Hayward Rotary Playground

Loves– playground is fenced in. Parking right in front with plenty of spots. Can walk to nearby food. Soft flooring.
Hate– Homeless’ clothes and garbage around like the playground is not routinely cleaned. Not enough seating for parents.

Good park for little kids only it is clean and safe don’t go on a hot day just think the pattern on the ground gets really hot smells funny.

This park is located on a busy street. There is plenty of parking and it is fenced in to keep the kids from running into traffic. There’s lots of space to run around but BEWARE this park is in need of repairs. There are huge holes in the ground near the play areas. I tripped on one of the holes myself! Even though this park is on a busy street it doesn’t seem to get crowded. A big plus!

Great park in hayward

My kids love this park! The kids love the swing and my littlest love to run around the rubber top and just have fun. The play structure is nice only thing maybe it could use some shade in the summer months. Other than that we love it!

My daughter has been visiting this Downtown Hayward park since she was a toddler. It wasn’t around when I was little; it has rubbery recycled floors and primary colored plastic play structures. We have visited on Off the Grid Mondays and summer days and it’s been busy. We were alone for most of our visit on Black Friday. There is a small parking lot that is hard to enter now that traffic has been rerouted after the Mission overhaul. After three loops around the block, I finally got in. The big minus is that there are no restrooms. However, you can go across the street most days to the Main Library.

Great park! Lots of parking. Right next to the library and in walking distance to cafes. They have some cool stuff to play on. A little rock wall and tons of space for the kids to run wild. There isn’t much shade if that’s what your looking for. But if you want to work in your tan while you watch the kids do it here. They also have a gate that locks so the kids can’t escape.

You gotta love the gate and the rubber floor!!! There are very few playgrounds; although new, they still don’t put the rubber floors in. Perhaps, its expensive to maintain. There are already spots on the floor that need patching up but, its not too shabby. Thanks to these rubber floors, I don’t have to lift a finger and let my 1 ½ year old have free reign and not worry about her scrubbing her knees.
There are always a good number of kids here. It’s not overwhelming but enough for my 5 year old to befriend. He also loves the springy motorcycle looking things. I’m not sure what you call it but he loves to hop on that and pretend he’s a Transformer.
We have a blast here and will stay here hours on end even after dark. I wish they have better lighting at night though and it sucks big time that there are NO BATHROOMS!!!

I agree about the gate being pretty cool that you don’t have to worry about your child running off, especially when you’re hands are full with a 5 week old and your toddler takes off pretty quick, thats a great help! I liked everything there as far as swings and a variety of things for kids to do, along with the cleanliness. The only thing was, the spongy ground attracted too much heat on a hot day and there isn’t much shade, only a couple of spots near the benches. Other than that it was a nice park.

This park does not look like much but it is one of my favorites to go with the children I nanny. The huge gate around it assures that they don’t run off (not that they would because all I have to do is get that «don’t you dare» tone in my voice and they listen).There is a squishy padded ground to assure that there are no scraped knees and our shoes aren’t filled with sand and tan bark. There is a great climbing wall for older children. Despite the smallness of it, there is plenty to do.
–1 star because there always seems to be lots of garbage around the benches… maybe because the only garbage cans are outside the gate.

I took my daughters here the other day and they both had fun… here the thing: my daughters are 10 months old and 15 years old! My oldest daughter keeps asking to go back! I thought she was too old for parks… she says she wants to go for her sister to have fun. You gotta check this park out! It is sooo clean, and a lot of fun… and the rubberized ground is cool too!

Our playgroup came here based on my friend J.L.‘s Unilocal.It’s a great park for active crumbsnatchers! Fenced in for those with little ones who can run fast and far (we have a couple in our group). Large enough to ride their little bikes or to rollerblade, yet small enough we parents can sit on the shady bench and chat and still keep one eye on them (for the most part). Love the spongy/​corky floor.
Easy to get to and easy to park.
It lost a star because there is no bathroom.

I go here under the guise that I’m being a good mommy when secretly I’m just a BIG kid too!
Swings…YAY!
A twisty slide… YAY!
A weird bouncy thingamajigger… YAY!
A pseudo rock-​climbing wall… YAY!
A yellow ducky on a spring… YAY!
And best of all… it’s all on this bouncy rubber turf… YAY!
That means: NO SAND… NO TANBARK… NO WEIRD GRAVELLY-​STUFF (read: nothing for my son to throw or put in his mouth that inevitably has been peed on by all the neighborhood animals, including the drunken bums).
WOO-​HOO!