Raynor Park

This sunnyvale park is nice, although I wish there were most trees around the playground area as it can get pretty hot when temperatures are in the 90’s. The sun can be scorching without any shade. There’s a nice lawn for kids to run around and a circular area to play in.
Smaller children’s playground has a fence around it which helps to keep the little ones in.

Love this park. I usually hang out at Ortega Park but this one is equally clean and enjoyable to visit. Open spaces, BBQ areas and kids can play on the safe and maintained equipment.
There’s a huge field where various sports are often played.
Nice shaded areas, especially appreciated on hot, sunny days during the spring and summer.

We love this park. The playground is well shaded and never too crowded. The park has the right mix of play structures for various ages of children and people are always friendly and courteous.

Great park for kids of all ages. Lots of unique play structures, sun and shades. And large grass area for ball games.

My kids love this park! I am so happy to have it in the neighbourhood!

Clean, beautiful and quite. Lots of space and parking.

Raynor continues to be a favourite contendor as far as Sunnyvale parks go.
My son is always excited when we turn onto Quail and will shout «PAHK PAHK!» (PARK!PARK!).
Why this park rocks:
1. CLEANLINESS. the groundskeeper (s) are super nice and are always doing a fantastic job and maintaining the beauty of this park.
2. DINOSAURS. what kid doesn’t love dinosaurs!!! the kid just discovered the dinosaur tracks the other day (we’ve been coming to this park for at least 2 years now.)
3. OPTIONS. a) theres a small gated area for toddlers with height appropriate play structures. b) there’s also a larger play area for older kids (and for toddlers like mine, who now are in the transistion stage where they prefer the «big pahk.» c) not forgetting, the large open, circular cement area where my son likes to ride his strider, play tball and run in circles. have also witnessed groups of children bring tether balls to attach to available poles, play 4 square, jump rope and «galaxy»… ALL these kids playing all these games in the same area (cement area), that should give you an estimate on how big that is. e) huge grassy area to play whatever your heart desires
4. SEATING/​PICNIC AREAS. the availability of shade available even in the scorching mid-​day sun is plentiful. while the play areas remain unshaded, there is such an amazing amount of trees providing cool shade (ex: a lot of grassy area near the playground is shaded, a good part of the «outter ring» (outter ring of cement area) remains shaded in the afternoon. I have seen at least 2 different schools with 2 big sets/​groups of children each share the shade and still have loads of shade/​picnic area left for other play groups and other families.
5. NICE CROWD: no matter what time of day I go, whether its morning, noon or later afternoon — the parents/​grandparents/​guardians/​caretakers and the children are super sweet. of all the parks we visit, this one has the friendliest crowd.
Sunnyvale has awesome parks and (even though it doesn’t have a water feature like Ortega or Las Pulmas) it remains our favourite.

This is a fun park, with large open grassy areas, tree-​lined walk paths and even a large circular cement pit for gladiator-​style battles between children.
Not too far away from the Lawrence Expressway exit, but far enough to feel like a true neighborhood park. Lots of kids during the early afternoon in the playground and baseball fields, and clean rest restrooms.
There could be more shade during the summer months, but then again, playing in the open air means playing in the open air.

Good park, humongous grass area for a killer game of Capture The Flag and anything along those lines.
SOMEONE FIX THE GODDAMN SWING THOUGH!

Big, open park with plenty of shady and interesting play structures for the kids. There’s sand, and baby slides for the little tykes and big swirly slides and swings for the big kids. There’s really something for everyone. My kids love to bring their trikes here to ride around in the big circular cement area that always seems to be high in demand.
This park is so wonderful, in fact, that it’s always packed. On weekends there’s soccer games and weekdays there are always old grandparents bringing their grandkids here before naptime. This park is popular, no doubt, but I still love it!

Do not bother attempting to reserve this park UNLESS you live in Sunnyvale. We wanted kid safe/​friendly while still having a decent set up for adults. since not all of us have kids. They should really list on the website that IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A SUNYVALE RESIDENCE YOU CAN NOT RESERVE ANYTHING FOR A PARTY. Its a damn shame! We had a party of 50+ trying to make a reservation but were DENIED because I don’t live in Sunnyvale. Good to know Sunnyvale has enough $ to turn down a big group for a weekend day that had no reservations. The woman handling the reservation over the phone told me a) they could not give me the applications online, via fax OR snail mail b) I had to come down to some office in sunnyvale and GET all the paper work myself and c) I actually could NOT rent anything because I don’t live in Sunnyvale. WOW! Way to go Sunnyvale.

Thumbs up for this park having an ADA swing for those of us with disabled children. Thumbs down for the parents that lack the sense to pull their non-​disabled children away from it for just 10 minutes to allow a disabled child to use it. If you have a disabled child don’t bother going when there is a crowd.

Park is nice. I did not see the whole park so I can’t comment on that. However, it had a nice toddler area. My 19 month old son enjoyed it. It is fenced in which is nice. You still have to follow a little toddler around it but one of the nicer toddler play areas I’ve come across. Does have a nice area for older kids.

Raynor Park is off of Lawrence Expressway and Benton Street in Sunnyvale. Great neighborhood park, and it’s near an elementary school. The children’s play area is great. There’s a separate toddler area from the ‘big kids’ play area. Both are gated, which is a plus when you have a little one who likes to run around.
There were few children when we went. More adults than children it seemed. The grandparents of the children like to get together there with the kids as a place to talk and socialize. The toddler area has a large sand area, a low eleveation play structure, with a small climbing wall and short slides. There are two swings.
The big kids play area has higher elevation play structure and it’s much bigger, too. There are swings with sand, but the big wow factor for the kids are the two large stone cllimbing sculptures of a dinosaur and pterodactyl. There is also a «boulder» for climbers too. Great park. And there are bathrooms! Another plus. There are benches to sit and watch. I would go back here again!

This is a great park! We have been going here for years. The remodel has done wonders. New playground, equipment and etc. Separate play area for the really little ones. Nice space for running and playing games.

Definitely a great place for kids.
A lot of shade nearby under the big trees.
I have never seen it very crowded… a good point too.

Just a very sweet neighborhood park, Raynor Park has many things to offer a wide variety of people. Sent here because of the urge to letterbox, I found a nice park with several distinct advantages. There is a shaded picnic area. There are two sets of play structures, including one that is for younger children and completely fenced. A swing that allows for larger children with mobility issues is in the bigger play structure. The play structure for larger children is semi-​fenced with seating that allows supervision without micromanaging.
There is are several large ceramic-​type dinosaurs and painted dinos and their tracks appear throughout the park. I found this to be charming and if I was a year or two younger, I would have been climbing all over those dinos!
I saw several people out strolling in the park and enjoying it’s pleasantness. There were also some skaters who were practicing their riffs on the long flat and paved surfaces.
It was a sweet way to close out the day.