All 66 outdoor basketball courts in Oakland.

De Fremery Park sits on Adeline Street in West Oakland, and the community has called it Lil' Bobby Hutton Park since 1968, after the sixteen-year-old Black Panther Party treasurer killed by Oakland police a few blocks away. The Panthers held rallies here, and the park has been the neighbourhood's civic centre ever since.

The basketball is inseparable from that. McClymonds High School is a short walk away, the school that produced Bill Russell, Frank Robinson, and Paul Silas, and West Oakland's players have run these courts across every generation since.

658 Google reviews at a 4.4 average. The recreation centre on site covers the indoor option. Come on a summer evening and you are playing in the middle of the most consequential few blocks in Northern California's Black history.

Mosswood Park sits where Broadway meets MacArthur, the hinge between North Oakland and downtown, and its courts have carried the city's hardest summer runs for decades. Google lists the Mosswood basketball court separately from the park, which tells you how much traffic it takes.

The park draws from every direction: Temescal, Pill Hill, downtown, and the bus lines that converge on Broadway. The result is the most genuinely mixed run in Oakland, and a standard that climbs through the evening.

881 reviews at a 4.1 average. The park has been through a long renovation cycle, so check which side of the grounds is open before you commit to a trip.

Bushrod Park on 59th Street anchors North Oakland's basketball with 482 reviews at a 4.4 average, and the recreation centre on the same grounds gives it an indoor backup. The park sits close enough to the Berkeley line that the run mixes Oakland regulars with students, and the standard stays high without tipping into unfriendly.

Dimond Park is the highest-rated large park in our Oakland data, 1,226 reviews at a 4.5 average, tucked into the canyon where Sausal Creek runs down from the hills. The basketball shares the grounds with a pool and playground, so weekends skew family-first and the evening games belong to the neighbourhood.

San Antonio Park on East 19th Street serves one of Oakland's densest and most diverse districts, 752 reviews at a 4.1 average, with a dedicated basketball court listing and a recreation centre on site. The surrounding neighbourhood is heavily Latino and Southeast Asian, and the court reflects it: constant use, quick games, and a genuine cross-section of the city.

Verdese Carter Park on Sunnyside Street sits in deep East Oakland, named for the community leader who fought for the neighbourhood's park space. 236 reviews at a 4.2 average. The court serves an area that gets little attention from the rest of the city and holds a reliable local run through the warm months.

Lincoln Square Park sits at the edge of Oakland Chinatown with 353 reviews at a 4.4 average. The court is small and constantly busy, serving one of the densest residential pockets in the city. Games skew quick and half-court, and the surrounding Chinatown blocks make it the best-fed basketball trip in Oakland.

Montclair Park brings basketball to the Oakland hills with 367 reviews at a 4.4 average, and the recreation centre next door covers winter. The run here is the quietest on this list, which is the appeal: a hillside neighbourhood court where you can usually get a hoop to yourself on a weekday.