Lakeside Park — Lake Merritt ⚠ Unverified Own this place?

Lakeside Park, on the north shore of Lake Merritt, appears in a few online cruising listings for Oakland. We could not confirm any current activity from an independent source, so don't plan a trip around it. It is a busy city park with joggers, families and regular police patrols. Cruising itself is legal in California, but sexual activity in a public place is a misdemeanour under Penal Code 647(a), and restroom stings have led to arrests in the past. If you are meeting someone, keep it to conversation and go somewhere private. Oakland's queer bars, and San Francisco's sex clubs one BART ride away, carry no legal risk.