Codornices Park

This park gets busy. And why shouldn't it? It's great! Nestled in the Berkeley Hills overlooking the cities and the bay below, amongst the huge trees, you'll see all walks of life enjoying this Berkeley staple. It's made of a lot of different parts - basketball courts, a baseball field, a grassy field across from some great play structures and a huge, long concrete slide. It's epic and built into the mossy hill. When your kids are old enough, they will just do the slide. FYI. Over the bridge, you walk up a hill to some bbq areas, which you can reserve online for parties. The shaded one is so beautiful with this beautiful, huge, old outdoor fireplace. Bbq area #4 has more sun, fyi to those planning. The tunnel leads you to bathrooms, tennis courts and the rose garden. What a great place for a great day. Something for everyone.

Hesitant to leave this review because I want to keep this place to myself (and the other hundreds of people who regularly frequent it). I love this park. The tunnel takes you to the beautiful Rose Garden across the street. There are two reservable picnic areas available for use ($75 for every 4/hr time slot). There's a playground for the kids and plenty of lawn area for picnics or hanging out. There's also a narrow concrete slide for more adventurous kids, though they'll need a piece of cardboard to slide down! I haven't come across any dog poo but the lawn area seems like it'd be perfect for that too, so please clean up after any pets!During COVID times, the Rose Garden restrooms are open and there are a few port-a-potties on site for use. Also lots of cute trails in the back to turn this into a light nature walk. We're so lucky to have parks like these that make you forget about the hustle and bustle of the bay area.

Cool park. Not my favorite though. The concrete slide is unique and a great feature. I think the structures are a little advanced for my 2, 4, and 6 year olds. They are capable of climbing them but I'm pretty nervous they'll fall and they're pretty high up. For the record I am a fairly easy going non-helicopter parent, so for me to be anxious about this park is strange. We'll come back when the kids are a little older.Rose gardens across the street are very nice.

I love the ambiance, trails, creek, ball field and playgrounds here! I live in the neighborhood so feel really lucky to have such a big park with huge trees and forest areas next to play areas for adults and kids and dogs.

I give it four not five because it is hard to reserve the picnic site. First you have to register an account and then pay for the administrative fee. It takes some time if you are the first time there because of the design of the website. So here is half point down.Meanwhile, the picnic site does not allow personal grill device, so the public one is the only choice. However, the grill is so dirty... I cannot even think if I directly put raw meat on it. Thus, we brought our own grid and lifted it up with four small stones. So another half point down.I strongly recommend a 4:30-8:30 shift in summer since the sunset is late and the sunshine won't burn anyone. With some dry pine woods on the grounds, it is easy to set up the fire with some charcoal.Last but it least, remember to bring water to put out the fire!!!I guess I will return to this site for another BBQ picnic~

Cool park and sweet slide. There are play structures, fields and hiking trails. The rose garden is also nearby. The main attraction is a cement slide that's probably 50 ft long and 30ft high. You grab a piece of cardboard walk to the top, smash you head on a low tree and then come down as fast as you can. It was a great time and the kids loved it too! Everyone seemed to love it.

Located right across the street from the Berkeley Rose Garden, which gets all the much deserved hype, Codornices Park has a lot to offer.The kids love the cement slide here, just remember to bring your cardboard!!The tunnel that connects this park to the Berkeley Rose Garden is very cool!!There's also a playground, a basketball court, picnic areas and if you keep going into the park, trails.Parking along the street can get a little hectic depending on the day, that's probably the only downside here.

This is such a beautiful little park!We love stopping by this park after walking through the Rose Garden. Because they're limiting the Botanical Garden visits to those who are members or Cal affiliates and those who make a reservation, we've been heading to this park and the garden across the street instead.I love the little creek near the picnic benches in the forest with the cute stone bridge. It's really lovely to walk over and around as the area never seems to be overly crowded.We've returned a few times to enjoy the trees and the short hike so we'll definitely keep coming back!

We went here for a memorial and stayed in the stadium of trees. It was beautiful. We ate a catered lunch on the other side of a stream and that was good too. The bathroom was clean. It's a cute little park for hanging, I don't know about the hiking. I went to the bathroom twice and it was fine for a public park. My husband was the door the first time and the second time, I discovered chain that people put across the entryway when they are using the john.We came again and sat a a cute little table for a picnic. It was great! We ate unmolested by bugs and such. We walked through the field to get there which was fine. But had to go to the bathroom and found an ice cream cone of toilet paper on top of the toilet seat. And it was the only bathroom, and I had to go. One bathroom for the whole park. Not good! Not good at all.I'll come again, but won't eat or drink anything beforehand.

Great slide and playgrounds. My son is 7 and had a blast on the slides. Locals are super friendly as well. They showed us the secret trail to the waterfall and we had an adventure to see it. Another beautiful gem in NorCal