Park of the Week: Ramona 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: Ramona Park

While the San Ramon parks system as a whole is remarkable for its uniformly good looks and terrific upkeep, Ramona Park in particular could give any of its sister spaces a run for their money. Tucked away in one of the Windemere developments, Ramona Park is the perfect spot to spend a quiet afternoon in beautiful surroundings.

Sprawling Kelly green lawns carpet most of the park's four acres and are only interrupted by a few pretty picnic spots. These areas are populated with clean tables, blooming flowers, new barbecues and white wooden arbors that provide a good amount of shade. Each spot is purposefully placed near another of the park's attractions for instance, the playgrounds.

Ramona Park's play areas are the perfect stomping ground for kids and their imaginations. Set on a bed of tanbark and made entirely of new wood, the two playgrounds make up a child-sized town complete with a San Ramona General Store, San Ramona School and even the San Ramona Express Train. This is all in addition to the standard playground fare of slides, monkey bars and swing sets.

While kids play house in mini San Ramon, adults can play their own game on the two Bocce ball courts or in the horseshoe area. Just be sure to bring your own game gear.

Water fountains and clean restrooms are available near the playground, which makes it easy to while away the hours on the gorgeous Ramona Park grounds. 

Have you visited Ramona 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.