Crestview Park

Really nice park, only downside is parking lot is small so you’ll need to fish for parking on a somewhat hilly main street.
Nice slide and jungle gym fixtures, beautiful track/​soccer field, and restrooms arent bad.

First discovered this recently renovated playground a few months ago. It is now a favorite of mine in San Carlos.
Pros:
Very well designed semi-​enclosed play area
One entrance to playground helps you keep track of kids (not gated but at least only one point of entry/​exit)
Basketball courts adjacent to playground
Picnic tables
Overall good visibility and line of sight anywhere in the park
Field area surrounded by track is awesome for playing ball, scooting & riding
Cons:
Not very walkable as it is in a hilly area
Parking lot is small so you may have to street park on a hill
Not much shade so better in the cooler months
Overall, if you are looking for an enclosed playground and grassy area you really can’t do much better than this anywhere in San Carlos.

Love the space! Will be back.

We frequent here with our dogs or my in-​laws dog.
Walking distance from up or down the hill it’s clean and nice.
If you are walking down the hill just be aware the hill going back up is a doozy!!!
Not sure why people are complaining about messes. The place has always been super clean when I come here.
And please dear god keep picking up after your fur kids!!!

Great park for a crawling and climbing toddler. The slides are nice and shallow so my 15-​month old can climb up and slide down on his own. The sand pit is fun and he loved climbing the «steps to nowhere» and hopping down the other side. Too bad there isn’t more shade.

It’s a very visually appealing play structure, but my child didn’t care about the nice metal flowers or cute bug climbing ramp. Not kid useable. For example, the ramp was hard to climb because of the cute raised characters. Or the interesting sandwich statue doesn’t offer any use for play. The neat jumpy pad is inaccessible to parents, so limits a smaller child getting on, which may be good to self select who plays on the possibly bigger kid structure.
It’s not fenced in.
It’s far away from any other places, so limits lunch adventures to bringing your own picnic.
Maybe we caught the park on an off day, but it seemed the children weren’t very friendly.
It is very pretty, has unique play features, clean, well maintained, and has a bathroom.

This place is unreal. Driving there is half the fun for my boys — high up on the mountain driving by scenic views of the bay! Playground are awesome, clean, and safe. Plenty of hide and seek options. Restrooms are clean, real grass fields are well taken care of. No complaints!

Great neighborhood park — I do love the track here. Especially nice super early when there’s hardly anyone out
«City of good living» defined

This place is brand spanking new, squeaky clean, and never crowded. What a gem. Thank you San Carlos!

Major renovation of Crestview Park is now complete, and they did a great job. Natural grass field is now open, and there is an excellent running/​walking track. (5 laps = 1.1 miles) See
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For what it is it’s a good little park. After public response the plan was revised without AstroTurf and without removing the redwood trees. Renovations finished in December. New playground is pretty good, though the step to nowhere and the concrete sandwich are a bit bizarre. New field looks great though — looking forward to enjoying this in the years to come.

Newly renovated and re-​opened mid Nov 2014. A great playground with a sand pit for young ones and older kids too (they will love the giant peanut butter sandwich!) There’s a new grass field, running/​walking track, basketball court and picnic tables. If you love Burton Park, you’d be thrilled with Crestview Park.

Spent a lot of time here with my son and his soccer team. The field is a bit chopped up. Instead of retrofitting it with astro turf, Id like to see them just redo the field with regular grass and maintain it better.

Great neighborhood park and good for dogs. The play area for kids sits in sand is suited for kids 3+. Obviously you can take younger ones there, and I did, but the slide, swinging tire, etc are for the 3−4+. Great cement area with hoops courts where kids can practice riding those small bikes. Walking path around part of the fields (2 – 3 fields). I went there on a Sat 6 PM — and it was quiet. They also take dogs off leash which is nice.

Who let the dogs out!!!
I visit this park once a week or so to run my dog (s).
If you time yourself right, you can have the whole field all to yourself, but there are a lot of soccer practices in the afternoons.
The park picks up a nice breeze, has beautiful views and is very nicely
taken care of. A very relaxing place to visit with kids /​pets!
& You can easily let your dog of it’s leash for a little exercise time!

Another reason why it’s great here. San Mateo County Astronomical Society have their Crestview Star Parties here. That’s where they bring their telescopes and those cool astronomer’s laser flash light thing that points at the stars to tell you how many light years away they are and teach the little ones about the stars and galaxies. It’s really friendly meetings of star struck people.