Advocates for Coe Park was formed to ensure that portions of Henry W. Coe State Park are not converted for uses contrary to the General Plan for Henry W. Coe State Park, pursuant to California Resource Code 5019.53.

Coe Park is a magnificent sprawling State Park east of San José and Silicon Valley at its north end, and east of Gilroy at its southern end. It is the largest non-desert State Park in California.

Despite its close proximity to millions of people, it contains nearly 90,000 acres of oak savannah and riparian sycamore woodlands, huge meadows, deep canyons, many steep ridgelines and mountains. It is one of our last publicly accessible places where a visitor can enjoy the once vast quintessential oak-studded landscape California is famous for.

It is home to one of the largest state-designated wilderness areas in California (23,300 acres,) making it a very special asset to the nearby residents of the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. It is now under serious threat from a proposal to build a statewide high-speed train system.

This website is dedicated to providing content related to advocacy and permanent protection of this great place - seemingly now a recurrent target for one proposed project or another. Nothing would please us more than taking this site down when and if the park is fully protected against non-mission use.

To learn about events, programs, and visiting Henry W. Coe State Park, please visit www.coepark.org.

"So, when you examine this question, do we look at parks as places to stick things, construction projects, you name it, the answer is no, no, no! These lands were bought for a specific purpose. We have to maintain their environmental integrity, or we violate their value to future generations."
- Ruth Coleman, Acting Director Department of Parks & Recreation
- S.F. Chronicle, Feb 6, 2003

"I have said before that after visiting Nepal, Tibet, the Sierra Nevada and the Rockies, I have never been anywhere wilder than the Orestimba Wilderness - and it is a mere 20 minute flight for a Red-tailed hawk from downtown San Jose."
- Ron Erskine
- The Gilroy Dispatch, Wednesday, May 26, 2004

"Wilderness is a resource that can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified to keep an area usable either for recreation, or for science, or for wildlife, but the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible."
- Aldo Leopold
- Biography