Alameda Park — Attraction in Santa Barbara

Alameda Park is one of the best kid friendly parks 805 has to offer!! This park features a massive wooden playhouse where kids can run and chase and play hide and seek. It has slides swings and is shaded by century old plum trees that were planted at the cities’s inception. This park is sectioned off in three blocks. Kids world is on one block, the Japanese/Botanical Garden across the street and the third block sits adjacent with a old world pagoda right smack in the middle for music and live events. There’s vendors and Knickknacks for sale and it’s just a great time if you find yourself smack in the middle of Santa Barbara and your looking for a place to let your kids run free. Treat...

Alameda Park is adjacent to the Alice Keck Park. The Keck covers one square block. The Alameda covers two square blocks, but the two parts of the Alameda Park are quite different from each other. The part of the Alameda Park that's adjacent to the Keck Park has picnic areas and a great 3 dimensional playground for young children.

The other square block of the Alameda Park has a fenced-in bandstand, a few benches, grass and trees. It's well maintained. Some of the trees look like they're older than the Park. This section of the park is frequented mainly by homeless or homeless adjacent folks. At least, that's the way it was the day...

Eh. We needed a place to get the kids out of the car to eat. So we stopped here because there were bathrooms. And while the playground is humongous, we didn't go on it because of covid. I think our kids would love it if it wasn't the middle of a pandemic. I was slightly uncomfortable letting the kids run around because there were a lot of homeless loitering or sleeping and I wasn't sure if the kids would accidentally run into them while running. It sounds like the park across the street with the duck pond is much nicer so we'll check that out next time. Don't plan to return to this one...