Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline — Attraction in Oakland

UPDATE 2022: The bathrooms are open again.

UPDATE 2021: The bathrooms are seriously boarded up. Was locking the door not sufficient?

2019: Beautiful. Nice place to walk your dog. This trail is a stretch of several shoreline trails that loop around the channel. You can see it on the ebparks website. Ample parking in several lots around the park. There are lots of picnic table areas with grills, many with water fountains. Many restrooms both single room and stalls. Viewing Dock that goes out into the marsh. Great area for wildlife photography. A sandbox for kids. Across the water there is a boat ramp if you want to take your boat out. There is also a stocked doggy waste bag station in the parking lot where the boat ramp is located. . Throughout the park there are dog waste bag stations stocked by the community. At the Doolittle Dr entrance there is also a community venue available for rental for weddings, birthdays etc. You can pick up a flyer with rates and other info outside in a box attached to the building. Im sure info is also available on the...

If I could give it 0 stars I would......we came to meet friends who happened to have classic muscles cars..apparently the rangers didnt want brown people in classic cars parking at MLK park and enjoying the day... I witnessed and filmed blatant profiling at the park gates. If you had a Honda or a Camry and pale skin you were more than welcome to the park but if you were Brown in a classic muscle car they made you turn around and leave. the Ranger or officer was insinuating because I was a little overweight I knew where the food truck was at not once but twice this man screamed at me on two different occasions about food that was supposed to be there!? Crowd of people everywhere and he comes up to me...then has the nerve to try to and intimidate me when he caught me filming him I love the park but not the profiling by the...

The Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline park is, in my opinion, a hidden gem for the City of Oakland.

Did you know that there is a multi-use path (bicycles and pedestrians) that winds for 3.7 miles along the shoreline with any interrupting roads? Even my home city of Richmond, with the longest completed sections of the San Francisco Bay Trail of ANY city around the bay can't claim that long an uninterrupted shoreline trail!

And it's empty!! Are you tired of the Bay Trail in Emeryville through Richmond? Yes, that section is lovely, but that section is also CROWDED.

I enthusiastically recommend this park if you like to walk or bike along the shore, with wildlife viewing, interpretive displays, and most of all - peace and uncrowded quiet - all within the...