Ponderosa Park

May X 7 months ago

The park is decent size and it has a nice playground area with a skate park adjacent and typical park restrooms next to the playground. Restrooms that apparently don't open until passed 10AM and they are freshly hosed down with water when they do so water is everywhere including the rim of the metal toilet bowl (with no actual seat or covers to sit down) and also the baby changing table. It was my first time, and coming from LA county where most parks have their returns opened by 9AM the latest, it was very inconvenient to have them open so late. I arrived before 8:30AM and asked one of the many gardeners what time the restrooms opened and was told at 9AM. The maintenance trucks pulled up at 9:34AM and then proceeded to clean them for 45 minutes or so. I the had to hold my pee for close to 2 hours. And there was a lot of activity at that time which makes it even more odd that they wouldn't be open sooner. Also, there was a lot of gardening activity and trucks pulling up and out constantly throughout the main paved walkthroughs and roads, all while several kids played in the playground next to it. Not sure why a park would be setup like that. Gardening takes place (at least on a Monday) well passed 10:30AM (to include spraying some form of chemical in the plants & planting new plants as Fall arrives) all while families are trying to enjoy the park. And the sprinklers on the park went off at around 9:45A which an unhoused woman seemed to enjoy as she got soaked during her walkthrough. I wouldn't recommend families to go in the earlier part of the day. But do recommend the playground and a kid mentioned they have a water park which was not on at that time.

Tanner Godfrey a year ago

Beautiful park! Plenty of shade and fun playground equipment. Bathrooms available. Skate park was awesome - although it looks like it may be used more for 3 year olds’ monster trucks. Baseball field and cookout/picnic areas available. Park felt safe and well maintained!

Crisis Release a year ago

This park pretty much has everything you could want in a public park. BBQ and picnic area, playground, exercise equipment, Baseball Diamond, walking and bike trail, skatepark, Bathrooms, etc.

Eric Kaeka a month ago

Nice little park. There's alot of playground equipment for the kids and a skatepark. The grass is well maintained and there's alot of shade trees to picnics under.

Charlotte Jorgensen 2 years ago

It looks a like a great place but it has a strange gap between big kid climbing and smaller kid play structures. There is only one slide that only a bigger kid can climb to. The dmaller kid stuff is just a play house. It is unique.