Jade Street Park Community Center — Attraction in Capitola

Oh, my. You gotta love this place. Dog walkers. Bicyclists. Tight rope walkers stringing their lines between trees, low level for beginners. Frisbees. Picnics on the grass (please put your trash in the convenient bins). Benches. Occasional grazing egrets. Green grass. Snoozing or reading on a blanket or a bench - wonderful! The best soccer field from Santa Cruz to beyond Carmel. Softball diamond.Tennis courts. Basketball hoops. Children's play area. Wonderful sun, when it's sunny. Great place for star gazing. Best park I know south of Golden Gate Park, and it's level in the bargain, and a...

This is a very beautiful park but the young children’s program here should be shut down, one middle aged man in particular with brown hair always seems to be staring at the children when I’m there, it makes me very uncomfortable, I also seen the same man deny a homeless a place to charge their phone on a piece of the park that wasn’t even connected to the child’s program. Very sad to see people like this wriggled into these kinds of positions, especially when kids...

Great local park! Huge play area, restrooms near by, and plentiful parking. There's two play structures (one smaller, one bigger), swings, and a few ride on toys. Both structures are interesting and fun with unique features, like a climbing wall and a super steep slide. Wood chips instead of sand. Huge grassy areas and benches -- lots of room even when it's busy. It can get fairly hot in the middle of the park where there's no shade. One of our favorite parks...