Felicita Park — Attraction in Escondido

The good stuff: This park is lovely with beautiful trails and a nice playground. The Escondido Renaissance Faire and other fantastic events are held here. Most of the park rangers are kind and helpful.

The bad stuff: There are some serious accessibility and safety issues. The bathrooms have an accessible stall, but there is no safe way for a wheelchair to actually get to the restrooms. There is a steep grassy hill in the front of the restrooms and an area filled with roots and gopher holes behind the restrooms. There should be a safe, paved ramp leading to the restrooms that connects to a sidewalk leading to the parking lot and the playground. The extremely large chunks of loose mulch everywhere is another big safety issue. Even wheelchairs and scooters intended for outdoor use get stuck in the stuff. I have seen ambulatory people slip in this mulch, too. The compacted hard dirt in other areas of the park is safer. The mulch also disguises the gopher holes. Earlier this year, my wheelchair got caught in a hidden gopher hole here, and I got flung out of my chair and fractured a rib. Yes, many areas of the park will never be accessible to all, but please at least make sure that there is a safe route to...

I have been in Rancho Bernardo in for almost 10 years, but never got a chance to visit this gem. It is so rare to find a such a dense green park in San Diego. This place is full of events all the time, almost every weekend. The recent one I attended is Ship in the woods. Its 50-acre oak grove of Felicita County Park in Escondido, situated in North County San Diego. Admission is $3 and plenty of parking and restrooms. Especially they are CLEAN bathrooms very well maintained. One other standout features is . there is an alcohol friendly area. Also, there is a huge gazebo with electrical plugs for fun. This place is very family and kids friendly.

A SHIP IN THE WOODS its a inaugural music and art festival within the, merging world class talented artist with local San Diego artists. Also, there was bands playing very diverse groups including indie-rock, punk, rock, hip-hop and lot of experimental electronic music. This park has kids play area, which is not the best, but to have a swing in middle of nature is amazing. I will come...

Girlfriend literally lives across the street from one of the side access points, so I don't think my visits to this place are the same as your typical person. For instance I've been walking through it for years and only recently learned that they charge for parking if u drive in- well, screw that lol! But essentially this isn't your typical park; yea there's a playground for children and a small grass area to throw a stick w/ your dogs or whatever, but it's mostly made up of what are essentially low difficulty hiking trails and then of course the creek the flows through it. If you want something less forest-like and more like your "typical" neighborhood park mostly consisting of grass you should try Kit Carson park a couple miles away off of Via Rancho. Be sure to bring you discs and spend a few hours...