San Mateo Central Park — Attraction in San Carlos

The main park for San Mateo. It has a rose garden with gazebo, large playground and choo choo train ride for the little ones (weekends only), tennis courts, the almost 50 year old Japanese Tea Garden (free, designed by landscape architect, Nagao Sakurai, of the Imperial Palace of Tokyo), picnic tables with BBQ grills, large open grassy areas for volleyball, frisbee, and to picnic and listen to the annual outdoor Thursday night Summer music concert series.

There is a Recreation Center in the middle of the park which is also the Senior Center during the weekdays which the seniors in the area come to exercise, socialize with one another and eat lunch. In the mornings, you will see groups of seniors exercising and groups of mothers pushing baby carriages.

No matter where you turn, you will see a happy dog with its owner. Very dog friendly (must wear leash). Poop bag dispensers are throughout the park. There is a large baseball diamond with good size stadium bench seating and a bocci ball court in front of the baseball diamond.

Many families use the park during the weekends. During the warmer months lots of kid parties are being hosted in the picnic tables area and the kids are playing in the playground or riding the train.

Central Park is beautifully maintained by the city. There is something blooming throughout the year.

There is metered 1 story parking garage underneath the tennis courts and metered...

Cute environment they offered food and warm drinks and a place to sit if you don't want to skate they have lights across the ice for night time skating and they offer protective gear for those who need it and they have the push walls for people who are skating for the first time. There's an underground parking garage with a lot of parking spots they do have metered spots so bring money or a credit card. They accept Apple pay at the food and beverage stands I would say the main drawback is the actual skates themselves they are incredibly uncomfortable pretty painful most people were complaining about how much they hurt so if you have your own skates obviously bring them. I would also recommend wearing thick socks that might help with the pain. I apologize for the lack of punctuation I am doing this...

It's a really nice location with a small Japanese garden that has limited hours. There's a koi pond, paths, it's lovely. There's also some great kids play spaces including a kid train weekends (sadly the beloved operator conductor recently passed away). It's also a fairly large park. You can be so far away from the kids section that you won't know it's there- not hear it not see it. There are benches periodically, but not frequently enough for limited ability walkers - so bring your accessibility devices like rollators for the pathways. There's other things there like tennis courts and a stadium that I'm less...