Joaquin Miller Park
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", and lived in the house preserved as the Joaquin Miller House.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: Public park in Oakland, California
- Also known as: “The Hights”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Joaquin Miller House and Chabot Space and Science Center.
Joaquin Miller House
Historic building
Photo: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Joaquin Miller House, also known as The Abbey, is a historic house in Joaquin Miller Park, a public park in the Oakland Hills area of Oakland, California, United States.
Chabot Space and Science Center
Museum
Photo: Daniel Olsen, CC BY 2.5.
Chabot Space and Science Center, located in Oakland, California, is a center for learning in Earth and space science, which features interactive exhibits, planetariums, a large screen theater, hands-on activities, and three powerful telescopes.
Oakland California Temple
Church
Photo: Hurling7, Public domain.
The Oakland California Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Oakland, California. Notable for its five-spire design influenced by Asian architecture, the temple stands on a hill with panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piedmont Pines and Oakland Hills.
Piedmont Pines
Neighborhood
Piedmont Pines is an affluent residential neighborhood in the hills of Oakland, California. It is generally bounded by Highway 13 to the west, Shepherd Canyon Rd. to the north, Skyline Blvd. to the east, and Joaquin Miller Park to the south.
Oakland Hills
Suburb
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oakland Hills is an informal term used to indicate the city neighborhoods lying within the eastern portion of Oakland, California. The northernmost neighborhoods were devastated by the Oakland firestorm of 1991.
Oakmore
Neighborhood
Oakmore is a neighborhood in Oakland, California located east of Park Boulevard and north of Dimond Park. This neighborhood was built in the 1920s and 1930s for people who worked in San Francisco and took the Key Route to work.
Joaquin Miller Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Alameda, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.81337° or 37° 48′ 48″ northLongitude
-122.18816° or 122° 11′ 17″ westElevation
1,391 feet (424 metres)Open location code
849VRR76+8POpenStreetMap ID
way 27187346OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Indonesian—“Joaquin Miller Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Joaquin Miller Park”
- Indonesian: “Taman Joaquin Miller”
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