Lincoln Park Playground

This park is super adorable. It’s not one of the biggest parks around SF, but it definitely has a lot of options for your child to play around. Also, it is close by to a big grass hilly field, and your dog can go running around to its heart desire. Just make sure to pick up its poop.
Anyway, the floor around the toys is the squishy soft kind, in order to protect your child in case they fall. They have several slides, swings, monkey-​bars, and whatever else you want in a park. I believe this park is good for children of all ages.
Another thing that I love, is that this park has a few picnic tables. So it was super nice to grab take-​out from a close by restaurant and eat, while our niece played around with one adult supervising her. Great option for parents who want restaurant food but have a toddler who don’t want to sit still in a restaurant for an hour.

No sand, but if you have a little explorer the dirt garden immediately behind the playground is sure to keep your little one nice and dirty.
It looked like most of the kids stuck to the playground– and why wouldn’t they? Great slides, an awesome spinny thing and two different areas of equipment, based on age/​level of bravery.
The grass area is nice and sloped, which helps to keep certain little explorers within chasing vicinity, which is important since the play area is not fenced in. Well, there’s a low stone barrier, but it serves more as big-​people seating and little people walking/​playing surface.
It’s probably one of the cleaner playgrounds we’ve been to in the city.
There’s also a Fresh & Easy is right next door, so if you need to grab something from there, well, it’s right there.

Awesome park! No tanbark! No sand! Soft ground perfect for a worried mother. The playground is up to date with cool slides and spinning things. Clean. My kids loved it!

The views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the bay and the ocean are magnificent. It is a nice place to walk; even in the car you can see these views from roadway. The Legion of Honor, one of S. F premier museums, stands on a highpoint in the park. The museum is a beautiful building. The park, the views and the museum are all magical.
It seems to be almost impossible to park on the weekends and whenever there is a special exhibit.

Awesome place!!! Walk past the swings and then follow the trail that follows the golf course, you will get to some stairs which have a nice view. Continue to Follow the golf course path and you reach a road cars go on. This is where the coastal trail starts with an awesome view of the Golden Gate Bridge and the ocean. It’s an awesome trail that isn’t too intense. Very nice and relaxing walk that will lead you to the sutro baths.

The playground was completely remodeled. Gone is the dirty sand and in its place, soft mat. The play structures are also new and in great condition. A few minuses:
This is not an enclosed playground. So if your kids prone to wander around, then you have to be extra vigilant that they don’t wander up the street and off the facilities. Since it’s not enclosed, that means any stranger can actually wander and too. So yeah, you pretty much have to keep an eye on your kid at all times if you go here.
The bathrooms are creepy and disgusting. It’s not located in the park. You have to climb up a hill to enter what looks like a creepy abandoned building. Park & Rec, why is the bathrooms not lit? If you renovated the park, why didn’t you fix the bathrooms? Again with the issue of an open park, you have to worry about some creep hiding in the bathrooms.
Park=fun for kids, stressful for parents.

How things change! I don’t know how long this new play park has been here, but it has some really awesome play structures for the kids. Including lots of spinny things that remind me of being in an amusement park. We never had playgrounds like this when I was a kid. We were lucky if we had monkey bars and a slide. Forget the rubber floor. We made do with sand.
The kids loved it and we had to finally drag them away. Standing around in the cold watching them stay warm by playing finally got to us.

I just love this place. My recommendation if you’re downtown: take the #5 (Fulton) trolley and get off at La Playa St & Cabrillo St. There’s a Safeway, where you can purchase stuff for a picnic. Walk south across Fulton St. to get to Golden Gate Park, where you can visit the Dutch Windmill and the Tulip Garden, and then down on John F. Kennedy Drive and across the Great Highway to Ocean Beach. Walk north to the end, where you can the Cliff House and Camera Obscura. Further North you’ll see the Sutro’s Baths, and then East, along Point Lobos Ave., you’ll find the entrance to your right to Sutro’s Heights Park, right before 48^th Ave. When you exit Sutro Heights follow the Lands End trail until the end (northern trails have the best views of the Golden Gate Bridge) and then take El Camino Del Mar back to the Legion. When you’re done exploring you can follow 34^th Ave until Geary Blvd, turn left and then right onto 33^rd Ave, and ride the 38 (Geary) bus back to Union Square.
Not too many people and some of the best views of the bay. Definitely, one of my favorite places in SF.

A place to get away without actually leaving. San Francisco is an amazing city to feel that way about many places of this amazing 7×7 place. Lincoln Park houses an amazing, sprawling location to chill and just be.

A good upgrade from the former playground. I spent about an hour here from sunset to ditch dark night. Kids and dogs still come when the sun has set as late as 9:30pm when I was here earlier. There are two tables with bench seats and a lot of other makeshift seats on the concrete that encloses the playground. I don’t recall any sand; all the floor is the tough foam that looks like it’s made out of millions of fake mini-​pebbles (don’t know what the surface is called).
Kids are really intrigued by the spinning-​rope «tree”/carousel. The structure is really plain. There are only 2 «adult» swings and I saw 2 baby swings. Low budget, I guess. There’s also a grassy hill directly next to the playground that’s great for rolling down. However, it’s kind of dog territory so scout out the dog crap and bugs first.

The Legion of Honor is located here and there is a golf course to play on. I go here for the walking and the sights. I really like that the trails are for anyone to walk, just watch out for the golf carts and golf balls, they both should have the right-​of-​way.

There’s a part of me that misses the green wooden play equipment that used to live in a huge sandpit here, but I’ve also spent time here recently with my nephew and niece and have seen how much they love the new play equipment, so I’m going to throw nostalgia out the window for once and declare that, in this case, change is good.
It helps, of course, that the new play equipment is weird looking and kind of scary and that it’s actually possible for children to get hurt playing on and falling off of it. I’m not saying I like to see children get hurt, but a lot of new playground equipment is so safe that it’s not really fun, and there is a certain unquantifiable value to children injuring themselves slightly and learning lessons from these injuries. If you don’t learn early on exactly how high you can climb and how far you can fall and how fast you can spin, how are you going to make more educated decisions about physics and risk-​taking and personal safety when you’re older?
Helpfully, there is separate equipment for younger and older children. That’s not to say that my two-​year-​old niece doesn’t love the big-​kids equipment and my four-​year-​old nephew doesn’t love the little-​kids equipment, but it is nice to be able to sequester your tiny tot to the smaller, less dangerous structure.
San Francisco doesn’t have nearly enough children, but the ones who are fortunate enough to live here have some pretty amazing places to play. If you’re looking for a new place to bring your kids, Lincoln Park Playground is definitely worth the trip.

There’s the Legion of Honour, with beautiful fountains and Rodin in the entrance.
There’s a golf course for the middle aged and polo-​collared.
There’s beautiful views overlooking the city from very far away.
Beautiful views of Golden Gate Park.
Beautiful views of the ocean and towards the Bay and Golden Gate Bridge.
There’s a playground with the most kickass play equipment. (So sometimes I end up here after nights at Tee Off to go swing… literally).
I love this park.

This is a great way to experience the raw power and rugged beauty of the CA coast while still being w/​in the city limits of San Francisco. After a few minutes of walking, you are miles away from the urban jungle and can commune with nature, get great views of the Golden Gate Bridge, and disappear into the fog. If you come to Golden Gate Park — and by all means, do! — make a stop here as well. You will not regret it! Land’s End, esp., is really worth a visit.

Great place to get in touch with the nature side of yourself! Close to the Cliff House, Lands End, Baker Beach, and hey, there’s even a golf course up there!

Best place in the CIty to find a cute hunny who is in touch with her natural side… and who probably enjoys doobies.

What a gorgeous park with breath taking views. There are plenty of parking spots right next to the Lands End trail. Great place for a jog or a romantic walk.

Follow the paths through the golf course behind the Legion of Honor, take the trail down through the trees (and then up the stairs) about a mile out. You’ll find yourself on a small secluded beach in the northwest corner of San Francisco with killer views of Marin County, the Pacific Ocean and a decent view of the Golden Gate Bridge. As a bonus, someone’s constructed a large circular maze of rocks on the cliff overlooking Marin, which gives you something to do while you soak in the scenery.