Mission Hills Park — Pleasanton

Mission Hills Park in Pleasanton is worth the drive. With a hillside slide, two playgrounds, lots of grassy space, and miles of sidewalks its sure to keep your family active for hours.

I just love a park with a hillside slide

There are two playgrounds, half basketball court, a creek, bridges, exercise equipment, grassy open space, so much sidewalk, and picnic areas with bbqs (plus one site with a covering).

The metal 50 foot double hillside slide was our big draw to this park. There are a couple of bumps on the way down to help slow the slider, but even so, it makes for a fun rush! Getting to the top of the slide is easy using the stairs to the left, the inclined rock wall to the right, or the steps behind. Of course, there’s always the option of running up the hill

Near the slides is a swing set with standard and bucket swings. Just beyond that is the green playground.

The green playground is a bit taller than normal with lots of climbing opportunities. There is one straight slide, steps, various ladders, a unique bridge, a rock wall, a rope wall with step rings, a large sphere for hopping from one platform to the next, activities and a little room with a serving window for some pretend restaurant play (yummm wood chip nachos are my favorite ). If the structure wasn’t enough for your kids, the play area also has climbing boulders with parallel ropes, stepping stones, a big mountain lion statue and a mallet instrument

The second playground is a bit more traditional. It has three slides (sidewinder, double, and straight), a bridge, steps, ladders, a tunnel, activities and pirate theme face cut outs for photo ops!

Connecting the two playgrounds are lots of sidewalks with exercise equipment every so often (some I’ve never seen before like the giant pikler triangle and the highest monkey bars), bridges, big shade trees and so much beautiful grass!

I loved this park… even if it was 100 degrees out

No bathrooms. Street parking.