Community Corner
Park of the Week: Neil Armstrong School Park
It may not be a trip to the moon, but Neil Armstrong Park is out of this world.
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: Neil Armstrong School Park
Though named for the first man to truly do the moonwalk, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the fun potential of Neil Armstrong Elementary School Park. Founded in 1969, the school now serves over 500 students from kindergarten to fifth grade. From 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on school days the park is only open to these Neil Armstrong Eagles but luckily for the rest of us, during non-school hours the park is free for all to enjoy.
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Neil Armstrong has everything that park-going kids could want, except maybe a "no parents allowed" policy. Full-sized basketball courts and two baseball diamonds will appeal to jocks in the making, while those looking for schoolyard games can take advantage of tetherball and handball walls. The blacktop also includes painted outlines for hopscotch, foursquare and dodge ball.
Playgrounds and picnic tables round out the Neil Armstrong mix. The multi-featured play area has enough slides, monkey bars, watchtowers and drawbridges for hours of storming the castle. Detached from the main structure are swing sets, a jungle gym and even a rock-climbing wall.
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Parents of the accident-prone will appreciate that all the playground equipment is set atop a thick layer of tanbark. Set up camp for a snack break at one of several picnic tables surrounding the playground. Bathrooms are also conveniently located toward the park's middle, near the classrooms.
Neil Armstrong School Park- one small step for San Ramon, one giant leap for park-kind.
