https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/14/how-covid-changed-bay-area-parks/ > There’s no question that running a business during the COVID pandemic has been hard. > But how about a 125,000-acre spread — four times as large as the city of San Francisco — with 25 million visitors a year? For the last 10 years, Bob Doyle worked as the general manager of the East Bay Regional Park District, America’s largest regional park system. He managed 73 parks in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, with 1,300 miles of trails and more than 800 employees.