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Location | San Fernando Valley, California, U.S. |
Coordinates | 34°10′46″N118°28′44″W / 34.1795°N 118.4788°W |
Operated by | City of Los Angeles |
Woodley Park is a recreation area managed by the City of Los Angeles and located along Woodley Avenue between Victory and Burbank Boulevards in the Lake Balboa neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The area is located within the large Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area in the central San Fernando Valley.
The Tillman Water Reclamation Plant is adjacent to the park and surrounded by The Japanese Garden, a large Japanese garden open to the public.
Woodley Park has five cricket grounds in the Leo Magnus Cricket Complex, and draws many of the best cricket players in the Los Angeles area. [3]
On many weekends, Woodley Park hosts a number of games of cricket being played by expats of Britain and Commonwealth counties, and British influenced countries, including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the Caribbean. [4]
The 1995 and 2002 U.S. national cricket championships were held at the park. [3] [5]
Events in Woodley Park can/have included:
Woodley Park was a scene of major drug dealing in the mid-1980s, a drug "supermarket" that was one of the most notorious areas in the San Fernando Valley for open drug sales. Increased police patrols, undercover operations, and surveillance by civilian volunteers curtailed the scene. [9]
Approximately 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) of the park were set aside in the late 1980s as a dog park area. [14] The city did not allocate funds until the 1990s for the construction of a fence needed for safer use by dogs and people. [15]
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