDEST PARKS WILL GET A MUCH NEEDED FACELIFT. THE MANCINI PARK SITS ALONG THE TUOLUMNE RIVER NEAR HERNDON ROAD. THEIR PLAYGROUND HAD NOT BEEN UPGRADED ...

A panel gave tentative support Wednesday to a proposal to roughly double the budget for Tuolumne River Regional Park. But the idea, involving up to $5 million over four years from the Measure H sales ...

J.M. Pike Park in Modesto has reopened with new amenities and a major infrastructure overhaul aimed at fixing longstanding stormwater issues. The 6-acre park at Kearney and Princeton avenues, near ...

The remaking of west Modesto’s César Chavez Park is expected to start in November, some four and a half years after the state awarded the city an $8.5 million grant to pay for it. And the project will ...