Bath Street Reserve is a small neighbourhood park at 2 Bath St in Devonport, on Auckland's North Shore, with a 4.7 rating on Google.
Neighbourhood reserves like this are the quiet workhorses of a suburb: a patch of mown grass and shade trees where the pace drops a notch. The test of a good one is simple — shade, somewhere to sit, and enough open ground for a picnic rug or a kick-about. Devonport pulls most of its foot traffic towards the ferry terminal, the beaches and the summits of Mount Victoria and North Head, so locals rate the small street-side reserves as breathing space between the big attractions: a coffee stop, a shady bench, room for children to run.
On a quiet residential street a short walk from Devonport's village and waterfront, Bath Street Reserve is exactly the kind of small, unhurried green corner the suburb does well.