Val Vista Park

Val vista park is my favorite place in Pleasanton for family photos. Especially in the summer! You’ve got access to a playground for the kids after you finish you photoshoot!

New fixtures since I visited a year ago. Fun playground for the kids. There's also a skating ring for kids on the other side. According to my pitch perfect son, the xylophone is missing the F and B notes 😊

a review from @amom2kidsandapark

Holy spiral slide! Val Vista Park has everything you could ever need in a park and more!
This park has three play areas, two seasonal splash pads, a community garden, well-maintained sidewalks, soccer fields, group picnic sites, a skate park, an inline hockey rink, a labyrinth, and plenty of open grass.
The largest and most involved playground has the HUGE spiral slide, a triple slide, and a tube spiral slide (with a plexiglass window so it doesn’t look pitch black at the beginning. There are steps, ladders (including some styles I never seen before 😱), bridges, a climbing wall, a balance beam, monkey bars, spinning circle bars, a gymnastics bar, a climbing rope web, and when your kid gets tired of the endless playground opportunities there are large cement cylinders around the outer rim. Close by is a much smaller play area with two slides (tube and straight), a ladder, and stairs. There is a small swing set with bucket only swings. Near this play area is one of the seasonal splash pads, toddler-size picnic tables, and a really neat replica mountain range that creates a great way to incorporate the water from the splash pad into a river through the hills passing down a waterfall and ending in a pond. All of this took some imagination since the water wasn’t actually on. We will have to go back when there isn’t a drought and it isn’t “fall”. Close by these two play areas is a climbing wall, bathroom, and group picnic site.
A ways away is the third playground with three slides (spiral, double, bumpy), steps, ladders, bridges, and activities. There is a swing set with standard and bucket swings plus a ride-on rocking toy. Near this playground, you'll find the second splash pad, more group picnic tables, and bathrooms.
Don’t miss the large soccer balls and the mosaic bench. Keep an eye out for birdhouses, squirrels, lizards, and birds (we saw a huge white egret).
There is a huge parking lot from the main entrance on Johnson Dr or street parking in the neighborhood behind the park on Payne Rd.

This park just went through a major remodel with an entire new playground. There are plenty of places to climb and run around. It is really nice there is a seperate play area for little kids.

After renewal of children play area it looks amazing.
What I noticed is that the slope for small kids is very high and difficult to use by many young 1,2,3 years old kids.
Also, I was expecting some physical exercise simple least expensive equipment for adults in this area. So that adults can do their workout instead of wandering. Such equipments are placed in public park in Hong Kong, India, Singapore ...

Good little park in Val vista.
There is a big dog park next to playground.

The park was updated in August 2023

Great fields! When you first see them, you think it's turf. Once you get closer it's a great cut of grass!

Very clean and quiet park. Great for kids and to walk your dog. Sometimes the air smells like poop because the water treatment facility is next door. Doesn't smell everyday but once in a while.

Love to bring my dog and let her run off some energy! Fetch is her preferred game.

Big open park with lots of room to skate. Transitions are kinda big and slow but it's still a fun place to skate.

Flat and easy path way roller skating ring along with scoccer and baseball fields. They also have many play structure and a.water park for the kids ranging in age. Very nice community garden. A really nice wandering path that is occasional covered with trees and drinking fountains along the way. Bathroom are clean and tidy

Held my grandsons 2nd birthday there last year. They have picnic areas and even trees to hang the pinata from. Clean bathroom. And the water area was refreshing for young and old alike. Highly recommended.

These fields are what soccer fields should be. GREAT, grass not turf. Kept close to perfect. A very nice soccer complex. It sits next to a water treatment plant, so it gets the smell once in awhile from it.

Very calm serene, wide, green place to relax, walk, run cycle and play with your children and pets. No shortage of smiling lovable people around.

We had an awesome time at this park! We went all the way to the back this time and we had no idea that there was another playground at the other end of the park!!! Kids loved it!!! Also take your own soap. Wish they would put soap dispensers in the restrooms.

Beautiful clean park with lots of walking and big fields

I have been coming to Val Vista Park since its inception. It's a jewel of the Val Vista development with its impeccably kept green fields; "hard" areas for skaters, and nice picnic facilities for families and groups. The amenities continue to unfold with the children's play area including slides, swings and it's ever popular water features. The thought of having assigned garden patches for our local amateur "green thumbs" was a brilliant idea. Zucchini and tomatoes abound !Idont believe there has been a time when all the plots were under utilized. The explosion of colors and textures catch your eye as you continue to stroll by on your walk towards the Zen garden and the meandering connecting paths.

I've been here once to use the outdoor rink. It's pretty smooth and easy to skate on. The bathrooms however are all the way across the park so don't hold it too long.

Pretty sweet place. Has a skatepark on North end and playground on South with at least 3 or 4 acres of grass connecting the two. Kids love the water Jets and bathrooms are clean.

Great place to walk my dogs. Always clean.