Dailard Park

Tours & AttractionsVerified

About

Dailard Park in Allied Gardens covers a 5.1-acre parcel at 6618 Cibola Road in the 92120 ZIP, jointly developed by the City of San Diego and the San Diego Unified School District as a neighborhood-scale green space serving the residential blocks between Waring Road and Laurel Ridge Road. A wide open-grass field anchors the center of the park, used for informal soccer, flag football, and catch sessions by families in the Allied Gardens community who walk over from the surrounding mid-century single-family homes. The playground structure includes swings, slides, and climbing features sized for both toddlers and school-age children, set on a paved loop path that doubles as a walking-and-jogging circuit around the park's perimeter. Dogs are permitted on leash, and the Allied Gardens dog-owner crowd rotates between Dailard's open turf and the fenced areas at nearby Princess Del Cerro Park, with grooming handled at Suds N Pups Dog Grooming and Wash, Inc. on Waring Road. Drinking fountains and shaded benches line the walking path, and the flat terrain makes the park fully accessible for strollers and wheelchair users. Allied Gardens sits south of Cowles Mountain and east of the I-8 freeway interchange at Waring Road, a residential pocket defined by community parks, small-business storefronts on Waring, and proximity to the Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center campus. The park functions as an overflow practice field for youth sports leagues coordinated through the Allied Gardens Recreation Center on Greenbrier Avenue, which was built in 1961 after the Marietta Broadcasting Company relocated its radio towers from the site. Post-park lunch traffic from Dailard's family crowd feeds into Brothers Family Restaurant on Waring Road, where the weekend brunch menu draws from across the Allied Gardens and Del Cerro neighborhoods. The Cibola Road entrance provides free street parking on both sides, and the park's north-facing slope catches afternoon shade from mature eucalyptus and pepper trees lining the property edge.