Roscommon Road Corner Reserve is a small neighbourhood park at 504 Roscommon Road in Clendon Park, Manukau, with a 4.0 Google rating.
Corner reserves are the quiet workhorses of Auckland's suburbs: modest pockets of mown grass and planting that give a neighbourhood room to breathe between houses and roads. They suit the informal jobs bigger parks can't do — a short walk with the dog, ten quiet minutes on a seat, a kickabout on the way home. Because they're typically small, unfenced and close to the road, dog walkers and parents of small children tend to size up the layout first. For playgrounds, sports fields and toilets, most people head to a larger park nearby and value these small reserves as the handy green gap in between.
For Clendon Park locals, this reserve plays exactly that role — a small patch of green on the daily route along Roscommon Road.