Canyonside Community Park

From this parking lot and community center, the north trail of penasquitos canyon hiking trail can be accessed. It seems longer than the one off mercy road and black mountain. One thing I can admit is I can now see how big this preserve is.
On this hiking trail is the ranch house where they have a really neat garden, 2 healthy goats and some cool looking chickens. The hiking trail here on the north trial is a little more rocky, but fun. Robby and I enjoyed this hike to the waterfall a lot. It brings you to the other side of the waterfall, so it’s a different view and experience. We even found wild celery!
North trail to the waterfall is 3 miles one way. We didn’t see any deer this time, but saw a rabbit, and a bunch of squarrels. Fun day!

Just discovered this park when I took a trail that connects from Ridgewood Park in Rancho Penasquitos. Great distance to walk the dog to get her very tired but not exhausted. Love that not very many people traverse this area during the late afternoon. Very quiet and peaceful and did I mention Safe!

Had my daughter’s b-​day gymnastics event here. They were very nice. They teachers were great. My only gripe was how dirty the event rooms were. We got it to look nice. But plan on having to clean up or as I told my wife… «we gotta spend time putting lipstick on this pig…» Oh well, it was very «cost effective» (aka cheap). So, I guess I can’t complain.

Man, I didn’t even know this park existed! Now i’m glad I know about it. Went here to do a photoshoot, great photoshoot locations all around the park. Towards the back more are lots of shrubbery n such, did a Indian theme shoot. All the pictures came out awesome. But will probably come back here and bring the family and our dogs juz to have like a family fun day type of thing.

Love this park…
It’s less than 5 minutes away from my house.
It has it all including softball and basketball leagues.
It has tennis courts and tee-​ball for the young ones.
If you are looking for batting practice, half the time the fields are free to use until it gets dark.

Over the last 8 years, I’ve spent a good amount of my time going to Canyonside for baseball, basketball, football, softball and soccer.
This park is located on Black Mountain, just to the North of Mercy Road and just east of the Preserve.
The park itself has many baseball/​softball fields (I believe 9 in total), excluding the t-​ball fields which there are two. The park also includes a rec. center for basketball and gymnastics. There is a small playground for the kids but it is very small. This park is more for the athletics rather than entertaining the little ones.
The fields here are just ok and the reason for the 4 star is really the location. It is very conveniently located for me. The majority of the maintenance to the fields is done by the families who are involved in sports in this area as the city does very little in that department.
The nights can get quite cool here as the wind tends to kick up through the canyon so you should always have a jacket.