It’s early Thursday afternoon. Schools are still in session.While many of Manteca’s neighborhood parks are quiet at this time with nary a hum or shout from a single soul, the Family City’s largest community park is a hubbub of kids’ voices in the playground equipment, of lazy conversations among adults keeping watch over babies in the covered picnic area, their controlled whispers punctuated by the rhythmic thumping of a basketball hitting the backboard of the hoop basket and the high-pitched squeals of pedal-pushing young children.Welcome to Woodward Park, south of the Highway 120 Bypass.But while it’s the biggest at 52 acres, and arguably the busiest if not the most popular recreation destination for both young ones and young once, Woodward Park can’t lay claim to being the “best with the mostest” play attractions. It does feature the largest playground area around.
PLENTY OF PLACES TO PLAY
Playground features abound in Mantecas community parks