The Oakland Hills location provides panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay area.

The park features include miles of hiking, biking, and horseback riding trails, an off-leash dog area, a children's playground, an amphitheater, and picnic tables.

Flora in the park include pinkflower currant, evergreen huckleberry, creambush, and gooseberry.

For many years the Oakland Recreation Department put on popular productions of musical comedies there, three per summer, using mostly amateur performers.

[2] The Cascade is the amphitheater's waterfall feature built in 1941 and dedicated to California writers, still with flowing water.