Editing Ferndale, California (section)

==Parks and recreation==
===City Hall Park===
City Hall Park was deeded to the city by the Village Club in 1918.<ref name="FE, 1918">{{cite news |title = Village Club deeds park to city  | publisher =Ferndale Enterprise  | date =February 8, 1918}}</ref> The triangular park was filled with material graded from the southern end of Main Street, and a Clubhouse (now City Hall) was finished in 1931.<ref name="FE, 1931">{{cite news  |title = City Hall Park| publisher =Ferndale Enterprise  | date =May 29, 1931}}</ref> The building was styled to look like an English cottage.<ref name="FE, 1931" /> The fireplace was sent from England as a gift from the daughter of a resident.<ref name="FE, 1931" /> Its granite comes from a Welsh quarry and was chiseled in San Francisco.<ref name="FE, 1931" /> The Gazebo, which contains Ferndale's California Historical Landmark Plaque, is at the north end of City Hall Park. In 2011 new benches and trees were added to the park.

===Firemen's Park===
Firemen's Park at the southernmost end of town between Francis and Berding Streets is bordered on three sides by houses and to the south by restricted watershed property. It has ball fields, a playground, picnic area and three bocce courts.<ref name="FernFac">{{cite web    | title =City of Ferndale Facilities    | publisher =City of Ferndale    | url =http://ci.ferndale.ca.us/facilities.html    | access-date =December 10, 2011 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120120170809/http://ci.ferndale.ca.us/facilities.html    | archive-date =January 20, 2012 | url-status =dead}}</ref> The Community Center in Fireman's Park was built in 1922. It includes a large dance and meeting pavilion with attached kitchen.<ref name="FE,1922">{{cite news  | title =Parks in Ferndale!  | publisher =Ferndale Enterprise  | date =August 11, 1922 }}</ref> The Ferndale Children's Center has occupied part of the pavilion since 1991.<ref name="FE-SE">{{cite news |date=June 2009 |title=2009–2010 Souvenir Edition |pages=4 |publisher=Ferndale Enterprise}}</ref>

===Hadley Gardens===
Located at 655 Main Street, next to the Shaw House, the creekside gardens include a replica dollhouse, native flora, a waterfall, and a "hobbit house".<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023–2024 |title=Hadley Gardens await all ages... |language=en-us |edition=Souvenir |pages=1, 31 |work=Ferndale Enterprise |publisher=Cage Publishing, Incorporated |location=Ferndale, California |editor-last=Titus |editor-first=Caroline}}</ref>

===Russ Park===
Russ Park, located three blocks east of Main Street on Bluff Street, is open sunrise to sunset.<ref name="FernFac" /> Several hiking trails cross the mature forest in the {{convert|105|acre|adj=on}} park donated to the city by Zipporah Patrick Russ on October 31, 1920.<ref name="FernFac" /> The deed includes "That the property be used forever as a park and recreation grounds … as a refuge and breeding place for birds."<ref name="FernFac" /> Dominant trees include [[Sitka spruce]] and [[Douglas fir]] with a few redwoods, blue gum eucalyptus, and other tree species.<ref name="Redwoods" /> More than 100 kinds of birds are known from the park,<ref name="FortCC">{{cite web | title =Ferndale's Russ Park   | work = Explore the Eel River Valley  | publisher =Fortuna Chamber of Commerce  | url =http://sunnyfortuna.com/explore/victorian-ferndale.htm  | access-date =  December 10, 2011}}</ref> which is the southern extent of the Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest.<ref name="Kauffmann">{{cite web  | last =Kauffmann  | first =Michael  | title =Russ Park  | work =Conifer County  | year =2011  | url =http://www.conifercountry.com/trails/Conifer_Country/russ/russ-web.pdf  | access-date =December 10, 2011 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20131005191345/http://www.conifercountry.com/trails/Conifer_Country/russ/russ-web.pdf  | archive-date =October 5, 2013  | url-status =usurped}}</ref>