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Charles Raneri Playground at  Vacation Beach Park

This beautiful riverfront park and playground was just recently remodeled in 2024! 

It includes a brand new playstructure with three slides, a zip line, a swing,  climbing structures, and several other fun features for kids.

Other park amenities include  a half basketball court, picnic tables, fill station/water fountain, portable restroom (seasonal only April - Nov) and a  bench with a lovely view of the Russian River and Redwoods. The park is loacted at 17828 Orchard Ave in Guerneville, CA  it is a popular destination for families.

 

The Russian River Recreation and Parks Department board memebrs would like to give a BIG THANK YOU to The Charles A. Raneri Revocable Living Trust for their generous donation of the new playstructure and Kaboom for their amazing kid designed playspace!   

We also want to thank:

Praxis Architecture for helping to make this dream of resdesigning the space to a new beautiful neighborhood park a reality. 

Zero Waste Sonoma for proiving new trash rectaples and water fountain/fill station.

Emerisa's Gardenfor their extremely generous donation of over $400 of plants, given without hesitation as they cheered on the project. Emerisa's Garden is family-run, locally owned, and they showered us with genuine enthusiasm because they care deeply about community improvement projects and the role plants can play in inspiring the next generation to steward our environment. 

Renee's Garden: Thank you for donating Scatter Garden seeds, which will be installed to attract pollinators and offer water-wise blooms. 

Urban Tree Farm: Thank you for providing us with a 10% discount and a delightful selection of mature plants.

And a BIG THANK YOU to the community volunteers who helped to make this new park happen! We appreciate you.