LakeMerritt.org
  • Home
  • Gardens
  • Birds
  • 150th
  • Recreation
  • History
  • LM Links
  • Volunteer
  • LM Advocates
  • LM Breakfast Club
  • R. Nature Cntr
  • LM Institute
  • LM Weed Warriors
  • LM Projects
  • Park Info
  • Autumn Lights
  • OMB
  • Lakeside Art
  • Fairyland
  • Litter SOS
  • Homeless@LM
  • Videos
  • Contact & Photo Archive
Park  Info   
Picture7 creeks flow into Lake Merritt Watershed ©Oakland Public Works
Park Rules & Fees. Oakland Parks permit and rental phone contact is 510-238-3187. 

Oakland Parks reservation info
 (link)


​PROBLEMS? download the app OAK 311 to report littering, down trees/branches, unsafe conditions, park rule violations... ​

Lake Merritt Parkland
​Open 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.



Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

Picture
Picture
Lake Merritt / Lakeside Park is a designated wildlife refuge

California Wildlife Act       
Statues of California        
​
Eighteenth Session Chapter CCXXIV 
An Act to prevent the destruction of fish and game in, upon and around the waters of Lake Merritt or Peralta, in the County of Alameda.                   Approved March 18, 1870 

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 

Section 1
From and after the passage of this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person to take, catch, kill, capture, or in any manner destroy, any fish in the waters of Lake Merritt or Peralta, in the County of Alameda, except by the use of a hook and line; but it shall be unlawful to use any set lines, night lines or crawls in said lake.  
Section 2
And be it further enacted, that from and after the passage of this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person to take, kill or destroy, in any manner whatever, the grouse, any species of wild duck, crane, heron, swan, pelican, snip, or any wild animal or game, of any kind or species whatever, upon, in or around Lake Merritt or Peralta, in the County of Alameda, and within one hundred rods from high water mark upon the land around said lake.  
Section 3
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace of said county, or Police Judge of any city within said county, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars, and in default of payment of such fine, shall be imprisoned in the county jail of said county, or within a city prison within said county, not more than six months nor less than one month.  
Section 4
The fines collected under this Act shall be paid into the county treasury, in all cases prosecuted before a Justice of the Peace, and into the city treasury in all cases of prosecution before a Police Judge of any city within the county.  
Section 5
This Act shall take effect and be in full force on and after its passage.

Picture
no swimming in Lake Merritt
Picture
permit needed to boat on Lake Merritt
Picture
Lawn bowling greens restricted
Picture
DO NOT FEED THE WILDLIFE
  lakemerritt.org and photos ©2013-2023 John Kirkmire 
  • Home
  • Gardens
  • Birds
  • 150th
  • Recreation
  • History
  • LM Links
  • Volunteer
  • LM Advocates
  • LM Breakfast Club
  • R. Nature Cntr
  • LM Institute
  • LM Weed Warriors
  • LM Projects
  • Park Info
  • Autumn Lights
  • OMB
  • Lakeside Art
  • Fairyland
  • Litter SOS
  • Homeless@LM
  • Videos
  • Contact & Photo Archive