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Joaquin Miller Park is a large open space park in the Oakland Hills owned and operated by the city of Oakland, California.It is named after early California writer and poet Joaquin Miller, who bought the land in the 1880s, naming it "The Hights" [sic], and lived in the house preserved as the Joaquin Miller House.
The Joaquin Miller House, also known as The Abbey, is a historic house in Joaquin Miller Park, a public park in the Oakland Hills area of Oakland, California, United States. A crude, vaguely Gothic structure, it was the home of poet Joaquin Miller from 1886 until his death in 1913. Miller was one of the nation's first poets to write about the ...
The Oakland Hills (in gold) lie between Oakland's flatlands and East Bay Regional Park District. Oakland Hills is an informal term used to indicate the city neighborhoods lying within the eastern portion of Oakland, California. [1] The northernmost neighborhoods were devastated by the Oakland firestorm of 1991.
Montclair is located along the western slope of the Oakland Hills from a valley formed by the Hayward Fault to the upper ridge of the hills. Although there is no formal definition of the neighborhood, the general boundaries are Highway 24 to the north, Joaquin Miller Road to the south, the city of Piedmont to the west and the Contra Costa ...
Downtown and West Oakland are located entirely in the flatlands, while North and East Oakland incorporate lower hills and flatlands neighborhoods. This hills/flatlands division extends beyond Oakland's borders into neighboring cities in the East Bay's urban core such as Berkeley , Hayward , San Leandro , and Richmond .
PHOTO: An air tanker drops retardant on a grass fire burning above Interstate 580 in Oakland, Calif., Oct. 18, 2024. (Noah Berger/AP)
Piedmont Pines is an affluent residential neighborhood in the hills of Oakland, California.It is generally bounded by Highway 13 (the Warren Freeway) to the west, Shepherd Canyon Rd. to the north, Skyline Blvd. to the east, and Joaquin Miller Park to the south.
The legendary Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Michigan was engulfed in flames earlier this morning. Established in 1922, the clubhouse was almost entirely destroyed by a massive ...