Crush It At This Playground: Grape Day Park - Escondido
Crushing it at the playground!! ๐ ๐ Grape Day Park sure lives up to its name! You can even slide right through this bunch of grapes.โจ ๐
This is a pretty big playground with lots of other fun climbing structures and swings behind this grapevine. (Swipe to see.) It's a registered landmark and home to the old train station ๐ with historic buildings lining the edge of this park, like Escondidoโs first library ๐ , an 1890โs Victorian house, barn & blacksmith shop, even an old tractor to climb on. ๐
๐ AMENITIES:
๐ฝ Bathrooms
๐ฅช Picnic tables
๐ฆฎ Leashed dogs are allowed
๐คธ๐ปโโ๏ธ Horseshoe pits
โ ๏ธ CAUTIONS:
There's a busy street in front of this park on N. Broadway. The park is set back a ways, but watch out if your kids like to run away...
๐บ WHAT'S NEARBY:
๐คธ๐ปโโ๏ธ Right across the street is the Childrenโs Discovery Museum in Escondido
๐ฅก Across the other street is my favorite Chinese restaurant, Chin's Gourmet - grab some takeout!
๐ญ On this same lot is the California Center for the Arts - they sometimes have great shows & programs for kids
๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Next door is the James A. Stone Municipal Swimming Pool (25-yard swimming pool and small children's pool)
๐ฐ HOURS: Sunrise to Sunset
๐ PARKING:
1. Side Streets
2. There's a parking lot behind the California Center for the Arts, sometimes you have to pay during an event and sometimes it's free. This parking lot is on N. Escondido Blvd. between W Valley Pkwy & Woodward Ave.
๐ WHERE:
Grape Day Park
321 N Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025
760-743-8207
HAVE FUN!!
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