Located on Santa Clara St. right next to the Roosevelt community center. The park has a nice play ground for the little ones, plenty of grass area to relax, tables, and a skate park. The bathrooms unfortunately are well.... Let's just say not sanitary. There are about 50 ground squirrels living right under the trees next to the kids park. Overall not a bad little park IMO. read more

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I'm not a big fan of this park, the location and area's just not that appealing. So, coming here for the Viva CalleSJ event this past Sunday, I wasn't surprised that I had an undesirable experience. Event organizers typically make an effort to clean up the parks and sometimes temporarily relocate homeless camps and individuals during events like these, but they didn't do much to fix this place up this time around. I've only been here once before, years ago, for a roller skating rink pop-up event, and I like that the paved areas of the park are smoother than the streets, better for skating (in my case, rollerblading to be exact). They even have a skate park in addition to a couple small playgrounds. I did get bothered during my recent visit, by strangers in the park who were clearly not there for the event. I don't like being harassed while at a public park, even in broad daylight, it makes me feel unsafe and disrespected. Can't imagine what it's like when there's no special event taking place here. The grass was so dirty, if you look closely, it's gross, and I'm not just talking geese droppings (can't get mad at the birds), rather trash and litter, just dry filthy grass there's no way I'd sit on for picnicking or anything. It's too bad, cuz if this place was cleaned up, it could be a nice park. It may offer sports facilities and a community center, but I don't get a good vibe here, and atmosphere's a big factor for me, so you'll never find me hanging out here on a regular day. read more

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900 E Santa Clara St San Jose, CA 95116 Roosevelt Park is a large public park in the City of San Jose. I found this park by accident when I was driving around east of downtown SJ. I was on a dead end street, and found a driveway to this park. Initially it looked nice. Modern sports facilities, bleachers, and solar panels. As I drove further into the parking lot, I saw people working on cars, groups of people gathered under trees and a homeless encampment. I felt unwelcome, so I left. In general, this is probably a nice park. A city park is a place to relax, exercise and have fun. But you need to feel safe. I will remember to avoid this place. ------------------------------------ Just heard about this park in the news. The City of San Jose understands there's a problem here, and is working on it. read more

This cute park has been repurposed as homeless housing. While my scan of the large playground showed zero needles, I wouldn't go running through the field here just in case. No children here and we stayed and played for about 5 minutes. While we were there, three adult men were approaching us, they may have been well intentioned but my spidee senses made us bolt. Our neighborhood park has had the same fate so we will keep searching for family parks that are not an encampment. read more

Roosevelt Park - Parks exterior is surrounded by an encampment, not visible from the road. - Parks Near Me - San Jose, California

A pretty whatever park with a bonus homeless encampment. Don't get me wrong here, the homeless ppl aren't the bad park of the park, it's that we allow to many homeless people to fend for themselves and a park is the only thing that they can find. The skate park part has a bowl half filled with rain water turned moldy a green. The kids there are cool tho. So say hi to Kyle when you See him. Grass is pretty overgrown so if you like running in fields not wholly knowing what's in the grass this is the place. read more

This is actually a really, really nice park if you look at it from afar and ordinarily would be a 4-star park. "So, why only a 1-star rating?," you ask inquisitively. That's a really good question, and the answer can be summed up with one word: clientele. The local denizens of this park are comprised of mostly Skate Punkz(sic), gangbangers, and (my favorite!) Local Outdoor Enthusiasts (LOE). These inhabitants make this place an uncomfortable place to hang. It's pretty difficult to enjoy yourself at the park when you're constantly having to keep an eye on what the natives are up to. The only reason I ever stop here is to use the restroom at the adjoining community center, but other than that I'd avoid this place. Now that I've given you all the reasons NOT to visit, I suppose it would only be fair to list the reasons to visit: 1) Nice Playground and Tot Lot 2) Skate Park--ergo the Skate Punkz 3) Basketball Courts 4) Handball Courts--thus the gangbangers 5) Coyote Creek Trail access--that explains the LOE 6) Lighted Softball/Baseball field 7) Roller Hockey Rink (see I told you this park had some cool features!) 8) Restrooms inside the adjoining community center are, generally, pretty clean. 9) Standard picnic areas w/ BBQ pits In summation: great park with a lousy location. read more

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Handball tournaments, skate park, basketball courts, softball field, hockey rink, and community center all are fun to be at

The park itself is really nice, great equipment in newer condition. But there are homeless people EVERYWHERE and I was constantly worried my kid was going to find a used needle in the tanbark. We stayed less than 15 minutes before we bolted; it was just too uncomfortable. read more

The skate park is interesting. It's not quite a vert park, but it's definitely not a street park. The concrete I've been told is slick, moreso where there is graffiti, obviously but there didn't seem to be much of that. The location is good. It's close to downtown, and just off the Route 22 bus line. If you're here for skate parks, VTA is a good option since there are three on the east side and then, this park. I did not see a parking lot. As soon as I walked up with my camera, someone said "No photos, no photos!", as though he was internationally famous or something. I somehow restrained myself to only photograph my buddy who was with me. Naturally, the skate park doesn't really seem to have any shade but there was a bench in the direct sunlight. Thankfully, Wienerschnitzel is just across the street and there is a Walgreens further down the street for drinks. read more

I am rating the skate park in itself. I wish there was a different rating to give solely on that. Regardless, this is one of the best skate parks in San Jose besides Lake Cunningham Skate park. The half pipe is awesome to work on stalls on roller skates. In general the park could be maintained better, even thought there is a community center, they tend to avoid everything behind it. Chicks in Bowls San Jose-Ca has adopted the skate park to maintain it clean with the skate park and surrounding areas of it. read more

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This is a poor excuse for a soccer field. Soccer matches are held in the outfield area of the baseball field. The pitch is patchy, full of potholes, and some sprinkler heads stick out threatening to tear your ankle or knee ligaments. The field dimensions are super small. So you have a cramped match on a crappy pitch with really dry spots on the grass. I'll give them an extra star because it has lights and in San Jose, it is hard to find lit soccer fields during the winter months. read more

Ghetto park - skip it. My son is on an adventure this summer to skate at all the local skateparks. I knew this neighborhood is rough hence why we made a 9am visit during the week before the gangbangers woke up. The skatepark and the soccer fields are poorly maintained. Graffiti is all over the skatepark - not cool creative graffiti but tags everywhere with the nortenos gangs name tagged all over in red. Ok guys I know this is your hood, the one tag that is 7 feet long was big enough for me to read you didn't have to tag it 50 more times! There were a few derelicts who were annoyed that this mommy bear was supervising everybody while her son skated and scootered. One or two guys were scooter ing and skating but the rest were just hanging waiting for their homies. We had some verbal exchange - good with one 20-something but the other one...well we had a little attitude adjusting session. So my son skated for 30 minutes and we left before the real punks woke up and showed up. It's too bad because the entire park and community center has potential, but it's so sketchy that I wouldn't even leave my car parked here unattended. The one cool thing is that there is a Panaderia around the corner and we stopped in and had some hot pan Mexicano dulce. Otherwise skip this place. read more

Roosevelt Park - Ghetto skate park well tagged in Nortenos territory - Parks Near Me - San Jose, California

Fun park. First time here. Love watching silicon valley roller girls.a little rough Finding parking lot. read more

Roosevelt Park - Parks Near Me - San Jose, California

I don't know about the soccer fields, but the new skatpark is pretty rad. T here's a big giant pool that I have'nt had the balls to try yet and then a big bowl area that goes from vert areas to a little mini ramp type spot with steel coping all around. Around the outside, there are street type obstacles to grind and manual on. The concrete is painted tan and green and isn't too slippery just nice and smooth. Lots of fun for all ages and no authority figures around to ruin the mood at least not yet. Not even a sign with a bunch of rules on it knock on wood. I saw that little kid again with his mom and dad. It was there first time there and he was ripping it. read more

Pros Skate park Huge outdoor seating for birthday parties and occasions Hockey rink Roosevelt community center Handball court Soccer field Park for kids Has way more than most parks do! Cons Can have some sketchy activity due to it's locations Overall 3.5-4 :) read more

I play on a soccer team that is part of the SBASL (South Bay Adult Soccer League). Roosevelt Park's soccer field sucks SO BAD, that I had to Yelp about it. =) If you have bad ankles... watch out. This field has many holes and a very uneven surface. Unfortunately, the center of the field towards both ends is devoid of any grass at all. =( The only tip I can offer here is stay out of the sun if possible. There is an area of the sideline towards the far corner of the field that will be in the shade in the early evening... so your team may be able to have some advantage by staying cool in the shade. =) read more

Pros: 1) Next to amazing Roosevelt Youth Community Center 2) BBQ areas 3) Two Playground areas for kids 4) Tennis Court 5) Plenty of Shade 6) Nice place to people watch 7) Very clean park 8) A lot of Youth Programs visit here 9) Restrooms available for both genders Cons: 1) Close to traffic (Santa Clara St) one of the main roads that runs through downtown san jose. 2) gang activity at racket ball courts located at the very far end of the park. Tips: * As long as you do not go ALL THE WAY to the back of the park, this is one of the best parks located near downtown san jose! Great place to have a picnic, run, walk dogs, and enjoy the afternoon with your kids playing. If you have time... check out the community center next door. They always have available resources, free/low cost community support, and great upcoming free community events! Great place to get involved with your local community. read more

This park has a bad ass skate park here, they got bowls, the flat ground service is really smooth to land your tricks. They also have a basketball court. Plenty of parking too. read more