San Joaquin River Parkway recreational video

We produced a video on the San Joaquin River Parkway, near Fresno, California. It was originally available in 2001. We canoed, biked, hiked, and flew over this parkway to make the video. We've now posted it online for all to enjoy. Here's the link: https://youtu.be/qJrMUAUFA_M

Remember, it's not just a picture (video), it's a story!

Robinson Twins - American River Parkway

Our first recreational video, The American River Parkway, was video-recorded in 1999 and released in 2000. This part of Sacramento is our home turf, so to speak, so we wanted to make it first. We went to college by walking along the American River, we've biked the parkway's length several times, go jogging along it, and have paddled most of it. For the video, we also flew over it in a small airplane. We hope you enjoy the adventure that's within easy reach of hundreds of thousands of people in Sacramento County, California. Here's the link to our video: https://youtu.be/gmbOhAckfc8

The picture is from our airplane flight and shows Discovery Park and the confluence where the cleaner American River joins the muddier Sacramento River. The closer bridge is Jibboom Street while the larger bridge is Interstate-5. Old Sacramento State Historic Park is nearby to the right of this photo (not shown).

Remember, it's not just a picture (video), it's a story!

Riverview Ranch from the San Joaquin River bluffs

The Riverview Ranch serves as a visitor center for the San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust. The house has been turned into a museum and there's a gift shop in the middle building. A storage building further to the left in this image houses the Trust's canoes, which are used for trips down the river. The San Joaquin River forms into Millerton Lake behind Friant Dam, which shows the orange glow of the setting sun on its face, 7 miles away.The Sierra foothills appear beyond the dam. The bluffs created updrafts of air as the day warms up, so you can frequently see hawks and vultures riding on these air currents.

We made a recreational video about the San Joaquin River around the year 2000, but now want to re-do it in high definition. For that recreational video, we canoed the river from Lost Lake to the Highway 145 bridge (about 33 miles), biked the Eaton Trail, and flew over this section of the river twice. The Parkway expanded several times after we made the video, so it's already out of date. There are plans to eventually construct a hiking trail along the San Joaquin River that would allow hikers and backpackers to start in the Fresno, California area and walk all the way up to the Pacific Crest Trail, in the High Sierra.

Remember, it's not just a photo, it's a story!