Members of the Volunteer Hiking Patrol (VHP), one of five patrol groups in the Volunteer Trail Safety Patrol of the East Bay Regional Park District, walk, hike, and run on District trails. VHP members meet other District visitors, provide them with education and safety advice, and encourage them to follow District rules. In their patrol activities, VHP members help to:
Two styles of VHP shirts. The individual in the center, not in uniform, is not a patrol member.
The Volunteer Hiking Patrol has been supporting the East Bay Regional Park District since 1994. You can most easily recognize us on the trails by the "Trail Safety Patrol" or "Hiking Patrol" lettering on our shirts, sweatshirts, windbreakers, or pullover tops. Most of these items have white or yellow lettering on a forest green background, but we do also have warm-weather T-shirts that have forest green lettering on a wheat-colored background. Like all Volunteer Trail Safety Patrol members, we carry District ID cards.
Volunteer Hiking Patrol members spend a minimum of 100 hours each year patrolling trails in the District. Members also attend monthly membership meetings, on the third Tuesday evening of each month (except December), at District headquarters in Oakland. Members are expected to attend at least eight of those eleven annual monthly meetings.
If you are willing and able to join this patrol group, please request more information by completing the online form. Our Volunteer Coordinator will contact you.
