80 Bolivar Drive @ the foot of Bancroft Way in Southwest Berkeley
Click here for a virtual tour of The Aquatic Park (by day).
THINGS TO DO (in the evening):
- walk the trails
- watch for animals: egrets, feral cats, fish
- stand above the freeway on the Peoples’ Bridge
- play frisbee golf
- canoe or canoodle (in a parked car or secluded grove)
- flat out cruise for sex
OPEN UNTIL: “10pm, unless otherwise posted”
PARKING: lots
THE EBI REVIEW: I’ve always enjoyed this park. It has its share of unsavory behavior (like any public park, really), but I find frisbee golfers more irritating than men cruising for sex. While it’s quite easy to get beaned in the face by a hard plastic frisbee disc, it’s even easier to avoid eye contact if you don’t want anything else hard in your face. This is a good public park for this neighborhood: It’s got creative activities for kids in the form of two architecturally interesting playgrounds, bike lanes that cross the Peoples’ Bridge to the Berkeley Marina, picnic areas, walking trails, a boathouse, elements of the President’s Physical Fitness Test, and little groves you can disappear into to read a book, write, or watch the kayakers. I guess also, ostensibly, and possibly more oftenly, the secluded spots are used for clandestine sex. (more…)
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