Saratoga Lake Park

"The positives: Nice park with water views. Great for fishing, kayaking, and nature walks. Has a basketball court, and pavilion area with picnic tables for rent, and is dog-friendly. The negatives: Desperately needs updates and maintenance. We rented the pavilion area for my niece's birthday party last weekend. The price paid was not worth it due to what we were told it included and did not have. None of the electrical outlets worked. The water spicket handle was removed so we were unable to use it. The tables were infested with spiders. While decorating the tables I found many brown recluse spiders and egg sacs. One ran across my hand while placing tablecloths. Thank goodness that it did not bite me! The bathrooms were filthy and had bug nests on the windows. If these things were taken care of it would be a lovely place. It's sad to charge people to use the space in the condition that it is in. I added pictures of the bathroom but none of the spiders because I am terrified of spiders and I was not going to get anywhere close."

"Quiet lake front park in a quiet neighborhood, walking trail, and the city just installed new kids' playground equipment and teen/adult exercise equipment. Horse shoe pits, restroom building, and lots of picnic tables. Basketball court is usually in use late afternoon, early evening. EDIT, 12/22: Hurricane Ian took quite a toll on the park but it's still a good place for family activities. The City did a good job cleaning up after the storm, but at least 10% of the trees, especially some of the larger ones were lost. There are still several large uprooted stumps in place and the shade for the kids' playground is still missing, as well as the lights for the horseshoe pits. The walking trail lights are still in place but haven't worked since Ian. The recently installed kayak launch sustained serious damage as well."

"Amazing park, beautiful atmosphere with the lake, plenty of benches, workout machines, a burrowing owl habitat, karak launch, playground, basketball court, horseshoe area, pavilion, and very clean bathrooms in a safe neighborhood."

"Nice quiet little in park. Good walking loop with Pokemon GO stops to spin. A safe habitat for burrowing owls too! Has a playgrounds for kids. Very clean open area. Don't feed the Gators."

"This is a cute park. Lots of people walking dogs and with kids. There were 2 fellows playing basketball on the court. They have 6 hoops. The parking isn't super big but no problem finding a spot. There are 2 playscapes. One I would say is for bigger more experienced kids and the other for infants and younger toddlers. My LO likes the slides and swings. My only complaint is that they have the playscape area enclosed with a fence and the swings are on the other side of the fence and not fenced in. If you want to go from the playscape to the swings you have to go around, which gets mildly annoying when your kid wants to go from one to the other. If they had a gate from the playscape to the swing area that would be better. The playscape is on fake grass and the swing area has wood chips, which of course my toddler thought was fun to toss around. Not much seating here, but there is a picnic table. If you are looking for a spot where you can just sit and let your kid play, you'll probably be sitting on the ground. There were probably 6 other kids there with their caregivers but I didn't feel crowded. The swings were wonderful and had a nice view of the small lake there. There were restrooms but we did not go into them, so I don't know if they were clean or even open. It's not too far from our home, so we will visit again and perhaps see where the walking path takes us!"