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Golden Gate Promenade Parent rating: Location: San Francisco, CA One of the nicest places in the city to walk, bike, skate, or scooter with children, this mostly dirt pathway hugs the shore between
Hayes Valley Playground Parent rating: Location: Hayes & Buchanan, San Francisco, CA This playground includes basketball courts, tennis courts, a recreation center, and a sand play area with climbing structures. Not scenic, but functional.
Aptos Playground Parent rating: Location: Aptos, San Francisco, CA Aptos Playground offers a tennis court, baseball diamond, and a blacktop playing area, hidden behind the middle school.
Kidpower Park Parent rating: Location: Hoff Street, between 16th and 17th Street, San Francisco, CA This park has distinct playground areas for both younger and older children. Each of these newly constructed structures help develop kids' gross motor skills.
Mad Maps Parent rating: Location: San Francisco, CA Families who are planning a vacation or just looking for the best scenic drive can check out MAD Maps. The local San Francisco company has a passion for finding the best backroads and adds in q...
Moscone Recreation Center Parent rating: Location: Chestnut and Laguna Streets, San Francisco, CA Definitely one of our favorite small parks, this flat four-block park contains four baseball diamonds, two groups of tennis courts, two basketball court areas, a gymnasium,...
Crocker Amazon Playground Parent rating: Location: Geneva Avenue, San Francisco, CA This large playground is situated right next to a low-income housing development. It has a nice set of top-of-the-line, brightly colored plastic play equipment, which is surrounded by a grassy field. ...
Sunnyside Playground Parent rating: Location: Mangels, San Francisco, CA Community spirit fills this steep hillside park. On the bulletin board, you'll find a park newsletter, a flyer advertising a neighborhood potluck picnic, and a reminder that park clean-up days happen ...
Mt. Tamalpais State Park Parent rating: Location: 801 Panoramic Highway, Mill Valley, CA Mt. Tam has the best views in Marin County. Period. From the top on a clear day, you can see San Francisco, the
Chinese Playground Parent rating: Location: Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA This multi-level park built into the side of a hill contains two sand play areas, three game and sports areas, and a big community recreation center and indoor gym. The Rec center runs an afterschool ...
Helen Wills Playground Parent rating: Location: Broadway and Larkin Streets, San Francisco, CA This playground includes tennis and basketball courts, a recreation center, and a small but protected sand play area with climbing structures.
Lake Merced Parent rating: Location: Harding Road off Skyline Blvd., San Francisco, CA Lake Merced is encircled by a paved 4 1/2-mile path popular with bikers, inline skaters, joggers, and walkers. The path can get crowded. But an even bigger problem for parents of wobbly-legged ...
Julius Kahn Park Parent rating: Location: West Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, CA "JK", as Julius Kahn Park is locally known, is situated along the southern border of the Presid...
Cayuga Playground Parent rating: Location: Naglee and Cayuga Avenue, San Francisco, CA This playground in the Outer Mission was once a beaten down, overgrown, weed-choked space. In 1986, it became the pet project of former-lawyer turned gardener, Demi Braceros, whose personal challenge ...
Larsen Park/Sava Pool Parent rating: Location: 2699 19th Avenue, San Francisco, CA This grassy, flat park makes for a nice stopover should you find yourself fuming in 19th Avenue traffic - a not uncommon occurrence. The park features a cute sand play area, tennis court, basketball c...

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