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09/26/2025

🌿 Join Our Team: Senior Park Aide – Volunteer Program Support!

California State Parks is hiring a Senior Park Aide to support our volunteer program at Tijuana River NERR, Border Field SP, and Silver Strand SB.

This role provides essential administrative support for volunteer coordination in education, stewardship, maintenance, research, and coastal training. You’ll join a dedicated team of educators, scientists, maintenance staff, and park managers working to conserve resources and strengthen community connections.

✅ As a Senior Park Aide, you will:

Assist with volunteer coordination and program operations

Support scheduling, record-keeping, and communication with partners

Help ensure smooth collaboration between staff, volunteers, and partner agencies

📍 Location: San Diego County (TRNERR, Border Field SP, Silver Strand SB)
💼 Position: Senior Park Aide – Volunteer Program Support
💰 Salary: $20.90 – $25.15/hour | Seasonal/Part-Time
🗓️ Final Filing Date: October 3, 2025

🖥️ Apply now! Search JC-491205 on CalCareers.

07/26/2024

📸 1920s view of Silver Strand State Beach (facing southeast) prior to the WWII-era dredging and filling. Notice the thin strand and the water between Coronado and North Island.

Let's explore the history of Silver Strand State Beach!

Over time, the 14-mile-long San Diego Bay has been reshaped for human use. During World War II, the U.S. Navy took over dredging operations to deepen the channel for homeported vessels and other military purposes. Millions of tons of sand were dredged from the bay and deposited along both sides of the highway, widening the once narrow sandspit. The coastal strand and dunes were affected but have since recovered.

Photo Credit: Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers; National Archives at Riverside

02/01/2024

A rare plant emerges on the bayside

By the 1990's, much of the bayside at Silver Strand State Beach was covered with thick mats of invasive sea fig (Carpobrotus edulis), a succulent plant native to South Africa. After the sea fig was pulled in the early 2000's, seeds of native dune plants began growing in the sand, after years spent dormant underneath the sea fig. Since then, a flora rich in sensitive plant species has emerged.

One such discovery was Brand's phacelia (Phacelia stellaris), an annual plant in the borage family with deeply lobed leaves and bell-shaped pale violet flowers that often grows to be a few centimeters tall. This was an exciting find because Brand's phacelia is rare, currently located in just twelve occurrences (seven in the United States and five in Mexico). The species is categorized by the California Native Plant Society as rare, threatened, or endangered in California and elsewhere, and seriously endangered in California.

Image Description: Close up image of Brand's phacelia at Silver Strand State Beach.

12/21/2023

These beautiful sunset images at the Silver Strand State Beach were taken by our own camp host, Barbara Casados.

12/07/2023

Come find your own path at the Silver Strand State Beach.

11/30/2023

Here at the Silver Strand State Beach you can have the pleasure of watching the Brown Pelicans fish for their morning meals.

11/27/2023

Come see the beautiful winter sunsets at the Silver Strand State Beach.

11/22/2023

Sanderlings are extraordinary migrants. Breeding adults will fly thousands of miles to the Artic breeding grounds in the summer. Some will migrate from as far south as Chile all the way to the Arctic in the summer. Non-breeding adults may choose to save energy and stay in their winter coastal areas all year long.

They can be found skittering across coastal beaches all over the world probing the sand for sand crabs and other crustaceans, and then retreating as a wave advances. Come see these magnificent little birds at the Silver Strand State Beach this winter.

11/17/2023

Come hear the story of the pink flamingos in the South San Diego Bay at the "Secrets of San Diego Bay Bike Tour" that happens every Saturday at the Silver Strand State Beach between 10-12. This free activity will reveal many little known facts about the South San Diego Bay. Please visit the Silver Strand State Beach website to find our more information, and sign- up: https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25746

11/15/2023

Over the last three weeks our amazing feathered friends from the North have been arriving in the San Diego Bay. They have migrated down from places as far North as Alaska to escape the cold and forage on the eelgrass in the bay. Come take a look at the new arrivals on a low tide when visiting the Silver Strand State Beach bayside.

11/03/2023

We usually think of the Great Egret as a bird that stalks small fish, but it will also stalk mice and lizards as part of its diet. 🦎

Come visit Silver Strand State Beach to spot amazing animals such as this Great Egret! 🦀🐡🐋

10/28/2023

Take a look at some wonderful examples of animal art created here at the beach! 🎨🏖

Come learn about the animals 🦀🐡🐋 at the Silver Strand State Beach while coloring, painting, and doing animal crafts. You can find the Discovery Table at the RV check-in kiosk on Fridays from 2-4pm or on Saturdays from 2-4pm at the Crown Cove area.

Look on the Silver Strand State Beach website for up-to-date information: https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25746

Address

5000 Highway 75
Coronado, CA
92118

Telephone

(619) 435-5184

Website

https://www.parks.ca.gov/SilverStrand

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