Park of the Week: Country Faire Park

One of San Ramon's biggest prides and joys is the city's amazing park system. Our city has a whopping 53 parks spread throughout our vast community, ranging from small neighborhood playgrounds to multi-acre, multi-feature parks.

Each week we'll be highlighting one of our city parks, showing you photos, listing park features, and telling you what's special about them. We have so many parks that it will take Patch more than a year to profile each of them. So if you have a special park you'd like featured next, let us know!

Park of the Week: Country Faire Park

Country Faire Park, a small neighborhood park off Montevideo, isn't a large destination park like Central Park. But it offers a quiet retreat for families with toddlers overwhelmed by the big-kid parks.

The park on Terrazzo Circle features a special play area for tots who love skateboards but are way too young to ride one. The "SkateBoard FingerPark" is a large platform (think train table) topped with a concrete skatepark for miniature finger skateboards. Youngsters will love riding their finger skateboards all along the dips and obstacles (see photo).

A curved tiled wall specially made for the park provides a colorful backdrop with hand-painted scenes of life in the San Ramon Valley.

Country Faire Park's toddler swing set and small play-structure with a short tube slide make this a good park for young kids. The structure also features a built-in puppet show opening for playacting. You can leave the sand toys at home: This park has bark chips.

The park has two picnic tables and a drinking fountain, but no restrooms (restrooms at the nearby gas station are just a short walk away).

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