Local Park Groups

Find or List Your Own Neighborhood Park Group

There are many neighborhood groups that create, build, and help maintain parks in Oakland. Working with an existing group to enhance your own park is an excellent way to strengthen the support network arounda park.

Looking to raise money for capital improvements? Check out the Resource Links page on this website.

Need some extra hands to help with your park project? Or, are you a community group looking for a project?

Click here to contact Public Works Coordinator Cookie Robles-Wong.

Neighborhood Park Organizations

For a list of park groups in Oakland click here.

Friends of Maxwell Park

Read all about Maxwell Park's new mural!

WORKSHOPS & VOLUNTEER WORK PARTIES

Morcom Rose Garden, 700 Jean Street

Help keep Morcom Rose Garden Blooming.
Join in the fun: workshops, mulching, weeding, pruning.
Volunteer work party days on the first Wednesday and the second Saturday of every month.
Bring gloves and hand tools.
For more information call Gardener Tora Rocha at 510/597-5039 or visit http://www.friendsofoaklandrose.org/

MANDELA PARKWAY: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for CLEANUPS

What: Monthly Cleanup by Friends of Mandela Parkway, picking up trash and meeting neighbors

When: First Saturday of each month, 10 am

Where: The big oak tree on Mandela Parkway at 9th Street

Call 510/839-4737 for information.

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Maxwell Park

Kids get lessons in native plants.