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Aquatic Park (Berkeley)

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course. The lagoon is used by the Berkeley Paddling and Rowing Club year round, and by the Berkeley Water Ski Club during the summer months. The lagoon is also used by the nonprofit organization, Waterside Workshops, for their youth boating and sailing, and boat rentals to the general public on
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weekends. Waterside Workshops also houses a community bikeshop at the intersection of Bolivar Drive and Bancroft Way. Historically, the Aquatic Park lagoon was also a practice site for the University of California
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under the freeway (one in line with Ashby Avenue, the other in line with Grayson Street). The east shoreline of the lagoon used to be the original shoreline of San Francisco Bay.
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Aquatic Park features picnic areas, "Dream Land for Kids"—a large children's playground, a pedestrian-bicycle path, and a
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by the creation of a causeway for the Eastshore Highway, during the construction of the approaches to the
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Cruise Judgment: Berkeley takes tentative steps to limit public sex in Aquatic Park
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Annual Reports of the City of Berkeley Recreation Department, 1933-1940
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created the park in the 1930s simultaneously with the nearby
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Aquatic Park cleans up, tackles brackish reputation
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park
Berkeley, California
Eastshore Freeway
Interstate 80
Works Progress Administration
Berkeley Yacht Harbor
lagoon
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge
culverts
disc golf
crew
"Waterside Workshops"
Aquatic Park official page
Aquatic Park cleans up, tackles brackish reputation
Aquatic Park advocate wins conservation award
Cruise Judgment: Berkeley takes tentative steps to limit public sex in Aquatic Park
37°51′25″N 122°17′56″W / 37.856871°N 122.298859°W / 37.856871; -122.298859
Categories
Lagoons of California
Parks in Berkeley, California
San Francisco Bay
Works Progress Administration in California
1930s establishments in California

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