[1][2] The neighborhood has several architecturally prominent 1920s and 1930s houses, surrounding the Sequoyah Country Club and golf course.
[1] It overlooks the Interstate 580 above the former Oak Knoll Naval Hospital,[1] and offers views of San Francisco.
[2] It is a smaller part of the Oak Knoll neighborhood that runs alongside the southeastern part of the Oakland hills.
Sequoyah Heights is one of East Oakland's safer and more well-to-do neighborhoods, and features a religious preschool.
Sequoyah Heights neighbors the Grass Valley neighborhood, home of the Oakland Zoo, the Seminary neighborhood and the site of the now closed Oak Knoll Naval Hospital.