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Skyline Gate at Redwood Regional Park

Apr 30th

Encompassing 1,829 acres of the canyon carved by Redwood Creek and its surrounding ridges, Redwood Regional Park sits stately above the city of Oakland providing an instant oasis of natural beauty and recreation for residents of the East Bay. The expansive forests of coastal redwood trees for which the park was named More >

Activities, Landmarks, Outdoors, Parks, Pets, Views

Union Point Park on the Estuary

Mar 24th

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Situated on the “Oakland Riviera” between Coast Guard Island and Alameda’s Park Street Bridge, Union Point Park offers a relaxing waterfront oasis in a traditionally industrial zone of the city. Opened in 2005, the park in its early days was an easy place to score a BBQ pit on the weekend, More >

Activities, Kids, Outdoors, Parks, Views, Waterfront

Chinese Junk Boat at Lincoln Neighborhood Center

Jan 27th

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Since 1969, the Junk Boat at Lincoln Square Recreation Center has been a delightful playground structure for neighborhood kids in Oakland’s Chinatown. oaktownman’s grandmother used to bring him there to play when he was little.

A junk boat was apparently another one of china’s innovations made famous by Italians. There was gunpowder, More >

Activities, Chinatown, Kids, Landmarks, Outdoors, Parks