Buddy Todd Park

Great park with excellent mountain to sea vistas and cool mature trees. We love taking our dog on walks here. I consider the park to be very safe and the neighborhood folks are very friendly.

The most beautiful park I have ever seen ! I have dreamed of a park like this for years and I finally found the park of my dreams ! It’s a green grassy flat plateau park that sits atop a tall mountainous hill. The west side has a wide open panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean. When you turn around and look east you see beautiful mountain ranges in the horizon. It’s full of shade trees of pine trees, palm trees & oak trees, ect. It has a nice children’s playground also. It’s a large park and profoundly beautiful !! Take a jacket. It’s often cool under these big humongous shade trees.

A nice park with beautiful trees. My dog loved it there. There were other dogs there too, thankfully they were well behaved and under the control of their owners.

Used to be nice…
However, thugs and other delinquents have moved in and tagged the place up and down and made it dangerous to go there. I don’t care if you think I’m profiling. Tell me I’m wrong.

This is one of the few remaining parks of my childhood! Has gone through so many changes over the years. It ‘s such a beautiful spot with lots of mature trees, rolling hills, open grassy fields, large play ground with the same type of train that we played on when I was young, trees to climb up, bbq’s and lots of picnic tables, sports courts, and some amazing views! During the week it’s pretty awesome! On the weekend it’s taken over by large parties that leave their messes behind! Skip the weekends! Really!!!

Nice park, police need to step up patrol of it during the weekends, drove by yesterday and there was a «gang» of young mexican thugs cruising around it, looked like a bunch of cowardly punks. Get up this morning and turn on the t.v. and «breaking news» guys body found their early this morning beaten in his head.
I dont care if it is racial profiling, when the police see a group of them walking around the park all wearing black hoodies and dark jeans that look like they were stolen from a fat person cause there 4 times the size to big for them, they need to be kicked out of the park and have their names ran for priors.

Perfect spot on the top of the hill.
Tremendous view.
A lot of huge trees giving shade.
Must visit!

Nice park. Plenty of grass area to have picnics or just room to run around. Ok playground.

Buddy Todd has been a part of my life since early childhood and it’s been a joy watching it change and improve its playground equipment to better ensure safety and optimal fun for the little ones! (No more wooded structures giving little hands splinters or metal slides and railings that burnt like a BBQ on a hot day)
So green and full of life with huge trees giving shade, flowers in abundance for sniffing and picking, and tons and tons of grassy areas for frolicking! Several picnic areas for parties and quaint lunches. Sidewalk routes are nice, perfect for a walk around Buddy Todd or a tricycle ride for the kiddo! The playground is large and caters to many different ages: big slides, little slides, monkey bars, those springy animals for riding on! Swing sets offer both the big-​kid swings and the toddler swings. The ground is covered in wood-​chips, which doesn’t feel too awesome if you’re wearing flip-​flops, but definitely catches a tumble or fall well! Park bathrooms, wish I could say they were impressive but… they’re your standard, hardly lit, no promise of being clean bathrooms!
The TRAIN is the best, in all its blue, red, and yellow glory! If your child is a choo-​choo lover, this is the park to visit! The train is perfect for climbing in and out of and letting one’s imagination go wild! Heck, I’ll even climb into the caboose with my son to sit at the little table and pretend to eat lunch (pinecones)
In a quiet, older neighborhood, Buddy Todd’s the place to go!

I love bringing my two yorkies to this park! They enjoy all the amenities such as hiking trails, and trees. It has great views of Oceanside and during the summer you can have a few friends over with you to play volleyball or horse shoes. Clean, Peaceful, and relaxing!!! it is a nice park to just sit with mother nature herself!

Love this park. It’s very spacious, has good views, and is a nice place to be at sunset. Not many people are here, either, when I come (mostly after work — not really peak hours, admittedly), which is good if you like some quiet. However, despite that, there rarely seems to be enough basketball hoops around.

I have been going to this park for years now. Walking my dog & just for exercising. It’s a nice clean big park but sometimes it can be a little ghetto.

II honestly don’t like this park. :(its nice with all its nice trees and there is good grass areas but… I don’t like the splinter-​y wood chips on the playground. The play-​structures are dirty and tagged up. The bathrooms are NASTY! I have found some gross stuff on the floor of that bathroom from douche bottles, condoms, pregnancy tests… Gross. Its really packed on weekends with parties. Its just not all that.

Buddy Todd park is pretty nice a lot of people come here. The people who do come here are mostly families with kids, people walking their dogs and people running on the path. I used to come here to eat my lunch and just enjoy the park but that changed. I’m not going to say every time but just about every time there is a dog off leash with the owner not doing anything about it. One time there where two stray dogs and I caught one of them, I used my belt to contain him and I called the Humane Society and the owner came to get him from the park. I don’t know how many times I’ve been here and seen a dog off leash. At the same time I have seen a lot of dogs on leash so its not all bad at Buddy Todd. If I did bring my dogs here I would be on the look out because you never know what’s going to happen. I like this park because there are tables close to trees so you can eat in the shade. Also there is an ice cream man that comes about everyday near the restroom area. Buddy Todd is a pretty big park so there is always a place to go and just relax with your family.

There are volleyball, basketball courts that are located on the outer perimeter. You can have birthday parties here and they have concerts here of local talent. Nice facilities. Playgrounds and a jogging track, I love this place.

looks great after the remodel!

This is a great park. Lots of open space and beautiful pathway to walk my dog. Great views of the ocean from the west side. In the winter, you can even see snow on the mountains from the east side. 4-​paws up for this place.

I love this park! It’s beautiful… has great scenery… and it’s always full of family celebrations on the weekends and holidays.
Here’s some of it’s GREAT features:
* playground — climbing gym, swings, train to play on/​in & more
* basketball court
* horseshoe pits
* volleyball net
* hiking/​biking path
* trails
* bathrooms
* lots of shade
* great place to walk dogs (poop bags, please clean up after pets)
GREAT for PICNICs too! You have to check it out!

Buddy Todd Park is a Oceanside landmark. I’m not quoting that from anywhere, every picnic, birthday party, and soccer practice has been here. There are volleyball, basketball courts that are located on the outer perimeter. You can have birthday parties here and they have concerts here of local talent. There was even Hunter’s steak house catering. Not the greatest park there is but still nice and enjoyable, playgrounds and a jogging track, it is close to schools and to where I
live. I love this place, My son and I like to come here and play catch.
Come here and enjoy. One star deduction cause no duck pond, The local illegal population would probably kill them. I wish this was more like Sunset Park in Las Vegas.