Park of the Week: Central Park

One of San Ramon's biggest prides and joys is the city's amazing park system. Our city has a whopping 53 parks spread throughout our vast community, ranging from small neighborhood playgrounds to multi-acre, multi-feature parks.

Each week we'll be highlighting one of our city parks, showing you photos, listing park features, and telling you what's special about them. We have so many parks that it will take Patch more than a year to profile each of them. So if you have a special park you'd like featured next, let us know!

Park of the Week: Central Park

Central Park is the largest of San Ramon's multi-feature parks, offering 35 acres for recreation including a skateboard park, tennis courts, soccer and baseball fields, a lit sports basketball court, a new playground, and acres of open parkland filled with trees, lawn, picnic benches, and fountains.

Central Park also has a new playground adjacent to the Community Center. Kids can slide down the colorful slides, climb on the rock-climbing wall, and dig in the small sand patch for play fossils remains.

The annual San Ramon Art & Wind Festival takes place at Central Park each Memorial Day weekend, drawing huge crowds to kite-flying demonstrations, live entertainment, kids' zone, and art and craft booths.

In the summer, Central Park hosts a free concert series. Families bring blankets and picnic dinners to the park's amphitheater and enjoy bands ranging from jazzy blues to music of the 80s.

Central Park is also home to the San Ramon Community Center, which hosts conferences, classes, and the Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery.

Have you visited Central Park? What's your favorite thing to do there? What do you wish the park offered that it doesn't? Share your views with other Patch readers by adding your comment in the box below.