Alameda Park

I came to this park today with my five grandchildren and had a wonderful time. The wooden extremely large playground was incredible and the kids had a blast running around for over an hour. I don’t live nearby but if I did I would be coming to this park all the time!

Luv this park! Brought my daughter when she a kid and now taking my granddaughter.

Amazing wooden castle playground. Something interesting for kids of all ages and their parents. There’s whales and sharks sculptures that the kids can climb on. There’s also kids’ fingerprints towers the kids love to compare themselves with. there’s central benches for the parents to see all the kids. There’s a giant tree the kids love to climb all over and play around.
very clean and well shaded. With nearby picnic table and recently renovated bathroom, it’s the place that families love.

When ever I’m in Santa Barbara we have to stop here with the kids. Best park I have ever been too and I’m 33.

Awesome! Our family highly enjoyed this park. Beautiful and huge wooden play structure in excellent condition. Son got quite a good workout navigating it. Nice shade and pretty clean overall. Don’t miss the pond at Alice Keck Park across the street — it’s full of turtles!

When my daughter was young whenever we’d come home to SB she could hardly wait to go to Kids World. It’s a great place to play because kids can spend hours of intense activity crawling, climbing, swinging, hiding, running, sliding, in a safe, contained area, close to the parents, but still independent. That’s what this space was intended for — and I remember this was a major issue when it was built back in the 1990s. It’s the antidote for overly safe, sterile playgrounds where parents constantly breathe down their kids’ necks and don’t let them have any fun.

Awesome park with tons of fun stuff for kids to play with. The main play area is really big so as the parent plan on moving around to keep an eye on them.

I love this park! It spans three city blocks, with one section having a huge and awesome wooden castle-​play-​structure and one section having beautiful botanical gardens, gazebos and a fantastic turtle pond. So, in reality it’s not that cool that the pond is full (overflowing practically) with turtles since it’s due to people dumping them there, but if you just want a quiet place to relax and enjoy some nature, this is a great park. I’ve been here on several occasions to use it as a photography background and last weekend I stopped by just to chill out and kill some time. I saw lots of turtles, ducks, gulls, and coots. The botanical gardens are beautiful with plants still in bloom.
The day I was here taking engagement photos for some friends we saw no fewer than six other photo shoots going on for families, couples, and modeling. It’s really such a lovely spot.
I can’t recommend it enough. If you have an hour to kill and aren’t sure where to go, come here. It’s pretty easy to find free parking spaces on the streets and you’ll have a really nice time.

Just bought property in the area. My daughter is living in one of the units. Her unut overlooks the park. Amazing mature trees and winding walkways A kids castle made of all natural wood with so many bridges, mazes slides. Surrounded by historical buildings and churches.

I am traveling with a dog to an event at this park. Are leashed dogs permitted?
Sue k

A very elaborate play area, that I’m sure the slightly older than our son crowd must LOVE! Our son enjoyed climbing around everywhere, following all the older kids that were around. It was a bit tough trying to keep him safe, as some of the structures were a bit tighter for me to get through, but overall a great spot to hang out for a picnic.

If this park was deeper in SoCal, there would probably be graffiti everywhere. Thankfully, it’s not, so there was no graffiti on my visit. Sure there may be a couple homeless folk roaming the outskirts of the park, but the fortress playground is good times for kids and the young at heart! Played hide and go seek with the kids for hours. I only wish I lived a little closer and could visit here more often. Stay young at heart my friends…

I brought my three year old and 17 month old here on a recent trip to visit family. The big draw here is the massive wood playground structure that resembles a castle. My kids loved climbing around and never seemed to be bored. There were dozens of kids there the two times we visited. There are picnic areas that can be reserved for parties. We were able to find parking on the street right in front, but that was during the week.

Most amazing big wood play structure I’ve seen. Not just another playground in this age of cookie-​cutter bright colored plastic ones. No wonder they call it «Kid’s World.»
Highlights:
— Play structure: huge maze of a castle with multiple levels to explore. Incredibly impressive and fun. Seems to me like it could fill half of a football field or more.
— Variety: several slides, balance beams, tires, driving wheels, and monkey bars
— Age levels: a smaller version for the little ones off to the side
— Sea creature statues: a whale and a shark to play on
— Picnic area: good for lunching, taking a break for a snack, or chilling as a parent
— Steps away from the garden across the road with a pond and turtles, ducks, pretty flowers, and a gazebo
— Shaded area: not too hot
Midlights:
— Tanbark: I’m undecided about this filler but reminds me of my childhood
Lowlights:
— Need to be extra vigilant: lots of kids running around and bunches of crevices so easy to lose sight of your kid
Hard to find a solid old school diamond like this, so and I’ll come back as often as I can.

Sometimes I imagine it from many years ago.
This place was so overgrown with trees hanging to the ground, palm and bamboo forests. It was a jungle. Sometimes we’d hop the fence at the El Mirasol property but we were scared of being caught… it was a fun place to play.
It’s great now too as I sit here feeling the warm sun shining through the tall trees and hearing the sounds of happy kids.
It is a wonderful park.

Is it weird that I drive all the way from LA to come to this park? It’s amazing! There are no shortage of fun activities for kids and adults alike!

Accidentally found this park while vacationing in Santa Barbara.
My 3 yo loved it the minute he saw it. He ran into the park so fast and quickly disappeared. There are so many turns in this huge park, it’s easy to lose your child in just a few seconds. However, it is a lot of fun from a child’s perspective. My son was having so much fun running up and down, pretending to be pirate in a big pirate ship one minute, then pretended he was in an elevator and quickly went downstairs, he even quickly made friends with other kids and got them to follow him around. This is not his normal behavior. He was just having such a blast and it really peaked his imagination.
My 1 yo also loved the park, there wasn’t as many things for him to do, but he just liked walking around and watching all the other kids. He enjoyed sitting on the shark.

A gorgeous day in SB and an awesome park to spend it in. Google search helped us find this place on our halfway point to LA.
Easy parking for a Sunday … Free… What??? And an amazing play structure. These days it doesn’t qualify as a park without the requisite play structure, so it passed the kiddo’s standards for a fun playground.
Ladies selling fresh ripe mangos on a stick and homemade potato chips and shave ice… Yes, real shave ice, not that snow cone cr-​p, from a cart. Tried them all, and food permit absence aside, our tummies are not full of crummies and we are ok.
Amazing picnic area adjacent, clean bathrooms nearby and overall, a wonderful experience… Worth a visit for any family!

What a cool park! It’s huge with lots of grass and a large wooden jungle gym where kids go wild. There are also large marine animals to climb on and take fun pictures.
Lots of trees and tables if you want to bring the family for a nice picnic or host a party.
Street parking surrounding the park too if you come from afar!

Kids growing up around here are so lucky. This is playground in this park is SWEET! It’s a huge area with so many things to climb on and under just perfect. I couldn’t resit it and I had to play on it, swinging from the hanging rings like a monkey. =p
On the bottom level of the structure there are crawl spaces built in, it’s a great place to get away from the hot mid-​day sun and look at all the «art» kids drew inside. Fun stuff it’s covered like the Sistine Chapel, I don’t know how many adults get that vantage point but check it out yo.
Then as if that park wasn’t cool enough there is a whale and shark chilling, great picture taking spot (I hugged the whale). The rest of the grassy park is shaded by trees, the coolest ones are the large Moreton Bay Fig trees that have twisted roots and stretching branches begging to be climbed on. Those trees just evoke happy memories of me in elementary school playing «tree tag». =)
Santa Barbara has it’s fair share of vagrants, but in this park most seemed friendly and was there to enjoy a comfortable nap. Since I was here for the Summer Solstice celebration, there was vendors, food tents and a music. I bought some food and had a little picnic listening to music and watched barefooted hippies dance along with a couple of hooping girls. What a colorful place. =)