Saratoga Avenue Kid’s Park

This park is awesome for kids three and under. Wish I had known before I drove all the way out here. My daughter just turned five and she was done in less than an hour. Great place if your child is smaller.

I like to call this «kiddie corner» because the area around Ebers Street and between Saratoga Avenue and Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach is irretrievably a neighborhood devoted to children and childcare.
The bastions of Ocean Beach Elementary and Sacred Heart Academy are right there. There is the Ocean Beach Park & Recreation Center-​where generations of children have played and hung out. The hippie haven of the Children’s Energy Center-​a daycare like no other is nearby and there are other Church-​related daycares close to it all.
A small, passive park attached to the other side of the Ocean Beach Park & Rec Center alley-​the Saratoga Kid’s Park is a gathering spot for lots of local kids who come up with their parents in strollers, trikes, bikes or simply on foot. On the weekends, the Park is overrun with them and the benches and picnic tables get quite a workout too.
The Jungle Gym and swings are only a few years old– the Park was recently refurbished and freshened up with new equipment. What’s nice about the Kiddie Playground there-​it doesn’t look ghetto or
like a hang-​out for punky teens. The Park & Rec must maintain it since there is no graffiti or trash. The only time it’s gross is when the perpetually-​flaky OB dog-​owners bathroom their dogs in the sand or lawn area.
Otherwise, a perfect spot to roll up with the kids and let them run around till they get hungry or tired-​or preferably both! Which could only mean blessed words to hear, which are: NAP TIME!