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Belgatos Park in Los Gatos - A Great Place to Relax, Ride Horseback, Play, Hike, or Mountain Bike

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Real Estate Agent with Christie's International Real Estate Sereno 01153805

One of the many trails in Belgatos Park in Los Gatos, CABelgatos Park is the neighborhood park for the east Los Gatos neighborhoods of Surmont, Belgatos, and Belwood of Los Gatos. It's also a "regular" Town of Los Gatos park but a large one. So it tends to draw people from well beyond the immediate area's boundaries.

Not only is Belgatos Park big, it's got a lot of things going for it. There are the usual things, like a fun play structure with slides and swings, some restrooms (don't take them for granted - they are fairly rare among town parks), and a main lawn area.

But wait...there's more!

Belgatos Park also has an "upper meadow" area, loads of benches, and a creek that winds through the park with cool looking wooden bridges crossing over it.

Even more, there are scads of trails that connect with some of the open space preserve areas. If you want to explore you can be busy for hours, whether on foot, mountain bike, or horseback!

Recently I've been experimenting with video (I got a Flip Video about 2 weeks ago) and did a post incorporating some of that on my Live In Los Gatos blog. If you'd like to see the video, and a link to more pics and a slideshow, please visit my post:

Belgatos Park in East Los Gatos - a Great Place to Hike, Ride Horses, Picnic, Play or Just Spend Time

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Ray Saenz
Exit Realty Laredo - Laredo, TX
Homes for Sale in Laredo, TX - Texas, Realtor

Mary,
YOu are the best when it comes with this kind of information your buyers should be very happy with all information you share :)
Ray Saenz

 

Sep 03, 2008 04:53 PM
Tracy Pina, REALTOR, EcoBroker
Intero Real Estate Services - Los Gatos, CA

Mary - great to see your post!  I'm showing the newest listing in the neighborhood tomorrow on Belhaven - great house, fabulous backyard - and one of my selling points was going to be this park!  Thanks for post.  / Tracy Pina

Sep 03, 2008 05:47 PM
Michael Sahlman
www.HomesForVIPs.com - Keller Williams Realty - Miami Beach, FL
e-PRO - Miami Beach Florida Luxury Homes

Hi Mary, this post makes me want to spend the day in the park!

Sep 03, 2008 11:03 PM
Laura Cerrano
Feng Shui Manhattan Long Island - Locust Valley, NY
Certified Feng Shui Expert, Speaker & Researcher

Mary, The park is lovely, I would be walking for hours in there!  And I loved the video...I keep saying "soon" but I don't know if I'll be able to do it :(

Sep 04, 2008 01:35 AM
Leander McClain
North East, MD
Cecil & Harford County Realtor
Mary, what a beautiful park. This is definitely the type of place I would love to spend some down time in. Thanks for sharing Leander
Sep 04, 2008 02:42 AM
Mary Pope-Handy
Christie's International Real Estate Sereno - Los Gatos, CA
CRS, CIPS, ABR, SRES, Silicon Valley

Ray - thanks for your kind words!

Tracy - cool! The community pool is a great feature too. I also previewed that home for my buyers, but it's got more yard then they'd want, and not nearly enough closet space (or even wall space for furniture) in the master bedroom. I think we'd have to bump into the adjacent bedroom to make another closet for the master. But it is a lovely home. Very cool family room!

Michael - pics never quite do it justice but I'm glad you like them

Carole - thanks. The video quality strikes me as awfully poor but I don't know what to do about that. Maybe it's better on other sites rather than You Tube??

Leander - thank you. I'd love to go all the way to the top of the hills...on horseback :)

Sep 04, 2008 03:04 AM
Jeff McLaughlin ~ Silicon Valley Realtor
Alain Pinel Realtors ~ Los Gatos Ca - Los Gatos, CA

Mi mary. you sure are a hard workin gal I tell ya! I haven't been up to that park in years so thanks for the reminder of what a great selling point that is for E LG! Are you having fun and luck with delving into vidoes, podcasts, etc.? It's a whole other world for SEM don't ya think?

Sep 04, 2008 02:43 PM
Mary Pope-Handy
Christie's International Real Estate Sereno - Los Gatos, CA
CRS, CIPS, ABR, SRES, Silicon Valley

Jeff - thanks - yup, I'm writing a bunch lately. You should grab your family and head to Belgatos for sure! Bring your camera as it's a great place to snap some pics. As for videos, I am not very good at them so far. Will keep trying and see if I can't make something blogworthy :)

Sep 04, 2008 04:47 PM