Overall, this is a nice park with a good number of picnic tables, a splash pad that's great for…read moresummer, decent restrooms, and a small playground. The walking trails were the highlight well-maintained, shaded, and surrounded by dense trees.it's clean, peaceful, and a pleasant place to spend a few hours outdoors.

I know why the blue left, and the red told me why it was leaving, but why did the Greenleaf?…read more This lovely park in the north of Charlottesville also contains one of my favorite YMCA locations in the country - so it's a great park for more than one reason. Definitely one of the best recreational areas of a lovely town.

The AFC is a great place to work out or watch the NATIONAL CHAMPION WOMENS SWIM AND DIVE teams…read morecompete!!! The meets are all free to watch and you will catch many olympians and amazing swimmers. UVA is great at swimming historically and the women have won ACC titles for the past 10+ years with national titles too. They are very impressive to watch.

I'm definitely not the only one who's checking this place out since it's free to all UVA students…read more I must say it's a very decent gym in our college town. I have not been to many gyms in Charlottesville to write a full comparison, but this place has everything you need for your daily workout from basketball courts to swimming pool and free weights. They do not have towels so you gotta bring your own. Overall, the gym is pretty clean and equipment are fairly new for the most part. I've also posted a photo of their current fees for non-uva students

This facility does not honor the military outreach program that the rest of the YMCA's across the…read morecountry have implemented. The rude lady at the front desk yesterday said she called her manager, who told her we needed to give her a "list from the DOD." First of all, there is no DoD, it is the DoW. Second, who would give you this list, Hegseth? Third, we have CaC cards that prove what part of the DoW we serve with.

I don't see how Brooks Family YMCA can have a negative reviews…read more This is an outstanding club in every possible category. My grandkids love the summer and school holiday camps. They're the best run programs I've seen. I love the gym, the weight lifting facility, the treadmills, and most notably the 13 great swim lap lanes. The grandkids love the family pool too. This is a great facility, membership at a very reasonable price.

I love this park! On nice days I often walk over here after visiting the central library. My family…read morecalls it the "dizzy park" because so many things here spin around. Pros: small, contained park with plenty of shade and benches around the perimeter. The playground structure is fairly new and well maintained. There is also a small waterfall fountain that's on in the summer months that's perfect for small toddlers to play in. Cons: tiny public parking lot, no public restroom, the higher slide could do with more of a railing around the platform, and the surrounding pre schools use the park around 11:30am on weekdays so it gets very crowded at that time.

It was a tiny park. Two play areas for children of varying ages, swings, see-saw for three, and…read moreplenty of benches for parents around the perimeter. There were only four other children at the park which has its pro's and con's. The good thing is there weren't so many kids, that you couldn't see pass the throng to find your own. The bad part is they were all boys and not interested in playing with my hyper-friendly little girl . . . at least I hope that's why they ignored her completely. I was glad to come to the park because we'd passed it so many times, I was equally happy to leave. Perhaps if I had planned a play date with another kid, it would have been different. Nutshell: this isn't the place for a kiddie connection.

The park served as a place to stop and eat for me. It wasn't in the greatest condition, and looked…read morefar less presentable than other parts of Charlottesville only a few blocks away. There were ample facilities available for various activities, but on the rainy day I stopped in the main attraction was kids playing in the mud. They seemed to be having fun at least.

Pro: moderate parking lot. Con: shady people, not safe…read more Was walking the dog at 7am in the morning and you already have shady people sitting around the area making you feel unsafe. The park has a playground, a field, some trail in the woods, basketball & tennis court, and a water spout area. Mostly, the area is in a bad neighborhood and is unsafe for people and children.

My 20-month-old daughter LOVED this park. It's across the street from an amazing coffee shop…read more(Shenandoah Joe) and has several main areas- a playground, a basketball court, a swing set area, and a pool. The playground is always open and it's built for slightly older kids. However, the bright blue and yellows allured our 20-month-old there and she loved it. She was able to climb to the second level and go down the slides and steer the toy wheel. The third level requires climbing a ladder, but if you can get your kid to go up, it's worth it. They have two larger slides that adults would enjoy too!

This park has a basket ball court, swings and a play area for little ones. There is a pool that…read morelooks like it would be fun for kids when it is open as it has a mini water slide. Some benches under trees. Located across the street from a Shenandoah Joe's coffee house.

We attended a concert at the venue last night…read more The parking lot is easy if you're early. There was a lot of traffic and slow moving late. Walking is easy but recommend eating before you arrive because it's very hard to get a seat at a restaurant nearby, which is not the arena of course. Seats are ok but roomy enough for normal sized people. There is not much space to allow people to walk in front so you have to get up, like the wave, if anyone has to get up. I managed to wait-others should try it out. The views are great.

Watched UVA beat Virginia Tech Men's basketball here. Sat in section 301, the view was great and…read morenot too high up. Upon entering the arena we were already on the 300 level which was nice. Parking was free and there was ample parking on site.

I can't speak to the cost because I come with my grandson and his parents, but the place is just a…read morefun place to be. There's a small bar, a place to eat (can also get food delivered). Currently there is a jazzy band playing. There is plenty of shade and chairs. A cool place to chill...

Good pool club, with a baby pool (1.5ft), a kid pool (3-4ft), and a full size lap pool with lanes…read more(7ft at its deepest). Water temps are comfortable. Kindly staffed and well maintained (reasonably). Theres a little sandy area for landlocked kids to experience some beach, but it wasnt raked (twiggy and a bit weedy). A beach volleyball court up on the hill. Summer family membership is $1000. pool toys and goggles are available for guest use.

This park used to be our neighborhood park. We lived just down the road, so when my husband and I…read morefirst moved to the neighborhood, we would walk down and intersect with the Rivanna River trail which goes through Azalea park. Or we would loop around the garden plots that are down there at the far end of the park and see what folks were growing. Or we would go use the big spread of grass to throw the frisbee around. The playground is pretty cool, too. (Admittedly, around sunset when the kiddies had all gone in for dinner and bath time, we'd utilize the freedom and play on some of the playground equipment--lots of exciting things you can spin on/in!) Kid (and "big kid") approved. Then we had a baby, so I would stroll the babe down to the park and loop around the park's paths and back home, or I would sit on a swing and hold my babe and swing with him for a bit. Ah, the circle of life. Now we've moved and I already kinda miss Azalea Park. (Note: There's also a dog park; just a fairly large gated in area of grass where you can let your dog off the leash.)

Azalea is our preferred dog park in Charlottesville. It has two large fenced-in areas that share a…read morefenced entry pen. We bring our sheepdog Appa here at least once a week when the weather is cool/cold enough for him, less often in the summer (Charlottesville's summer heat is pretty brutal on our fluff monster). In all of our visits we've only run into a few dogs that aren't very well socialized and are aggressive towards other dogs (we've encountered this multiple times at Darden Towe). For the most part all of the owners are very responsible, friendly, and approachable and their dogs follow their example. There are always tennis balls laying around that are up for grabs, several picnic tables for humans (and sometimes for dogs to climb on), poop bags/trash cans, and water bowls (and a pump to fill them). Overall it has just about everything you could need. The one major downside about Azalea's dog park is that it has very little shade. There's a single large tree on the west side that casts some decent shade in the evening during the summer, but for the most part the sun scorches down and there's no hiding from it. It would be fantastic if the town could plant a few more trees here. There's plenty of parking, and trails and a stream nearby. Appa's a better socialized dog thanks to Azalea. We're very glad we found this park.

It's a great park, lots of fun for the kids even teenagers. Only problem we had was it's a public…read morearea and the pavilion is free to the public and the other people that were there were mean to my 1 year old daughter. No one wanted to share the swings, they hogged literally almost everything there. So she had to just enjoy herself running around the park in the grassy area. I wish it didn't have such nasty people because it's amazing to be free. I gave it two stars only because of the people that were being mean to my daughter.

This is a nice splash pad/park combo. Both areas are clean…read moreand well maintained. The splash pad has several fun features for kids and my 10 month old enjoyed it as well. There is a pavilion with picnic benches under it beside the park as well as a large grassy area offering ample sitting room. There are 2 separate playgrounds, one for 5 and under and one for the older kids. Just be careful when kids go back and forth from splash pad to playground because I have heard a couple stories of children slipping on the metal playground structures when wet, which could obviously be dangerous. One thing I do like about the playground is that the ground is the soft rubbery stuff and not pebbles or mulch, so my little one can crawl around as well. One thing that would make the playground better is if it was covered. Unless it's overcast or evening, the structures probably get too hot to use during the summer. Overall a very nice and fun place for the kids to burn some energy!