Martial Cottle Park

Haven’t explored the entire park yet it’s so big! But I saw this lovely coyote this morning!

This is an excellent local park. It was so generous of the Cottle family to leave this land to San Jose residents rather than to develop it into another strip, mall or condos. It is clean and well maintained. The rangers are warm and helpful. There is ample parking.

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A state park inside the center of San Jose with well reserved farm. Very clean and comfortable BBQ panic area. A flat loop of trail to be able to walk, jog and bike. Good for dogs and kids. Fees required but many other entrances if only for trail.

I’ve been going to this park for years to walk my dogs, go biking around the neighborhood, & play Pokemon Go. But ever since I became a mom, I LOVE this park so much more! Beautiful place for photo shoots, & children of all ages can enjoy it! This park also has the best kept restrooms in a public space.

Martial Cottle Park exceeded my expectations. The visitor center was a real treat filled with history and information about the Cottle family and use of the land. The park has a fun playground area with play animals to ride and logs to climb. Huge picnic areas and a few miles of paved pathways for walking and biking.

Martial Cottle Park is a wonderful open space area with walking and riding trails, and even a children's park. They have picnic area's and nice clean bathrooms. A great place for the whole family. It's a dog friendly park as well.

Just discovered this park. Absolutely love it. The visitors center is amazing with lots of local history. Volunteers are very friendly. If you have a 4 legged friend they can become a Bark Ranger.
The bathrooms are clean and new.
The playground is amazing. So many cool places for kids to climb and play. We love this place. And it’s very calm and relaxing. So many birds singing. Love it. 💕💕💕💕

Wonderful place for both adults and kids. Park is very large and expansive and has several parts. Start with the visitor center - lots of history and very helpful rangers. From there you can bike, hike, roller skate along park’s long paths or head to the playground. It’s quite unique with wooden animal statues that kids can ride and play with. There are a lot of succulents planted everywhere with helpful tags explaining their purpose and how to care for them. We saw people launching rocket models in the large grass area, people biking around, having picnics (many very well maintained picnic tables all over the place). The only problem is finding shade - this place is quite flat and though they have planted trees they are still pretty small.

Restrooms - plenty and clean.
Parking - $6 entrance or outside on street.
Stroller friendly - yes.