Poinsettia Park — Attraction in Carlsbad

This is a beautiful park in a lovely neighborhood. I love taking my son here when I know I want to take a stroller jog at the park because there is a moderately hilly paved sidewalk around the perimeter of this 42-acre park that’s perfect for that. The grounds are so clean and well-maintained which is a huge plus in my book. The playground is usually very busy for all the social butterflies out there who love making new friends and the sports facilities are immaculate.

🚙Plenty of free parking in the parking lots. To get to the closest lot to the playground, turn right upon entering the lot and drive around to the back of the tennis courts 💰This park is free 🎠The play structure has a rubber ground surface. No swings. 🚽Restrooms 🧺Multiple picnic tables scattered around the park 🍔Charcoal grills 🪑Park benches scattered around the park 🖼Large lawn 🌳Some shady trees 🌟Clean grounds 🐶Proposed fenced-in dog park but construction hasn’t started yet 🛣Far from busy roads 🏘Tucked into a quiet beautiful neighborhood 🚲Paved paths perfect for small bikes, scooters, roller blades, and a stroller jog 🏈Football field ⚾️Baseball fields 🏀Basketball courts 🎾Tennis courts 🏏Pickle ball courts ⚽️Soccer...

Really nice park to walk around. It connects to the neighboring communities.

The parking is sort of odd, you have like 4 or 5 smallish parking lots.

If you want to baseball fields, turn left when you enter park and follow the road to the end (parking lot). If you want tennis courts, they are to the right immediately when you drive in. There are a lot of tennis courts, given most parks I go to have 2-4 courts total).

If you want the playground, turn right at entrance and follow to second parking lot on your left (right after tennis courts end). The playground is awesome for kids. Bright blues, oranges and greens; it has a seussical vibe with awesome sensory toys. My only complaint of the playground is at one side there are two sets of stairs...feels like they should have made this a ramp with the same rubbery texture so maybe kids could roll and play on it...because my toddler just wants to play on the stairs.

There are also two soccer fields. One to the right of the playground. Another below that one, with another small parking lot.

Overall, a really cool park with a little...

New play area features include many opportunities for climbing, new slide types, regular slides, personal spinning chairs and a group rope spinner, an unusual swing for 1 (maybe 2) people, hidden swing chairs under the slides with no long chains, many little hills/mounds. Kids are likely to want to play king of the hill. The bathrooms are right next to the structures. I remember seeing 2 benches for parents in the play structure. There are no natural substances in the fenced play area, plastic, rubber mats, and turf. There is plenty of grass outside of the fenced (it's not fully enclosed with gates or anything like that) area to run and play. A number of picnic tables and benches all around. It looks like there is sidewalk that runs around the whole place too. The place also includes facilities for basketball, tennis, soccer,...