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Patch Picks: Great Picnic Spots

Here are five places to spread your blanket or tablecloth and enjoy a leisurely picnic!

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Picnic spots: The weather is finally warming up after a long, wet winter, and it’s time to get out and enjoy the sunshine. Pack up that picnic basket with goodies, fill the cooler with your favorite beverages and head out to one of these five great places for a fun picnic with family and friends!  

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Campbell Park

This park has a lot to offer picnickers. There are six “first-come first-serve” picnic tables, a small open grassy field and two basketball courts with terraced seating for the spectators. The basketball courts are lit up for night-time playing. You can also get in a game of horseshoes at one of the two pits. Kids will love the playground, which includes a separate area for toddlers. Restrooms are available. The park is a major access point to the Los Gatos Creek Trail.

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Community Center

If you like a little exercise before or after your picnic, this is the park for you! There’s an all-weather, night-lit track; a football stadium and bleachers; four tennis courts and three handball courts, all night lit; a fitness zone and center; a year-round heated pool; and for the skateboarders in your group, a skate park. But if you’re there to simply relax, kick back at one of the picnic tables and watch the others do all the work!

Edith Morley Park

This environment-friendly park is a serene, beautiful spot for your picnic. There is one reservable picnic area with eight picnic tables from which you can enjoy all the parks amenities, which include a lovely Community Garden and a marsh and wetland area with walking paths. This is the perfect place to take in nature while enjoying your picnic lunch or dinner.

Jack Fischer Park

This neighborhood park has some fun features, but make sure you check out the rules. Kids will really enjoy the park, though, with its water feature that’s perfect for a hot summer day. The playground, “bee hive” hill and large grassy playing fields will keep the kids happy the entire day. The park has six picnic tables on first-come first-serve basis and restrooms.

John D. Morgan Park

This is an all-time favorite park for many Campbell residents, and with good reason. The 32-acre park boasts two softball fields, a soccer field, other open playfields, two playgrounds, four tennis courts, two sand volleyball courts and four horseshoe pits. Three picnic areas are reservable; 20 more are first-come first serve—all with barbecues. The park has two restroom buildings as well.

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