Editing Alamo, California (section)

====Hap Magee Ranch Park====
[[File:Aerial view of Hap Magee Ranch Park showing childrens playground in the foreground, picnic area on the left and park area in the background.JPG|thumb|400px|Aerial view of Hap Magee Ranch Park showing children's playground in the foreground, picnic area on the left and park area in the background]]
Located on the Alamo-Danville Border at 1025 La Gonda Way. This 16.3 acre park has several historic structures and is managed jointly by Alamo and [[Danville, California|Danville]]. A barn façade at the park entrance memorializes the park's former use as a ranch for longhorn steer with the owner being Hap Magee during the years of 1953 and 1985.

Before the cattle ranch, the site was a summer camp for San Francisco orphans, known as Camp Swain. The property was purchased in 1874 by Captain Isaac and Ann Trasker Swain on behalf of an orphanage in San Francisco. The Swains thought the children should have a warm place to go during San Francisco's damp summers. In 1911 the San Francisco Protestant Orphanage first brought their children to Camp Swain. The orphans came to the valley from 1911 to 1952, using the train and then buses. There is a drinking fountain commemorating Camp Swain with a plaque and a brick rendering of children playing.

Today there are picnic facilities, children's water play area, a large meadow with a spectacular heritage oak, dog parks and off-street parking. The park sits near the intersection of the Iron Horse Trail and the Las Trampas to Mt. Diablo Regional Trail.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.alamore.org/mageehistory.htm|title=History of Hap Magee Ranch Park|website=www.alamore.org}}</ref>