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Southeast Greenway

Municipal parks in CaliforniaParks in Sonoma County, CaliforniaSanta Rosa, CaliforniaUrban public parks

The Southeast Greenway is an urban park on the eastern edge of Santa Rosa, California. Beginning in the 1950s, land was purchased by the California Department of Transportation to build a freeway alignment for California State Route 12 through eastern Santa Rosa. As local awareness of climate change shifted priorities toward active transportation alternatives, the city purchased the land to build a 2-mile (3.2 km) pedestrian and bicycle path from the eastern end of the route 12 freeway to Spring Lake Regional Park. Land adjacent to this active transportation corridor will be used for water supply and utility infrastructure with space for community gardens, dog parks, disc golf, sports courts, fields, and playgrounds.

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Southeast Greenway
Hoen Avenue, Santa Rosa

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N 38.441 ° E -122.67 °
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Hoen Avenue 4257
95405 Santa Rosa
California, United States
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Doyle Community Park
Doyle Community Park

Doyle Community Park is an urban park on the eastern edge of downtown Santa Rosa, California. The western end of the park is the confluence of Matanzas Creek and Spring Creek. Spring Creek forms the northern park boundary and Matanzas Creek forms the southern park boundary. The eastern end of the park is a fenced and lighted baseball field formerly used by the minor league Santa Rosa Pirates. The remainder of the park includes the Doyle Park Clubhouse, restrooms, playground slides and swings, horseshoe pits, separate fenced areas for unleashed large and small dogs, and picnic tables with barbecue grills including five sites available for reservation.A paved trail follows the shaded riparian woodland of mature oaks, maples, and California bay laurel trees along Spring Creek and Matanzas Creek from the Doyle Park Clubhouse on Hoen Avenue to the footbridge over Matanzas Creek across Vallejo Street from Brook Hill School. Prior to European settlement, what is now Doyle Park was part of a larger riparian wetland within which these creeks changed course when dead trees fell into their channels and accumulated coarse woody debris diverted flood runoff out of those channels to form new channels. Europeans deepened the present creek channels about 4 m (13 ft) through Quaternary alluvium of the Santa Rosa Plain to minimize urban flooding. The park and paved trail is at the level of the original wetland, but there are a few access points into the lower channels which now confine the creeks.Western gray squirrels are plentiful in the park, and a murder of crows often gather nearby. Birdwatchers have observed sparrows, finches, towhees, jays, woodpeckers, robins, bluebirds, mockingbirds, chickadees, phoebes, kinglets, warblers, nuthatches, and titmice.