Port Royal Park

This park is closed for 6 months, until September 2012. They’re redoing the soccer field (getting rid of the grass and putting in turf) and they’re also fixing the bathrooms and doing something with the benches and picnic table.
When it’s open, the playground is great for little kids. I take my 18-​month old there in the evenings and there’s usually a couple of other parents there. There’s a sandbox, a little slide, a tunnel, one of each kind of swing, benches, trees with shade (although some of these are getting replaced).

A playgroup that I belong to used to come here on Monday mornings — it’s a nice little park. There’s a big, grassy field that has big signs in it about how you should stay off the grass and a walk path around that.
The play area itself has a sandbox, one baby swing and one regular swing and some climbing stuff — mostly geared at the up-​to-​early-​elementary set. The bed for all of that is those ever-​present wood chips my son hates walking on.
There’s a nice, big shade tree with a bench and a picnic table under it next to the open-​court basket ball area.
Not too hot in the summer, either!
Why only three stars? It gets crowded quickly. There are very limited parking spaces and moms never seem to park that minivan in only one space. There’s a waterspout near the bathrooms that kids often turn the sandbox into a mud pit with. Speaking of te bathrooms, don’t; usually overflowed toilets.
Get there early, leave before 11 and avoid the bathroom and it’s a great little park.

This is one of our absolute favorite parks. Foster City has some great ones, and this is tops. The playground is nice for smaller children, there is water and sand, lots of grass, and a convenient bathroom. It is just off the path that goes around Foster City. It has a little parking lot and plenty of parking on the streets, benches near the playground, and picnic tables.