Charles Hernets: This park is amazing. Why don’t they make more like this. You can really spend all day here from the awesome playground, splash pad, picnic tables, sand pit, and perfect grass with plenty of trees for shade. So far the best public park I have found. Amazing for birthdays or events.
Anthony Chen: This is a fabulous park with split personality. Part is a large sports complex but there are also different playgrounds, a flat, paved accessible walking trail, and side foot and mountain biking trails. We spent most of our time on the trails including by the ravine (and salmon stream). Even though it was a sunny afternoon, there were lots of birds including 4-5 woodpeckers in a stand of oak trees, red-winged blackbirds by the wetlands, and red-tailed hawks and turkey vultures riding the thermals. Saw a couple beaver dams. The paved trail circumnavigates the park and subdivisions so you can choose what kind of experience you want: active sports, urban trail, or rustic trail.
There is also a community center and the Maidu Museum on site, but we did not send time there
Bette Barr: There are major interactive exhibits for youth and adults. Ask an attendant to install a piano roll so you can hear old time music as the keys move up and down. Be sure to drop marbles down the shute (see photo). And use your muscle power to play an accordian box. Across the hall, request the model train to be activated. This is a real treat in the former Carnegie Library. Please be sure to leave a donation if youre able!
James T: Very little for babies, sparing in shade, but a very well developed park with full sand pit volleyball court, basketball, and many slides for little to big kids with a South Pacific island vibe.
