Berkeley Rose Garden
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The Berkeley Rose Garden, constructed by the Works Project Administration, opened to the public in 1937. It occupies most of the block lying between Eunice and Bayview Place along Euclid Avenue in Berkeley, California. It lies in a residential area of the Berkeley Hills between the Cragmont and La Loma Park neighborhoods. The terraced garden is in the form of an amphitheater nested in a small canyon and offers stunning views of the city of San Francisco and the Golden Gate.
The park is bisected by Codornices Creek. The north side of the Rose Garden includes a set of tennis courts. The south side is a grove of coast redwoods, bay trees and coastal live oak.
Across Euclid Avenue is Codornices Park, a city park which includes a large lawn, picnic area, children's play equipment and a long concrete slide. Here, two forks of Codornices Creek have their confluence, right along the line of the Hayward Fault. Here too was once the clubhouse of the Hillside Club, a neighborhood improvement and social club.
A pedestrian tunnel runs under Euclid, connecting the Rose Garden with Codornices Park. In this section, before either the park or the Rose Garden were established, a wooden streetcar and road trestle spanned Codornices Creek here.
[edit] External links
- City of Berkeley's web page about the garden.
- Article by Gray Brechin that includes a description of the Rose Garden.
- Friends of the Rose Garden, a volunteer group that helps take care of the garden.
