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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 >
Union Point Park on the Estuary
Mar 24th
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 >
Chinese Junk Boat at Lincoln Neighborhood Center
Jan 27th
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 >
Arrowhead Marsh at the Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline Park
Oct 13th
Sitting in between the Colosseum and the Airport, the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline is a stretch of parkland that surrounds what used to be known as the San Leandro Bay. This scenic park has some interesting features both manmade and natural.
The Arrowhead Marsh is a short walk from the More >
“Dumb Friends” Bench in Alameda, NOT Attributed to Jim Morrison
Oct 1st
Hanging out in Alameda over the years, oaktownman kept hearing the story of the inscription on this bench that sits at the end of Jackson Park, which reads “In Memory of my Dumb Friends”. oaktownman kept hearing that this bench was donated to the city by Jim Morrison. The legendary More >
Morcom Rose Garden
Sep 28th
Most people seem to not realize that Oakland has an exquisite rose garden, just a block from Grand Avenue very close to the Piedmont border. The place is kept by some passionate rosekeepers coordinated by Friends of the Morcom Rose Garden and there’s even a redwood forest there.
Morcom Rose Garden
700 Jean More >
McElroy Fountain at Oakland’s Lakeside Park
Sep 24th
Fountain installed in 1911 with a series of mythological reliefs allegedly depicting the life of Oakland city official John E. McElroy. The reliefs were sculpted by famed East Bay artist Douglas Tilden.
Mexicali Rose — an Oaktown Classic
Third Thursday Art Walk on Piedmont Avenue
Inaugural Spirit Airlines Flight at Oakland International Airport
Breads of India
Nathan & Co. on Piedmont
Luka's Taproom & Lounge
Skyline Gate at Redwood Regional Park
The Bellevue-Staten — Lake Merritt's Art Deco Gem
Union Point Park on the Estuary
Scottish Rite Temple
Oakland Museum's White Elephant Sale
Half Price Books in Berkeley
Tao Yuen Pastry — Chinatown's Most Popular Bakery
