Nice park! Nice enough restrooms... Which I'd just like to take a second to applaud San Jose, CA for keeping the restrooms in parks working and functional!! Bcuz unlike Santa Cruz, where they have closed most of the park restrooms, or AT LEAST taken the soap and many times, sinks - out!! Altogether!! To detour the homeless from using them to bathe... Which caused a terrible Hepatitis A outbreak (which is caused from not washing hands and then preparing/eating food - so, in short, eating feces!!) - people can still wash there hands after using the restroom!! What a concept!! I thought that was what you were ALWAYS suppose to do!? I guess Santa Cruz, CA doesn't think that's very important...
In any case, thank you for being decent human beings and not removing the sinks or soap from this park, or another one I visited recently!! Its much...
Read moreI took my granddaughter out to lunch and afterwards she wanted to go to a playground. This was the closest one so we traveled there. It's the old frontier village grounds and I grew up in the area and have some history there so it was pretty nostalgic for me. It's nice, I loved the big trees but otherwise pretty barren and was so closed down with heavy fencing it almost felt like a prison. They had a great playground but it was so hot that my granddaughter couldn't do much because most of the equipment was made out of metal and it was hot from the sun. Overall I don't know why they did it this way as there is only a small area that is grass. And by the way with all that playground equipment there were no monkey bars which is...
Read moreRemember Frontier Village, The old West theme park that used to be in San Jose? This is the remnants of it. You can still look all those various areas and ride locations that you may have visited as a kid. Now it's a fantastic park that is very wooded with lots of great paved trails and a fantastic Western themed playground. If you're a tennis buff you will also enjoy the four courts that are here. there is a large sand pit that is suitable for great volleyball games as well as many places to picnic and barbecue. Plenty of parking and bicycle and pet friendly. Afterwards walk over to the historical Hayes Mansion for some great...
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