Sherwood Forest Park — Attraction in Burlington

The park is divided into two sides. On the west side, it includes two regulation-size soccer fields, one rugby field, three indoors soccer domes during the winter, and three tennis courts. On the east, it has four baseball diamonds.

Baseball diamond number 4 is located right across the railway tracks from a quarrying operation. When there's a northerly or westerly wind, as is often the case in the area, you'll be breathing that dust and particles. It will not improve your game. The constant loud, heavy machinery noise will also contribute to the poor experience. Avoid that diamond if breathing is an important part of your outdoors pastimes.

The facilities are modern and well-maintained - at least from the outside. When we were there, all washrooms were locked, forcing over 100 park visitors to line up for the one Porta Potti at the parking lot, or navigate through a maze of construction fences across another parking lot to a set of five more Porta Potties. And it's not as if the park was unattended; there were plenty of workers there, moseying around, none with the key to the holy ceramic grail, nor the inclination to contact the mythical keyholder.

Deserving special mention is the water cannon truck operator, who is there to water the lawns, but takes particular pleasure in spraying the visitors and their parked cars, especially those who are foolhardy enough leave their car windows open. It's refreshing to see someone there who goes beyond plain apathy and incompetence to wilful malice.

There are many great parks and baseball diamonds in Burlington and Oakville. This isn't...

Great park! It is never crowded, has plenty of benches, and a good play area. Lots of swings: there’s normal ones, a baby swing, and a few with the four leg-holes for toddlers. Cool area for kids to play, has a huge grassy area to run around. The grass doesn’t have any animal poop so you can walk around without worrying about the bottom of your shoes. That said, there was a bag full of dog poop right below one of the benches, even though the trash cans were only a few feet away. Overall, it is a great park and we will...

Used the baseball diamonds for a mini baseball tournament with my league recently. The diamonds are decent. The only reason why I'm eating so low was because the city never opened the washroom facilities. They knew a tournament was happening that day and knew what time as the diamonds were formally booked before the summer even began. But they never came to open the washrooms. Luckily there was a disgusting construction porta potty . One porta for approximately 50...