• Picnic areas •
Archery club and archer training grounds, some who have become world and Olympic champions in the late 1990s and early 2000s
Cricket Woodley Park has five
cricket grounds in the
Leo Magnus Cricket Complex, and draws many of the best cricket players in the Los Angeles area. On many weekends, Woodley Park hosts a number of games of cricket being played by
expats of Britain and
Commonwealth counties, and British influenced countries, including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the Caribbean. The 1995 and 2002
U.S. national cricket championships were held at the park.
Events Events in Woodley Park can/have included: •
Classic car shows. •
Bagpiping troupe weekly practice, in the late 1980s. •
Boy Scout Jamboree for the western
Los Angeles County Boy Scout Council in 1999 • In approximately the mid 1970s Bonnie Raitt did free anti nuclear power plant concerts. ;Crime Woodley Park was a scene of major drug dealing in the mid-1980s, a drug "supermarket" that was one of the most notorious areas in the
San Fernando Valley for open drug sales. Increased police patrols, undercover operations, and surveillance by civilian volunteers curtailed the scene. • A stabbing death occurred in 1986 • the murder of a homeless man kicked to death by two dozen men after an argument in 1988, and shootings at two public events in mid-1992, including at a reggae festival and, fatally, at an
African-American college Greek organization event. ==Dog park==