Parks with shade

Main Beach Park in Laguna Beach offers a playground that helps kids learn ocean lessons at the playful lifeguard tower.

Yorba Regional Park in Anaheim is a forested paradise with fishing lakes. Feels like Yorba Linda, but actually in Anaheim.

Stanton Central Park and Splash Pad provides an awesome gathering place for the community with a water play area open in summer months.

Are you looking for OC playgrounds with shade covers? It’s still hot and not ideal, but at least these are playgrounds you can visit in a pinch to get the wiggles …

Tamarisk Park in Lake Forest is tucked up in the foothills above Trabuco.  The park was upgraded in Summer 2014 to remove the old-fashioned metal merry-go-round from “the olden days” when …

Heritage Park in Tustin is centrally-located near Tustin Marketplace. Pirate-themed playground is a great spot for family picnics!

The Bosque playground at the Great Park Trails in Irvine is yet another example of the complicated naming FivePoints uses for this area. They actually call this section the Upper …

Concourse Park is in the Portola Hills neighborhood of Lake Forest. I never knew how to get to those “houses on the hill” on the way up El Toro Road …

Oak Park in Aliso Viejo is a nice spot off Wood Canyon.  We visited around 4pm and the shade was heavenly.  It’s also near Soka University. I’ll definitely be coming back …

Springdale Park in Aliso Viejo is known by two other names: Spiderman Park or Spiderweb Park.  Upon driving into the cul-de-sac that features the park, you can immediately tell why. …