It is a part of the East Bay Regional Park District system and opened in 2005.

[1] The park features an $11 million, 5,000-square-foot Delta Visitor Center, which operates as a natural history museum, science laboratory, and staging area for paddling and hiking trips along the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta.

The center includes a 1,200 square feet (110 m2) interactive map of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta that shows visitors how water flows through the region.

[2] The park is named for a break in the levee system that flooded an asparagus farm between the San Joaquin River and Dutch Slough in 1928.

Tri Delta Transit #300 provides access to the park through Vintage Parkway and Big Break Road on weekdays.