Park of the Week: Sherwood 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: Sherwood Park

Though one of the smallest in the San Ramon park system, what Sherwood Park lacks in sheer size it makes up for in attractiveness and charm.

The majority of the park's 1.5 acres is occupied by two big and brightly colored play structures. Each playground has a tanbark base and several fun features including rock-climbing walls, twisty slides, bucket and regular swings, tic-tac-toe games and an inverted rope pyramid to monkey around in.

Between the two playgrounds is a pretty white gazebo, which shades a picnic table and several wooden benches for lounging. Parents will find this a nice respite from the sunshine-soaked playground.

Other picnic tables and accompanying barbeques line the outskirts of Sherwood Park, most of them coolly and conveniently placed underneath trees. Sitting down at the table you may be pleasantly surprised as some of the tabletops are built for an outdoor game of chess or checkers.

This ever-pleasant neighborhood park is rounded out by a large, well-kept grassy expanse perfect for tossing a Frisbee or a leisurely picnic under the trees.

An important note: Little children should probably use the restroom before Sherwood excursions, as there are no bathrooms at the park.

Have you visited Sherwood Park? What's your favorite thing to do there? What do you wish the park offered that it doesn't? Share your views with other Patch readers by adding your comment in the box below.