Owned by the Port of Oakland, Middle Harbor Shoreline Park offers visitors a rare opportunity to view port operations - busy cranes, trucks and giant container ships - while enjoying park activities.

Nestled along the southwestern-most corner of Oakland is Middle Harbor Shoreline Park, a crescent-shaped greenbelt and public beach stretched beneath Port of Oakland cranes. The remote park is Megan ...

The strand -- a wide arc of brown sand big enough for wading, boat launching, dog walking and volleyball -- is the heart of one of the region's newest urban retreats, Middle Harbor Shoreline Park.

The Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in West Oakland may no longer be a viable location to host large outdoor gatherings after the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) sent a cease-and ...

Former councilmember Nancy Nadel stands next to the plaque of her late husband, Chappell Hayes, at the Middle Harbor Shoreline Park’s Chappell Hayes Observation Tower in Oakland, Calif., ...

Middle Harbor Shoreline Park sits in a grassy corner of the Port of Oakland. To the west, blurry silhouettes of San Francisco’s skyline hang in the distance, glimmering once in a while behind ...

Bowlines, sheet bends and clove hitches will all be on the line from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday as naturalist Tara Reinertson goes nautical at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland. Tara will teach ...