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Mosswood Park. Mosswood Park is a 4-acre (16,000 m 2) public park in Oakland, California, located on W MacArthur Boulevard between Webster Street and Broadway.Managed by the City of Oakland's Department of Parks and Recreation, it contains a community recreation center as well as extensive grassy lawns, picnic areas, children's play equipment, dog runs, tennis and basketball courts, [1] and ...
This page shows a list of parks in Oakland, California. [1] 25th Street Mini Park — 0.28 acres (1,100 m 2) — 25th Street, Oakland, CA;
Oakland Park and Recreation Department website Archived 2018-12-26 at the Wayback Machine “Oakland Children’s Fairyland Puppeteer Lewis Mahlmann Dies,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 2014 "60 Years After It Was Built, Children’s Fairyland Keeps the Tradition of Storytelling Alive,” OaklandNorth.net, February 29, 2012
Oakland has many parks and recreation centers which total 5,937 acres (2,403 ha). In its 2013 ParkScore ranking, The Trust for Public Land , a national land conservation organization, reported that Oakland had the 18th best park system among the 50 most populous U.S. cities. [ 178 ]
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The administrative office is located in Oakland. As of 2020, EBRPD spans 124,909 acres (50,549 ha) [1] with 73 parks and over 1,330 miles (2,140 km) of trails. Some of these parks are wilderness areas; others include a variety of visitor attractions, with opportunities for swimming, boating and camping.
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.
[2] [6] [7] The park began to be built in 2001 and it encompasses two older parks: the Hardy and Redondo parks, [2] [6] [7] subsequently popularly known as Big Frog and Little Frog parks. [8] Its construction was led by the community volunteer group Friends of the Rockridge-Temescal Greenbelt (FROG), which continues to maintain and improve the ...