Helen Wills Park

2007 | Best New Playground

It's not exactly a new playground -- Helen Wills Park has been offering the denizens of Russian Hill a bit of recreational breathing space since World War I -- but a couple of years ago the old girl got a dazzling facelift that amounted to a stem-to-stern, all-inclusive, cross-generational rebirth. For years the .83-acre concrete-and-asphalt playground (named after the great Bay Area tennis star and Olympic gold medalist) had been in disrepair, with a dilapidated clubhouse, little or... More »