Doug McConnell

We’ll visit what may be the best and biggest opportunity for large scale wetland restoration in the Bay Area.

We’ll visit what may be the best and biggest opportunity for large scale wetland restoration in the Bay Area. The Sonoma Land Trust and its partners are working on a critical piece of an ecological puzzle in an effort to protect our homes, roadways and infrastructure from the effects of climate change and rising sea level.

Discover a brand new trail and visitor experience opening soon in Yosemite National Park that will bring visitors closer than ever before to one of the most iconic landmarks in the Valley: Bridalveil Fall.

We’ll discover that combating climate change and reducing the grave dangers it poses requires us to make major public investments in protecting and restoring our damaged natural world as quickly and as well as we possibly can.

Discover the inspirational history and legacy of the East Bay Regional Park District.

Discover the inspirational history and legacy of the East Bay Regional Park District.

Take a remarkable nearly 90-year journey as we tell the inspirational tale of the founding of the East Bay Regional Park District in the darkness of the Great Depression and its astounding growth and evolution ever since.

Doug McConnell takes you around the San Francisco Bay in this episode of OpenRoad.

Doug McConnell takes you around the San Francisco Bay in this episode of OpenRoad.

We’ll explore the gorgeous and world-class legacy of open space protection along the San Mateo County coast, which has been saved from suburbanization over the past 50 years by the people of the region.

Doug McConnell takes you along the San Mateo County coast in this episode of OpenRoad.

The Peninsula Open Space Trust is working to preserve a precious commodity near Silicon Valley… the open space that provides respite from the stresses of modern urban life.

See Mt. Tamalpais, Marin County’s iconic landmark, through the eyes and lens of a volunteer fire lookout and filmmaker who is passionate about preserving the mountain and restoring its historic West Peak.

Just 40 miles from downtown San Francisco, a young peninsula family is proving that sustainable agriculture and preserving open space can work hand-in-hand.

OpenRoad with Doug McConnell takes viewers on journeys to explore the natural, historical and cultural treasures of the Bay Area and northern California focusing principally in parks and open spaces protected by the public and made accessible to all people for all time.

Doug McConnell has hosted and produced many series, specials and news reports on commercial and public television since moving back to the Bay Area in 1983. Among his series was the legendary, “Bay Area Backroads,” the longest-running television series in Bay Area broadcast history.