Project Swing Park — Attraction in Saint Augustine

This playground is unaccessable unless you pay $10 to park. There are open fields & private parking all around this park. We saw 2 children playing there in the week we were in town. What a waste!!!!!!! Looked like a fun playground if you can afford the parking lot $10 a day minimum. Really? We parked on the street a block & a half away near the tennis courts, but the only way into the park was to walk around 3 more blocks in front of the $10 parking garage. No chance with a 2 & 4 year old in 100 deg weather. Very Very Very disapointing. With all that open space around to boot. I hope I missed something & someone explains an ease way in without paying $10 for 1-2 hours of play at a...

Well, we were excited to go today, until we got there. The only parking anywhere remotely near the park was $15 flat fee, even if you were only going for 20-30 minutes, which is about the max a toddler is going to last at a park in this heat. Thoroughly disappointed that a "free" public park essentially cost $15 to visit. Just on principle we decided not to give the VIC parking garage our business - the tourism board knew exactly what they were doing placing a "free" public park with ZERO parking across from expensive county/tourism board managed (I'm assuming)...

This park is completely accessible. Their are several ways into the park and you can park on the south side of the park or west side of the tennis courts for free. We have the Park Now card which you pay a deposit into a pre-pay account. This makes the parking garage is $3.00 all day and parking meters $0.50 an hour when you use it. Great for kids and picnics, plus you can walk through downtown after playing with the kids. Be sure, if you have little ones to bring a stroller, little ones get tired easily, especially walking where they...