Glen Park — Attraction in Encinitas

Great place to relax....and you never know when you'll be walking thru on a sunny 4th of July (w/Bo) and there will be a super long, double wide, slip n slide, WITH BUBBLES, hose-powered by a house half a block away! Or 6 grown women, ice-blocking at 2am on your walk home from work when you cut thru the park headed to Joe's (w/Bo)....so you go back & join them cause you've never done it before!!!! Then there's always the first time you play horseshoes, a year later, on another July 4th, and it hapoens to be with the friendliest bunch of homeless guys & gals you'll ever meet (who then spent at least an hour picking up every piece of trash littered in the park, they could find to throw away)! After dark, walk across the street (w/Bo & Joe) and watch the Del Mar Fair fireworks with the neighbors and accept the "Fred Flintstone size steak" that they hand you on a fork they brought from home! Or on a Saturday stroll into the park, maybe stop and take a whack at the "larger than life waitress" pinata, filled with adult prizes (not sure of the occasion, or even if there was one)! Join in the neighborhood craziness & enjoy the ride! These things only happen once in a...

Today we celebrated a friend's birthday 🎂 there, that park had it all. Play ground with regular swings and a infant swing too. There was also a basketball court, along with a place to play volleyball in the sand course. Everything was good but one thing I didn't like is I saw a homeless guy in his camping tent ⛺ set up. I also saw two backpacks and some shoes on a bench there....

Holy cow. For a park bathroom this was literally great. It was a little grimy and dark but wow was it clean all things considered. And they even had the good dilettante paper! Also the mirror was surprisingly clean for a place that's known to have a lot of homeless vagrants. Good job to the homeless vagrants for doing their part in keeping the place clean 👍 for the...