Hillcrest Community Park — Attraction in Concord

11/11/14

We have driven by this park many times but have never stopped here to check it out. I was surprised to see how nice it was when we were here for an event last weekend.

I had read about the all-abilities playground: "Matteo's Dream" being constructed and opening, but didn't know where it was. It is here, in Concord! The project was to create a play area so that kids who can't walk, see, or hear, can safely play alongside children who can. This playground at Hillcrest Park is beautiful and really awesome. Padded grounds and ramps and lots of places to play. It's a really cool playground and may be a great opportunity to talk to your child about being kind to others, and playing with children who may be a little different.

The rest of the park is okay too. There are a couple of restrooms but they are pretty basic: single-person, no mirrors (probably due to vandalism, given the area), but they were clean when we were there. There are also grassy fields for baseball or soccer and picnic tables.

We've seen large parties and groups gather here, and around Mother's Day there is always someone set up selling roses and...

I was walking around with my boyfriend and his friends at the park at night just to show them the area since my boyfriend and I just moved here and on the field going toward the frisbee golf we noticed a green laser light pointing at us. Being raised around guns I was immediately spooked because the laser light kept pointing at us and following us so we had to hurry and go all the way around to a barn looking house that led to the road, and avoid the parking lot which was where the light was coming from inside a car. Im not sure if any other people experienced this but if so then you know now. I just moved here in June this year which thankfully got me away from Oakland where there’s lots of shootings going on at night and people getting jumped plus being homeless for awhile so I’m new to the area it’s definitely a lot better but that incident definitely brought up some bad experiences. Be careful if you go at night and make sure...

This is an ALL-abilities playground & is wonderful for all ages, including caregivers interacting with the children. Ramps throughout the play structure for full accessibility, swings (including adaptive & parent-child tandem), tire swing, lots of area to run around on a fully covered impact-reducing ground. There is a smaller child play town & two water mist features, along with chimes & xylophone to play on (bring your own mallets, though). There are several picnic tables & a grassy picnic area for larger groups. It has public restrooms & is right by a large grassy ball field. Decent amount of parking & located...