Oakland Hills
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.Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: human settlement in Oakland, California, United States of America
- Also known as: “Oakland Hills, Oakland, California”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Roberts Regional Recreation Area and Joaquin Miller Park.
Roberts Regional Recreation Area
Recreation area
Roberts Regional Recreation Area is an area adjacent to Redwood Regional Park located in Alameda County next to Oakland, CA and is part of the East Bay Regional Parks.
Joaquin Miller Park
Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Laurel and Piedmont Pines.
Laurel
Neighborhood
Photo: Daniel Olsen, CC BY 2.5.
The Laurel District is a diverse residential and commercial neighborhood in Oakland, California. encompassing the blocks northeast of Interstate 580 between High Street and 35th Avenue.
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.
Canyon
Village
Canyon, formerly known as Sequoya or Sequoia Canyon, Elkhorn, and The Redwoods, is an unincorporated community located near the border of Contra Costa and Alameda counties, in the U.S. state of California. Canyon is situated 2 miles northeast of Oakland Hills.
Oakland Hills
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Alameda, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.80505° or 37° 48′ 18″ northLongitude
-122.17922° or 122° 10′ 45″ westOpen location code
849VRR4C+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 10139029523OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q7074013
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“Oakland Hills” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Oakland Hills”
- Finnish: “Oakland Hills”
- French: “Oakland Hills”
- Galician: “Oakland Hills”
- German: “Oakland Hills”
- Swedish: “Oakland Hills”
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