The Berkeley Rose Garden is in the form of a terraced amphitheater located in a small canyon and has views of the city and bay of San Francisco and the Golden Gate.

The south side is a grove of coast redwoods, bay laurel and coastal live oak trees.

Codornices includes a large lawn, picnic area, children's play equipment and a long concrete slide.

In this section, from 1912 to 1928, before the Rose Garden was established, a 275-foot-long (84-meter) wooden streetcar and road trestle spanned Codornices Creek along Euclid.

[3] Much of the fill originated from the excavation of a small hill on the UC Berkeley campus as part of the construction of Giannini Hall.