With dozens of parks, hundreds of programs, and a full menu of services, Parks and Recreation touches you and your family’s lives in many different ways.
Our Mission:
The Parks and Recreation Department creates community through people, parks and programs. We:
Provide an appropriate mix of safe, well maintained and well designed parks, open spaces and community center facilities that are accessible for all residents
Create enriching leisure opportunities for all age groups that support lifetime users and enhance the physical, intellectual, social and cultural growth and development of our residents
Enhance the value of parks and recreation as an essential community service by ensuring access for all and providing outstanding customer service, effective public information and strategic engagement with identified community partners
Preserve and protect the City’s natural resources including its urban forest, public open spaces, pedestrian and bicycle trails and landscaped medians and islands
Parks and Recreation helps create a sense of community that makes the City of San Mateo a great place to live, by:
Operating 16 athletic fields and 22 playgrounds.
Managing 21 sports facilities including tennis and other sports courts, swimming pools and our golf course.
Maintaining many City landmarks and more than 40 miles of paths and trails.
Caring for more than 3 miles of beaches and shoreline along the San Francisco Bay and Marina Lagoon.
Facilitating boating use of the 220 acre Marine Lagoon.
Looking after about 25,500 street and park trees.
Maintaining over 250 landscaped medians.
Offering almost 300 different types of activities from classes to camps, educational lectures to exciting excursions.
