Lakewood Village has two parks and a large greenbelt. An regional park and nature reserve is less than two miles away.

The largest park in Lakewood Village is Lakewood Park, located at Lakechime Drive and Silverlake Drive, adjacent to Lakewood School. Lakewood Park opened in 1964 and was designed with a "Space Age" theme -- at that time, each Sunnyvale park had a unique theme -- but most of the thematic elements of the park have been lost over the years. Lakewood Park has two ball fields, a basketball court, two horseshoe pits, a multi-use field, reservable picnic and barbecue areas, two playgrounds, a swimming pool, two tennis courts, an outdoor skating rink, and two handball/racquetball courts.

The other park in Lakewood Village is Fairwood Park, located on Sandia Avenue and Oak Creek Way, adjacent to Fairwood School. Fairwood Park has a picnic and barbecue area, a playground, a bike path, a par course, and two sand volleyball courts.

Lakewood Village also has an 80 foot wide greenbelt that extends some 2.7 miles from east to west, covering nearly the entire breadth of the Village. Underneath the greenbelt runs the Hetch-Hetchy water system. Both are owned by the City of San Francisco, and the greenbelt property leased to the City of Sunnyvale. The greenbelt is called The John W. Christian Greenbelt -- named after the former Director of Sunnyvale’s Parks and Recreation Department who was instrumental in developing the bare-ground easement into a landscaped community resource. The greenbelt has a paved pedestrian and bicycle path with lighting and small rest areas along the way.

Sunnyvale Baylands Park is less than two miles north of Lakewood Village, on Lawrence Expressway and CA Route 237. Baylands Park is composed of 70 acres of developed parkland and an additional 105 acres of seasonal wetlands. The developed area has reservable picnic areas, playgrounds, walking and bicycle paths, and an amphitheater. Walking paths extend beyond the park into the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay Wildlife Refuge on miles of levies that are common throughout much of the south end of San Francisco Bay. Along the walking paths are some “overlook” points where visitors can observe the wildlife without disturbing their habitat.

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