Chabot Park

I love this park. I learned how to play disk golf here! We live in such a beautiful area to have all this we all love in Lake Chabot. I can bring my dog, play disk golf hang out when it a beautiful day !!! People are real nice. Not so much trash hanging around. On occasion you have your rendezvouz but that’s what a park is about sometimes. Oh well lol. Love it enjoy it we have wonderful beautiful nature in our back yard. Peace be with you!

What a nice park! There’s a pretty long loop around the lake you can walk, or just take a shorter walk around. There are several of those history or nature signs that tell you a little about the area. It was really neat!

MANY ATTRACTIVE FEATURES INVITE REPEAT VISITS. The most unfortunate aspect of Chabot Park, is that it is located in San Leandro. San Leandro is a drive-​by city, devoid of cultural, historic, and architectural features. San Leandro is the land that time forgot, and aside from the automobile showrooms on Marina Blvd., most of San Leandro is just like it was in the mid 1950s to mid 1960s.
Anyway, the best features of Chabot Park include:
(1) Trailhead from Estudillo side of park, which leads you through the forest northwards along the golf course, then via a steeply descending trail that takes you eastwards to stone bridge, then an endless trail taking you in the southerly direction past the shooting range, and finally across a narrow asphalt road that leads you to a broad vista where you can see Castro Vallley, where the teail then plunges downwards again and leaves you at the edge of the marsh. Once at the marsh, you can cross over the marsh bridge, and then take the clockwise route towards the marina, and to a welll-​deserved pit stop at the café.
(2) The café is not what it used to be. Some of the menu items are now gourmet items, or anyway almost gourmet items. The hamburgers are festooned with a variety of fresh cut vegetables, for example. The ambiance at the café and in surrounding picnic areas is a bit like that at Johnson Beach located in Guerneville (crowded with kids and happy families).
(3). The marsh to the eastern most side of the lake is fascinating, because of the many geese, and occasional flocks of white pelicans, and tall grasses. I’ve not been to the marsh after dark, but I would imagine that it provides a symphony of frogs, just as the marsh next to PELICAN INN at Muir Beach contains a symphony of frogs at night. The most crowded trail in Chabot Park, is the trail leading to the marsh bridge (where most people stop and turn back) and the return trip from the marsh bridge back to the marina.
(4). For exercise, I also recommend the moderate-​length hike, which hug the entire circumference if the lake. This hike includes a couple of steep spots that enable a few minutes of aerobic excercise. You can begin this hike from either parking area (Estudillo area, or Castro Valley side parking area). it makes no difference. Even an eight year old can easily take the trail all the way around the lake.
To conclude, Chabot Park and its many trails provide a nice environment for hiking, where residential properties are fortunately not visible. For another nearby hiking spot, which offers a bit more in terms of natural scenic beauty, and more in terms of aerobics, I recommend the various trails in the eastern half of LAS TRAMPAS, located just off Bollinger Canyon Road in San Ramon.

Nice park and use of space. I play disc golf pretty regularly. This park has the best beginner disc golf course. This is a heavy use park for disc golf and bbqing.

This review is for the hiking trails, not for any of the park facilities. I am not a picnic or frisbee person. I find this spot as a great staging area for many of the Lake Chabot and surrounding trails. A favorite Saturday meeting point for friends who live in South Bay Area. Free parking is a major draw and that when you first start off there is a small uphill climb on cement, but once you are over the top you can continue to choose the main paved trail along the west side of the lake or make a left and get on the dirt trails– my favorites. I do enjoy hiking around the lake, but the main drag can get busy on the weekends, so come early.

Disc golf review
First time here
Been playing about a year
Tuesday Afternoon
Park is very foresty but small. It looks like they have done some recent improvements. Lots if fresh wood chips everywhere and clean bathroom.
9 holes — almost all less than 300′ and closer to 200′. Little bit of elevation change on some holes and lots of tree hazards.
Best quality signs I’ve seen out of the 4 courses I’ve been to. However, they do require a good look to figure out the layout.
1^st tee by the bridge as you come in. 3^rd tee by the swing sets and vehicle gate. The rest are pretty easy to find.
I give it 3 stars for complexity of course and 4 stars if you wrap up the whole location package. It was quiet when I went.

Decent place to hike, especially after having brunch in the area.
The West Shore trail was well covered, so it will never got too warm and was a nice hike to the Marina. You walk along the lake, but because of all of the trees, you barely get to see the water. The water was so still and would have made for nice pictures, but the trees got in the way. This is a great beginner hike as it had some hills and a few vista points. Along the trail, there are .5 mile markers painted into the pavement. If you don’t pay attention, you will barely even notice them. We didn’t need them, but there were out-​houses throughout the trail. Once you get to the Marina, there’s a grassy area for picnics, bbq grills, and real bathrooms.

I actually like this little small park. It’s right off the freeway and for a nice small intimate place which is also quiet and respectful you might want to check this place out. You don’t here all that loud boom boom music and it’s safe. It seems that every body there looks out for each other and always feel cool going there.

Very rigourous landscape if you go off-​trailing a lot (I do it for research purposes). It is also not as pretty as Redwood Park. It makes sense why there are not a lot of people that hike here. Beware: There are yellowjacket wasps here. Statistically it is unlikely you will step on one of their nests. But it happens. It happened to me. But I haven’t explored the whole park since it is pretty huge. This review is mainly referring to the access point on Redwood Road, the Anthony Chabot Staging area there.

Chabot Park is a solid choice in the way of grilling with a pack of passionate outdoorsy eaters, playing frisbee golf with pals, horseshoeing it up with ponies, smashing some sand volleyball or just kicking it in general. The pines crest overhead and the woody-​ness makes you feel like you’re ready for camping.
Although this park though isn’t huge, you’ll find an expansive array of activities (mentioned above). If you’re going for the frisbee golf, you might want to look elsewhere. This course is a mere 9 holes and you’ll often find yourself slinging into people-​ridden territory. But if a picnic is your fancy, the grills are huge. Think: 6 feet sorta huge. Just bring your own firemaking items and you’re ready.
Parking is super close to all the open space amenities and if I were 16 again, I’d probably come here for secret make out sessions.

My review is based on the Disc Golf course.
It’s short, not maintained, and the design is sub-​par. The course lacks any real flow and the signage could use an update. I recommend leaving your drivers at home as the longest hole is around 250′.
It’s often filled with thugs and the scent of marijuana hangs in the air.
If it wasn’t so close, I’d play it less often.

Nice small park. Sometimes a bit ghetto. FROLF COURSE!
I’m a bit biased and am scoring high for the simple fact that theres a disc golf course here. There aren’t a ton around, and this is only the second one i’ve been to. It’s a bit on the small side, only 9 holes, and the tees are kinda hard to find if you don’t know where to look already. The diagrams at the tees are sometimes horrible, and tell you to throw your disc around some trees when you can clearly see the basket straight ahead. Theres a slight water hazard with the creek running along a couple holes, and even a slightly uphill hole.
The course is great for practicing your short game with your putters and mid range discs.
The rest of the park has picnic areas with some tables, and a big field, and a parking lot that seems to be a convenient place to go for kids to smoke a little smokey.
The couple times ive been, it hasnt been very crowded. I’ll definitely be back for some frolf.

Instructions for a Mexican picnic:
1. Grills: check
2. Delicious homemade food/​bought from nearby
3. Overeating from all the food: check and check
4. Picnic benches: check
5. Restroom that doesn’t look like a war zone: check
6. free parking: check
7. Spending quality Saturday afternoon with friends: check, check, and check.
Chest bumps optional but highly entertaining. Yes, I’m looking at you two, Christopher and Ligaya!

Just 5 minutes from my office, this park is a slice of heavenly serenity. Yesterday I took an hour-​long, after-​work hike from this park to Lake Chabot — breathing in the sweet fragrance of pine and sage, and listening to birdsong and the gentle waves from the lake lapping at the shore.
Times like this make you feel like a millionaire. We are so blessed to live in California.

walking to the lake from here is a decent work out. that hill is no joke but the view of the lake and walking through the little forest makes it worth while!

Disc Golf @ Chabot Park– This place kinda blows. It is a short 9 hole course. You can play 18 in about 40 – 45 min. The holes are kinda marked. When I say kinda I mean some have the signs, some don’t. The ones that do are either broken or have graffiti on the sign. There always seems to be some creepers that show up and hang out in their cars. Anything above a beginner, need not apply.

I drove up here with some friends to check out the disc golf course. The holes are poorly marked & short. If you’re anywhere above beginner, skip this course.

Played 8 of nine disc golf holes here since the 4^th hole is unmarked. There aren’t any real «keys» on the course and the maps are hard to decipher. It seems to be a locals spot mainly with people hanging out and smoking. The course isn’t as sceninc as some of the others I’ve been to so far. But it was nice to check out.

We went to Chabot Park (not to be confused with Lake Chabot Regional Park), operated by the city of San Leandro, this weekend. We heard there was a frisbee golf course here, and there was! My first time playing. There’s nine «holes,» but they’re a little hard to decipher which one starts (or ends) where, etc. But the setting is great. Lots of tall trees and little hills that make you forget Interstate 580 is less than a half-​mile away.
The only thing that dampened this experience a bit were some of the strange characters here. People smoking weed: OK. Some random dude walking up to us to tell us to look up some religious Web site: not so cool. Some man just sitting in his van for whole time we were there: WTF. The freaks who show up here ruin the serene surroundings a bit, but I would still come back. This was on a Sunday morning/​afternoon, not Friday night or something.
Another warning, we missed the turn to come here. It’s a bit deceiving. When you’re heading down Estudillo and see a sign for Lake Chabot Park (with an arrow pointing to the right) … don’t go that way. Veer left at the fork in the road and you can’t miss Chabot Park.
If you’re not into frisbee golf, there’s picnic tables, a jungle gym and a slide that goes down a hill.