largest single facility
Cuesta Park, Mountain View
12 courts
Open 6 a.m.–11 p.m.; walk-on play and advance online reservations are offered.
South Bay + Peninsula public court inventory · 20 August 2026
77 public tennis facilities surfaced across the two-county corridor
Official city and county pages identify 77 distinct facilities in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Court counts are published for 54 of them, totaling at least 208 courts; blank fields below mean the responsible agency did not state the detail on the pages found.
77
distinct public facilities
208+
courts with published counts
20
cities represented
54
facilities with court counts
Published court capacity clusters in Mountain View and Palo Altoknown courts only · blanks excluded
Three high-capacity options
largest city inventory
Mountain View
35 courts
Six distinct sites have official counts, with schedules or reservations linked from the city tennis page.
largest free network found
Redwood City
16 courts
Seven counted sites are stated as free and first come, first served; lighted courts generally run to 10 p.m.
What to know before going
Drop-in is common. Campbell and Redwood City explicitly use first-come rules, while Menlo Park mixes drop-in with reservable courts.
Reservation policy varies sharply. Los Altos uses a downloadable application; Mountain View and Milpitas link online systems; Palo Alto generally limits reservations to club and USTA use.
“Free” should not be assumed. Redwood City and Campbell explicitly state free use, while Menlo Park, San Carlos, Los Altos and the Santa Clara Tennis Center publish or reference reservation charges.
Unknown is preserved. A blank is not an inference: many official park directories confirm tennis courts but omit hours, fees, counts, or booking instructions.
Facility-by-facility directory
| Facility | City | Courts | Hours | Fees | How to book / use | Source |
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Method: official municipal and county pages were searched across San Mateo and Santa Clara counties on 20 August 2026. Private clubs, hotel/apartment courts, school-only sites, pickleball-only sites and duplicate facility-name variants were excluded. “208+” sums only explicit tennis-court counts; it is a lower bound. Confirm same-day closures, programming and pricing with the linked agency.