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The Bay Model Visitor Center in Sausalito is a fully accessible education center administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers which hosts a working hydraulic model of the San...
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Bay Model Visitor Center. 2100 Bridgeway. Sausalito, CA...
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA 94965 Phone: 415-332-3871 Neighborhood: Marinship. Website is here. Calendar of Events is here. Free parking in lot. Insiders Tip: Although the address for the Bay Model Visitors Center is on Bridgeway, the building itself is actually located on Marinship Way, which ...
Click hereto read how the Army Corps of Engineers created the Bay Model in the 1950s to save us from a real estate development scheme worthy of a Bond Villain! Without the Bay Model untold environmental damage might have irreparably harmed San Francisco Bay’s complex ecosystem.
When it’s raining the Bay Model is a sprawling place to visit that’s both dry and fascinating for kids. It’s not a place where kids get a chance to run, but they’ll do a lot of walking as they look at the multi-acre working model of San Francisco Bay.
Holidays
The Bay Model is closedon the following Holidays (and since specific days vary by year we recommend you call ahead if visiting close to a holiday to see when they will be open): Memorial Day June 18 – In honor of Juneteenth Holiday 4th of July Columbus Day Veteran’s Day Thanksgiving Day Christmas Eve (Some years — call ahead to see if they’ll be open) Christmas Day New Year’s Eve (Some years — call ahead to see if they’ll be open) New Year’s Day
Admission is free but there’s a donation box is in the lobby (and that donation is well deserved, since they’re teaching people to preserve the Bay we all depend upon). Another reason to donate: See this linkfor how the Bay Model and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers helped save San Francisco Bay from a man-made disaster in the 1950’s!
There’s a little-known reason “Why the Bay Model should win an international awardfor saving San Francisco Bay!” The facility was originally built in unused government buildings to evaluate different options for real estate development, new land creation by filling in shallow portions of the Bay, and different transportation and water storage ideas...
The Model itself is a giant, indoor, concrete, hydrodynamic simulator. US Army Corps engineers and scientists used the Bay Model for many years to test several theories for collecting...
Sep 15, 2014 · Bay Model. Operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bay Model is a giant hydraulic replica of San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. It is housed in a converted World II-era warehouse in Sausalito near San Francisco.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model is a working hydraulic scale model of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta System. While the Bay Model is still operational, it is no longer used for scientific research but is instead open to the public alongside educational exhibits about Bay hydrology.
This is a huge model that the Army Corps of Engineers used to see what the effects of dredging/pollution etc would have on the Bay and surrounding delta river system. You can see the bridges, the bay, and all the river systems.
- 2100 Bridgeway Blvd Sausalito, CA 94965
