When I started apartment hunting last month, I was curious what sort of parks in Mountain View I might end up near. My old apartment was close to Rengstorff Park (map), which is large and has lots of facilities from tennis courts to children’s play structures. So I searched for "park, Mountain View, CA" on Google Maps. A couple showed up, but I was pretty sure there were more, so I checked the Mountain View website, and found a long-list — the city is full of parks! I figured there might be someone else out there interested in the parks, so I started adding entries to Google Maps and created a custom map of all the ones I’d marked:
So far it has 25 parks. Today, Graham and I started exploring them on bike. We visited five parks:
- Sierra Vista
- Thaddeus
- Whisman
- San Veron
- Stevenson
There was respectable variety of park layouts and play structures just in the few we visited, though none of the playgrounds were particularly awesome in my opinion. I wanted more and bigger swings, and maybe a merry-go-round or teeter-totter. So I’m keeping my eyes open for those on the next Mountain View park tour.
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