Town Center Community Park

Very nice Community Park! Don’t be fooled by the many Baseball diamond/​fields! There is much more in back! Including a YMCA, soccer fields, trails, walking paths, remote control mini 4×4 dirt track, Stage for events/​bands, kiosk & display boards giving information and up coming events. Nice sized parking lot in the back: use Riverwalk Street to Park Center Dr. to the south. Also there is dirt parking expansion for major events: Like Santee River Days Festival I went to last weekend. PS: Santee has more events this weekend for San Diego River Days–

During the River Days Festival a lot of new trees were planted! THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS & FAMILIES! The walkway path goes all the way around the many soccer fields, open area/​stage, restroom facility, cooling mist shower, playgrounds, to two bridge connections across river to YMCA & Baseball diamonds parks, parking lot, and past remote control mini 4×4 dirt track (there is berm to watch from), there is also a large picnic area with two gazeboos for larger groups. Near the picnic area is a connection to San Diego River Trail, and path going over to lake/​river banks. There are many long trails for hiking & biking besides the paved paths.
Now the baseball facilities are AMAZING, stadium style bleachers, snack bar stations, picnic tables, nature river/​creek settings, many parking lots, pedestrian/​bike bridge over Cuyamaca St. This saturday had hundreds of families participating in games, and others practicing late. If you walked all the connecting paved paths in this park complex you’d probably do 2 miles of walking, if not more. After the eastside park there are open fields with trails to other area of town/​river.

Great food, great people. Awesome beer. Great please to play softball and meet people.

I wish this park was here when I was younger. I would have played sports even more then I already did growing up. I take advantage of it now to run and just relax. I do wish you could play on the indoor soccer fields without having to pay to be in some league. Still this is a great addition to Santee.

Had an awesome time at the park for the summer concert series that Santee had at the park! Too bad I just found out about it and this was the last concert of the summer! The nights theme was elvis as an impersonator sang for the concert. At the park there were a couple vendors including barona and various food trucks. Everyone brought their own chairs, blankets and booze and relaxed in a family fun environment. If that wasn’t enough, they had a contest for best decorated space which was rewarded a prize of $ 225 in gift cards to various reaturaunts. Next year I’m in!

Nice fields! Visited here for a softball practice and was impressed with the field and grass conditions.

I love the Fourth of July celebration here, I love the fields on Sunday mornings. However, I do not love the first fields (near the jungle gyms) on Sunday mornings as they are SOAKED and SOGGY. This is a great place to take my toddler and his tiny soccer ball on Sunday mornings to practice running drills. Or maybe I’m the one running drills and he’s training me?
We did notice that by 10 more trainers and/​or dads are out with kids working on the footwork for soccer.

MOTHER’S GROUPS ARE TAKING OVER ALL THE PARKS ON WEEKDAY’S!!!
So here is how it went down… Drive to Woodglen Vista park… No parking and kids and mothers and strollers galore!!! OK, moving on. Next attempt, Shadow Hill park. Same damn thing. Only this time there were even MORE of them if you can believe it. On our final attempt of the day we come here… And would you believe it I told you that it was empty! Awesome… Now I don’t mind some people but with 5 – 7 day care kids an already packed just creates chaos.
It’s nice here that the play area is surrounded by fields so if a kid wanders off a little don’t have to worry about the parking lot being so close, there are two separate jungle gyms and swings. A nice gazebo close to the play ground with picnic tables. A close and clean restroom. And even misters! On those hot Santee days those misters are Gold!
Now don’t you stay at home moms read this and decide to move your moms groups to my park… I would hate to start a war between home day cares and moms groups but trust it can be done!

A nice well maintained park with plenty of parking. A great park for Kite flying when there is no soccer games. Includes a covered stage, 3 small and 2 large gazebo’s, playground and public bathrooms.

Beautiful upgraded sports plex

This is a very nice park and well maintained. It has a large parking lot and many fields to include a sports turf field. Thus a park for kids to play and very wide walking path for them to ride bikes. The bathroom facilities are nice as well. This park is sort of hidden behind the YMCA and next to the Santee SportsPlex. Santee has many parks to play in, and this one is very large and has a music venue stage area that opens to a large field. It could be a little hard to find shade on a hot day since it has such large fields with minimal trees to provide shade. However this is fine for fall to spring weather since it doesn’t get to hot during that time. Come for a jog or just to relax. There are a some folks that even fly model airplanes here since it is so open.

This is a very nice park and sports area! Well done Santee!

Came here for a 5k run. The venue was very simple: a few fields, a restroom, and some gazebos. This is a very spread out place, very spacious for any occasion.
My actual run was alright. But throughout the race, I got to see all that the park has to offer, all the sights and sounds. Though each field was flooded from the week-​long rains we encountered, I really enjoyed this place.
The park will only get improve, and get better recognition in the community. I would recommend stopping by!

This is a great park! There is a full sized turf football Field and soccer Field, along with open grassy areas for you own games.
The Fields are brand new and in great condition, they have a decent playground for little kids and two pavilions for seating, along with a few scattered tables and a stage.
The park is along the San Diego river, so there is a small problem with mosquito’s, I haven’t had much of a problem but I have heard some complaints.
Most people are out there to exercise so it shouldn’t be a big deal BUT parking is only at one end of the park, away from the turf and play ground, or you can park up by the sports plex and walk down. So don’t expect to have your car nearby.
There are no built in BBQ’s here so make sure to bring your own!

This park is pretty brand new, it was finished and open to the public back in October 2010.
This park is HUGE!!! and the bathrooms are pretty darn nice for a public park. They were CLEAN! and the toilets weren’t those nasty jail cell metal ones.
We went here for both our sons football games (they play for the Mira Mesa Chargers), and they had two huge football fields. There weren’t any stands for the parents, so bring a chair. But they did have a few scattered gazebos and even a Snack Bar. I must say, the Santee Ravens have a damn good park. There’s no scoreboard tho.