Great walking and bike trail that connects to many parks here in Gilroy! Pros: Spacious for all sorts of activities as long as you bring your own equipment Easy Parking Free to enter Cons: The parking lot has some sketchy activities where people smoke, drink and play loud music. Take that for what its worth, I just minded my own business and continued walking read more

Christmas Hill Park - Parks Near Me - Gilroy, California

Happy with this park. It really has everything you need. Two diamond baseball fields with lots of grass to catch. Including a few bleachers. Three different bathroom locations all over park as will as well kept toiletries. My personal favorite area is the playground. Lots of benches and comfortable sitting areas next to the tanbark playset. Lots of room for younger or older kids. The benches also have their own barbeque pits. As well as a huge party hosting area with larger barbeques which includes two sinks and two long tables. Conveniently next to the bathrooms to but not to close lol. Did i mention there is a giant outside theater!! Yes for everyone. Very cool with seats to fit hundreds of people and extra seating for vip too. This place is called the amphitheater. You can find a fun walking trail behind this too so be sure to visit. If you're new to gilroy i recommend coming here for 4th of July to see the fireworks. Lots of parking and guess what, there is even another huge park and trail across the street. Cant get any better than that. I notice lots of soccer teams use that extra field for so. Lots of space. Lots of space, lots of fun. Dont even have to bring your own chairs. Great park. read more

Christmas Hill Park - Lots of green grass - Parks Near Me - Gilroy, California

This park has many types of amenities. There are plenty of eating and picnic areas with grills. There is ample parking around the perimeter of the park with plenty of open space or is to run. It looks like sport events can be held here. There is also an amphitheater and the park is humongous. However, being in the park felt creepy and there were many cars parked with people in their car for long periods of time. Walking around the park alone felt scary and morbid for some reason. The lowest intersection had memorials adorned by flowers. The park has a nice play structure for younger and older kids. The park does not really have paved or wide pathways to stroll around. read more

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I don't really understand why this park has a low rating. It is good for hiking and has a bike trail that goes through. The scenery there is nice and you can park nearby and walk it. read more

The Good: This park is very large and takes up both sides of Miller Ave. On the south side is the larger area with baseball diamonds, play structure for kids, picnic areas with bbq pits and plenty of open space. Toward the far south is an amphitheater (see below) On the North side of Miller is a baseball field and a huge grass area. This has its own parking lot. At the very North end of the park is a "off leash" dog park which also has parking. The Bad: During peak times the park gets very very crowded. As a result there can be overflowing trash cans, under supplied bathroom facilities and little/no parking. The Ugly: A previous review mentioned the sketchy people and drinking, etc. I will better describe this for all who might be thinking of coming here with kids or alone for a walk..... On the end for the amphitheater it is almost always populated with gang members, drug users, or other people that are doing drugs/drinking/or a combination of all of that. There is also drug deals that openly go on in much of the park near the parking areas. On the North side of Miller it is far less populated, however the parking lot almost always has people sitting in their cars using and selling drugs. It takes about 15 minutes (if not upon arrival) to see cars pull up, nobody getting out and then the smoke, foot traffic, etc of the drug users. It's a great park, but gets low ratings due to crime and not being properly patrolled/attended to read more

It all started at a young age, going here to play on the all wood 'tree house' looking playground, remember that one?? Then, when high school rolled around...this was know as a chill hangout for drinking beers with the crew or hiking & running up and down the amphitheater to get sexy legs for the summer's bootie cutters! haha Now, it's def a nostalgic place & the home of the G~Fest every hot July. This park is huge & has picnic areas, an amphitheater, a creek, a few baseball diamonds, and 1 playground with tons & tons of grass!!! The levee borders one side making it a really green beautiful & long walk|jog|run etc. Super pretty & super green. read more

This is a 5-star park with some 1-star problems. It's big, beautiful, and has a lot of great features. Lots of picnic areas, a big play structure for kids, giant lawns, more than one baseball diamond, and huge and newly renovated amphitheater. The things that drops this place down to 2-stars, is that it is always (and I mean always) packed with sketchy people. I am not a parent, but if I was I wouldn't want my kids to be playing within the sightline of anywhere from 5 to 25 adult men drinking alcohol in the middle of the day in the picnic areas. I'm telling you, there are absolutely ALWAYS people throwing down what my buddy Chris G. would call "Paper Bag Treats" at all times of the day. That, and plenty of (what appear to be) drug deals going down next to the aforementioned beautiful amphitheater. It's really a shame, because this park could easily be the best park in Gilroy if it weren't for those deal breakers. read more

Home of the Gilroy Garlic Festival and the levy! Great park and picnic area with little walking trails. Very clean! Enjoy! read more

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There are so many ways that you could think about Christmas Hill Park; A hot dead grass wasteland filled with drunk and garlicy smelling people who spill beer and sing loudly to cover songs. Of course this is really only for 3 days out of the year when it plays host to the Garlic Festival. A park where kids come to play, where there is a giant expanse of grass, and plenty of space for everyone. And a rather seedy place where at any point during the day there could be a drug deal going on, a joint being smoked, and some liquor being consumed. All of these really depend on what time of day it is. If you want to have a nice family outing with children the morning hours are for you, the seedier folks are still in bed sleeping off the previous nights activities, and the sun is shining brightly on the large play structure with swings and slides designed for kids in the 6 and up range. There is also a smaller playground designed for the smaller children, and so parents can worry less about them tumbling off a high structure. As the day progresses and school lets out, the park takes on a different characteristic, where high school students from nearby Gilroy High hang out, doing various activities some legal and some probably not. As late afternoon and evening come, so do the mosquitoes, and the seedier crowd. I don't have a problem hanging out here and BBQing some dinner at this time, and if you're having a good time and not bothering anyone else then I wouldn't expect to be bothered at all. However this isn't the time that I would want to bring kids around if I had any. This park really is nice, the grass, the picnic areas, the baseball and softball fields, but there are those people that you just don't ever feel totally comfortable around, and because of that it's hard to say that it is a great place to bring wee ones. read more

As much as people love it for the Garlic festival, its also a pretty decent park for softball, taking your kids to the park, just hanging out, and getting a run in. There's benches and fire pits and big fields to play in. There's limited parking so if its a big event you might have to park and walk in. It's also really nice when it rains and there's water in the creek. With the recent weather, its jus been a dry Creek bed. The hills behind the amphitheater are the perfect place to get a workout in - whether it's a walk, jog, or sprints uphill, its a great place to get in shape. The trails also connect to along the creek for a change of pace on a paved road if you need something flat and without rocks. The only precaution is that every so often, there's a small population who go to the park and drink and/or smoke and people who drive extra fast through the parking lot. Avoid these people. Other than that - cool place to workout and hangout. read more

Park looks beautiful from driving by. Once you are actually on the playground area you will notice how dirty the play area (candy wrappers, Lolipop stick, etc.)is along with the sand. Definitely not clean for toddlers. Definitely disappointing but as this was my first time will definitely go there one more time... perhaps I just happened to be there after a party. Perhaps city of GILROY can keep an eye on this park and make sure it's clean up to its standards! read more

Don't let its location fool you... Although it's on the "older" side of town, this place is pretty awesome. There was a drug crackdown incident there a few years ago, and they've since been trying to keep the riff-raff out. There are jogging trails, two playgrounds (1 for toddlers, one for older kids), and plenty of areas for picnics, parties and BBQ's. There's a creek that runs through it, and the levy runs outside of the park, so it's easily accessible whether you're walking or driving. It tends to get busy in the summer (especially on weekends). So, if you want to have a party there, reserve your space through the city of Gilroy. There is plenty of shade for those hot days. There are sports games going on on the "barn side" practically every weekend in the summer. Keep in mind, the Garlic Festival is held there every year on the LAST COMPLETE WEEKEND of July. read more

This review is on just the playground area. There were several people drinking near the playground at 3pm. One couple got into an argument on the playground (little kids one) where both were intoxicated. Pros: The playground area is really clean and the kids/parents were nice so might try it again sometime. read more

Gilroy Garlic Festival is located here! Great venue, HUGE! Gotta love it.

this place is disgusting and im talking about their yearly garlic festival. first of all why would the parking be like 5 minutes from the actual place like explain. why are you wasting your own profits just to rent a lot of charter buses to get to the actual festival. you expect us to pay $15 just for parking and then other $20 for admission. how can you have security bag check but all they would do is tell us to open up pur bags and look inside for a split second and approve. what kind of security is this. then when you walk inside your greeted with scamming sponsorship activities such as signing something or spinning some wheel to get something for free. they also have "giveaways" with their free roku tv or a $100 gift card. i didn't even get ro the worst part, this place is unsanitary the stands and the benches looked not cleaned. the worst thing about this is the food they serve. how can all of their food be overpriced. some examples are their garlic shrimp, how can you only give out 6 pieces of shrimp and have the audacity to sell it for $10 like what tf. even the garlic fries and calamari had better portion sizes and their pride was less. i would also like to complain about their pesto pasta, all it tasted was a little spice and it was greasy, i didn't taste any pesto. they had free garlic cream which literally tasted like vanilla ice cream with a hint of garlic in the after taste. my throat couldn't handle the garlic in the aftertaste. their milk teas can get deleted. $6 for some medium sized cup, i ordered the thai milk tea and the boba pearls were too chewy and the thei milk tea tasted like medicine a little. i saw a womaon ordered a regular milk tea and it basically looked like iced coffee with boba. my sisyer ordered the strawberry slushy and it came with boba pearls. first of all what kind of disgrace as drink can you serve with a slushy and boba. the slushy was too sweet and the boba pearls were also chewy. also how you can sell large sized soft drinks for like $10 each like explain. and when we were trying to take a family picture in front of the charity money they have gathered my auntie wanted to take a picture as well with her husband and child and they were together with us in line but these american people behind us had the audacity to cut in front of us and take a picture of their 2 children and when we were in their way how can their mom say "um you're in the way" bitch tf why do tou think were still in line do you people not see were still in the line what manners do you people have clearly you cant even look at your surroundings. and then some white washed asian family decided to cut in front of us again and take their photo so we gave up and didn't take the picture. people don't have any manners clearly because all they care about is this scamming yearly festival. obviously i am not coming back here it was a mistake of driving over an hour just to waste our time. read more

I want to give this park more stars, because it really can be a beautiful place. The front two baseball diamonds and adjoining fields of grass are fun places to throw a ball around with friends or just read a book, but the back corner, near the amphitheater, is filled with ghetto activities. I get nervous walking through there with people drinking alcohol furtively in their cars or on the curb in groups. Ranch side is nice (across miller) and usually ghetto-free read more

Came here for the garlic festival. Glad they offered free parking and shuttles to the festival. The space is very large and I was happy that not all of it was dirt because that would have been really gross. The festival is definitely not worth $20 but I really wanted to go just to try the garlic crab fries and those were sooo good and I guess made the trip sort of worth it. read more