Best Neighborhoods for Amenities in Woodland, CA

Downtown Woodland is the old commercial center of Woodland, laid out along Main Street around a 1905 Carnegie library and a plaza that hosts the weekly farmers market. The blocks are compact enough to cross on foot in a few minutes, and most of the city's evenings out happen inside them. ... See Full Page

Historic Core sits beside downtown Woodland and holds the older residential streets, a handful of small parks and a couple of museums that people drive across town to see. It reads as the lived-in side of the old center, with Main Street's end of the grid running through it. ... See Full Page

Food comes first in East Woodland, the stretch of Woodland where bakeries, taquerias and a seafood house line the roads and a dog park sits close to the edge of town. It is a working, lived-in part of the city, and its restaurants lean toward Mexican cooking. ... See Full Page

Spring Lake is a newer part of Woodland where subdivisions meet open farmland, with a pedestrian path, a pair of parks and a nature preserve at its edge. Jack Slaven Park, at 1705 Miekle Avenue, anchors the neighborhood, and a one-mile footpath called Spring Lake Alley connects it to Farmers Central Road. ... See Full Page

West Woodland is the part of Woodland with the most parks on its map, with Ferns Park, Woodside Park, Dave Douglass Park, Schneider Park, Wayne Cline Park, Harris Park, Jeff Roddy Memorial Park and Holding Pond Park all inside its boundary. Most are small neighborhood greens, so an evening loop can take in three or four of them without a car. ... See Full Page

Beamer Park is the Woodland neighborhood that holds Velocity Island Park, a lakefront water park, along with the namesake park and Christiansen Park. It sits beside downtown and mixes recreation with a handful of restaurants and small markets. ... See Full Page

Gibson Square, in Woodland, takes its identity from the Gibson House at 512 Gibson Road, an old county mansion that now doubles as the Yolo County Historical Museum and a YoloArts venue. Residential blocks gather around the grounds, set apart from the busier commercial streets that border them. ... See Full Page

Armfield is a residential pocket of Woodland that runs along East Street, where the older grid near downtown starts to give way to roadside shopping. Very few places sit inside its boundary, so daily life here borrows from the neighborhoods on either side. ... See Full Page

Gibson Ranch is mostly a commercial district in Woodland, home to the shopping centers and restaurants that serve the whole city and much of Yolo County. It is not a neighborhood in the usual sense, and anyone looking for a quiet residential block will find few here. ... See Full Page