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Location
100 Imperial Street
Size
5.539 acres
Phone
(530) 661-2000

Ralph Harris Park (a.k.a. Harris Park) is a park located between Ashley Avenue and Imperial Street in the west part of town, adjacent to the south sides of Greengate School and Cesar Chavez Community School. It features a baseball/softball diamond known as Ralph Harris Field, as well as a playground, a horseshoe pit, barbecues, sheltered picnic tables, and restrooms. It has a parking lot on Imperial Street.

The west edge of Harris Park is an access point to the West Bike Loop.

Harris Park is planted like a botanical garden, with 30 different species of trees. and not many more than 30 trees. The trees planted at the park include three invasive weed species: Horsetail Tree/Beach Sheoak (Casuarina equisetifolia), Purple-leaf Plum/Cherry Plum (Prunus cerasifera), and Flowering Pear/Callery Pear (Pyrus calleryana). However, two tree species native to Woodland are also planted at the park: Western Sycamore (Platanus racemosa) and Valley Oak (Quercus lobata). Additionally, Incense Cedar (Calocedrus decurrens) and Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) are planted at Harris Park and are native to other parts of California. Other non-native trees at Harris Park include Trident Maple (Acer buergerianum), Red Maple (Acer rubrum), Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum), River Birch (Betula nigra), Deodar Cedar (Cedrus deodara), Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis), Chinese Fringe Tree (Chionanthus retusus), Narrowleaf Ash (Fraxinus angustifolia ssp. oxycarpa 'Raywood'), Maidenhair Tree (Ginkgo biloba), Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos), Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica), Fruitless Mulberry (Morus alba), Black Tupelo/Sour Gum (Nyssa sylvatica), Chinese Pistache (Pistacia chinensis), London Plane (Platanus × hispanica), Holly Oak (Quercus ilex), Willow Oak (Quercus phellos), Cork Oak (Quercus suber), Weeping Willow (Salix babylonica), Japanese Pagoda Tree (Styphnolobium japonicum), Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum), American Elm (Ulmus americana), and Saw-leaf Zelkova (Zelkova serrata).