Grant Park — Attraction in Santa Cruz

Apparently they resurfaced the basketball court, but there are even less play structures, and even fewer wood chips to walk on under the play structures... SO the slides are dangerously high when you get to the bottom of them, if you are a small child. This park HAD two of the very coolest swings I ever saw - those big round metal saucer type swings! But now, there is only one left. The rocket ship shaped structure is now bent and falling over, and another structure is missing altogether! I'm not sure what improvements they're planning here, but hopefully it's more, because it's still falling apart. The playground is falling apart like crazy. We still had fun though, we met another kid and it was fun enough, but it would have been MORE fun if there had been TWO swings STILL, and if there had been ANOTHER play structure in the missing spot! But it is what it is, it's Grant Street Park. It was very CLEAN for that park, to...

A perfectly normal neighborhood park with several different options for how to spend your time. There is a small baseball field that serves as open space, a small fenced in dog park on the grass, a basketball court, a pretty large and creative climbing-oriented play structure, and a bunch of tables in the shade of a bunch of redwood trees. There's nothing super special about the park that will make you want to travel from afar to visit it, but it's a good resource for the neighborhood it's in. You can enter from either side, but parking is limited to street parking so you might...

Sunny, beautiful grass and picnic tables. Really really cool park, actually two, one is fenced in for younger kids. Dog park, clean bathrooms, basketball, baseball field. The missing star is due to the occasional individuals that can often be found napping in the shade. These people are generally polite and harmless; however my child always notices and it rises questions, not always a bad thing, it makes for a humbling and educational conversation. If this type of thing makes you uncomfortable you may just want to drive by and check it out before commiting an...