Recreation Park

Beautiful, big park.
I once held a company picnic there. Making reservations was simple and painless. The barbecue and picnic areas were spacious. They easily accommodated my staff of 50+ people.
The parking lot is enormous, so you don’t have to worry about finding street parking.
Off the top of my head, they have baseball fields, tennis courts, and basketball courts. There were also plenty of large, open fields, which allowed me to organize games of soccer and dodge ball.
Overall, it’s a fantastic place to relax.

What a gem! Picnic tables and bbq grills galore, a super large fire ring for a super large group, tennis, baseball, basketball two playgrounds clean bathroom facilities. Plenty of parking all around the place… What we loved this trip was the music over the loud speakers during s baseball game. Players and their positions were announced when they came up to bat. What a beautiful day! Our only spoiler was a little kid (9 – 10) harassing my granddaughter, asking if she wanted to «make out», she’s 7! I was 15 ft away! We believe he was attending an after school program and dutifully went inside when other kids told him the teacher was there.

Big park, parking is easy to find on 3 sides of the park. Always having great sporting events and activities for the kids. 2 separate play areas 1 for the big kids and thee other for toddlers! They have an awesome firework show and carnival every July 4^th!
They have a outdoor roller hockey rink, outdoor basketball courts, tennis courts and volleyball courts. Baseball/​Softball fields! Handicap accessible all around the park. Great for having birthday parties in large picnic areas with a camp ground setting and soooo much more.

Cute park. Areas for both little kids and big kids. Some parts of the surface area are cracking a lot but lots of fun all around. Good shade too

El Segundo is «the» hidden gem of Los Angeles; perhaps in all of Southern California. I had the pleasure of living here for almost 7 years, and one of the biggest attractions is the Recreation Park. SoCal, particularly beach towns such as El Segundo, are known for their incredible weather, and if you like the outdoors, you’ll love the Recreation Park. For only $ 15.00 per year ($ 10.00 when I was a resident), El Segundo residents get to enjoy all the perks of the park, which include, but are not limited to the following activities:
Tennis courts (7)
Paddle tennis courts
Horseshoes
Shuffleboard
Volleyball courts (2)
Handball court (1)
Racquetball courts (2)
Basketball courts
Roller hockey rink
Lawn bowling
Skate park
Ping pong tables
Softball fields /​soccer fields
Indoor & outdoor pools
Joslyn Center — for Senior and Older Adult related classes, programs and activities
Teen Center
Urho Saari Swim Stadium a.k.a. «The Plunge»
BBQ area
Whether you are 8 years old or 80, there is something here for almost everyone. I was childless while living in El Segundo, therefore, my activities in the park were mostly spent on one of the 7 tennis courts. My i.d. card let me reserve a court for 1 hour, and since my wife had a card too, we could reserve a court for 2 hours; which was more than enough time to play a 3-​set match.
If my son had been born while living there, I think we would have been there all the time. You can bring your kid (s) here and expose them to all kinds of different sports and/​or activities. Or you can simply let then run around and «jump their sillies out».
The park is staffed adequately and the grounds are well maintained, as the grass is always cut and there is never any trash on the ground or overflowing trash cans, ala City Park in New Orleans, LA. But I digress.
If you aren’t a resident of El Segundo, you’d never guess that such a large park exists in such a small town. Kudos to El Segundo. If you are moving to the SoCal area and are an outdoor person, I implore you to check out El Segundo’s Recreation Park.

Don’t let this park fool you into thinking it’s just ordinary, it’s not! With that said, it’s got levels of areas for different activities. It has Tennis, Basketball Courts, Roller Hockey, Racquetball and Lawn Bowling among many other activities. Community center also offers a variety of activities and classes, among other things as well.
The city holds seasonal town events & festivities throughout the year.
Parks great for families with wee ones or couples, and older folks to take a stroll in.
And finally, the best Fireworks display (if you don’t want to fool around with traffic at the beach to watch the Pier ones) that you can see anywhere in the city –that’s if you don’t mind walking or a short drive to it and/​or if you want the front view on field, which is very reasonable for bracelet/​entrance fee, I might add). If your watching from outside, be sure to bring a lawn chair & find a spot within neighborhood/​birds eye view of park and plan to get there early if driving, parking gets taken up fast! I live within a few blocks, so I was lucky to have a good spot up the street/​hill I live on.

Toddler park with plenty of swings, a sand box, a huge jungle gym for toddlers and a big fire truck that you can get on!

This is a great park in the El Segundo area. I came to Recreation for a birthday party a little while back and had a difficult time finding the party so I got a great tour of what the park had to offer! It is certainly used by the community and has a variety of grassy areas, sports fields, tennis courts, playgrounds. Tons of shade trees as well. I also really liked that the park wasn’t just flat, but had various levels with recreation areas.
We were at the top of one of these levels by some big shade trees. Not too far below us was an area with logs and stumps arranged for what looked like a fire pit or something. The restrooms were nearby, but were fairly smelly and dirty feeling. The only draw back I had coming here. I spent some good time in there too as I had just potty trained my daughter and wanted to make sure we had no accidents.
Not too far off there was a great playground area. They had a fenced in area for little ones like my kids, and then a larger play structure for older kids. It was nice to have the fenced in area as I knew my kids wouldn’t just take off when I wasn’t looking. I was surprised by how many older kids liked playing in the small playground, but they were respectful of the little kids so I didn’t have any issues.
As I live fairly far away from this park I likely would only come here if invited, but for folks in the area, it’s a great place to spend an afternoon with the kids.

Recreation Park may not be a classic like Central Park or Golden Gate Park, but what it lacks in fame it makes up for in charm. Pleasant grounds, lovely murals, and tons of recreation options. I live just two blocks away and love coming here for a walk with my boyfriend or for some time outside with a book.
The only downside is that the kids singing the national anthem before games are usually AWFUL. I’d donate money to help pay for singing lessons. Yeesh.

Excellent park. 5 Star. My one star is for the El Segundo Dept of Recreation and for a cluebag employee named Cody. Park policy for picnic tables/​bbqs is first come first serve unless booked under a reservation. Unfortunately, the city is too lazy to mark reserved tables for that day like every other city park I’ve been to. Long story short. 10am I show up and take a spot. No signs, no placards. Start my BBQ and cook and my 25 – 30 guests arrive. All good. Then at 1230 this cluebag Cody stops by to tell me I need to move because the spot is reserved. Im in the middle of cooking. Wtf? The lady that booked is super nice and says its okay for me to stay because the city did not set out cards or signs of the reservation. Cool lady. Problem solved right? Wrong. This jackass Cody calls the cops and of course I move my entire party to another spot and ditch my BBQ in progress. Real professional. Real organized. Nice work, tax dollars. Thx Cody ur going places.

We stopped here to wait out some time before a flight. We walked around the perimeter and were very impressed by the large, beautiful, and well-​kept park.
It seemed to have every facility you could think of: soccer, baseball, basketball, batting cages, tennis, horseshoes and cornhole (which they called something else).
If I could move my dream house across the street from any park/​rec center, it might be this one!

A good location to take your kids to play! Very safe and nice people around. There are lots of sports to play and the park is pretty big. My son had a blast!

I LEFT MY WALLET IN EL SEGUNDO!
Did you understand that reference? Look it up if you didn’t. It’s worth it.
Never accuse El Segundo of not having anything to do. Trust me; no one really thinks of El Segundo as a destination, but this place rivals Tokyo, rivals Vegas, rivals Big Bear, rivals The Big Apple… Yes, it’s true: El Segundo is the best vacation destination in America.
Er, well, sort of. Anyways, I don’t want to intimidate you or anything, so I’ll just continue with my review. This place truly has it all, and you can play basically any sport you want here. It’s insane what they offer here: ping pong areas, horseshoes, handball courts, and… everything.
I went here once a week after work to play basketball with my co-​workers on the outdoor courts they have here. I found that at that time that the courts weren’t full at all; in fact, there were always just a few people playing, and that was always good in the case that we wanted to run half-​court or full-​court games with even teams.
The people who play here range in skill; there are some really, really good high school kids that obviously don’t play on an organized team or anything yet are still insanely good at streetball, and there are middle-​aged guys who have that trademark old man game. One time, I played against this dude who had his little baby daughter with him, and the man could flat-​out shoot. I could have sworn it was, like, Stephen Curry or something, but I remembered that the Warriors were in Milwaukee that night (I made that up, but the guy was real).
But honestly, the courts here are a lot of fun, and they certainly have four sets of half-​court hoops and two hoops dedicated to full court games. The stanchions are made of stone but are angled such that you can’t really run into them full-​speed and crush your face in, and the nets are well-​kept and aren’t all mangled like a lot of other places I’ve seen. The rims are extremely hard, and so you’ll have to hit some pure shots in order to score; this should favor the big men and women in the post rather than shooters, but as on any court, the best players adapt.
The basketball courts are nearby the tennis courts and an awesome outdoor hockey rink, and the buzzer from the scoreboard is constantly buzzing during games. A nearby baseball diamond opens up into a huge outfield and grassy area, and to be honest, I haven’t even been able to explore the entire park yet. However, it’s just insane how large this place is, and it’s insane how it’s just tucked away in this El Segundo neighborhood.
Lastly, parking is quite easy; they have parking lots, and if that fails, you can park in the surrounding neighborhoods. Of course, you should be respectful of the residents and only park in areas that won’t inconvenience them.
Now I must go back; after all, I gotta pick up my wallet.

The park is perfect for sports, specially tennis! Plenty parking spots! El Segundo is awesome!

Such an amazing park. They offer free equipment to play ping pong, space to play tennis, basketball, throw a football, have a picnic, go for a run, people watch under a tree or lay out and soak up some sun. There’s a parking lot with plenty of spots and bleachers to watch others play if you like. This is a great park in la, one of my favorites.

This park is awesome!
I like coming here to play tennis. The courts are open to the public til 5:00PM. After that it’s only available to El Segundo residents and must reserve courts in advance.
Aside from tennis courts, there are basketball courts, soccer field, BBQ area, picnic tables and even a ping pong area as well.
The park is clean and well kept. Definitely a gem in the heart of El Segundo.

This park is wonderful for toddlers. It has a fenced in play area with a lot to do. My son enjoyed the see saw and the ride in fire truck structure the most. He also enjoyed the little tunnels on the climbing structure. The toddler area also features low swings, baby swings, a tiny half circle rock wall and the main structure with slides.
The park is large. It has tennis courts, built in ping pong tables, a baseball field, another kind of square field, and more. When we were there, we saw 2 large bounce houses set up for birthday parties.
The bathrooms were surprisingly nice. Think McDonald’s level. Still, this is much nicer than most park bathrooms.
They have a larger play structure for older kids that we did not check out.
We met a couple of very nice families that were warm and chatty. This is a cute park and definitely worth checking out with your little ones.

El Segundo has lots of little parks throughout the city, drive around a bit and you’ll see small, medium and large parks mixed in within the houses. The recreation park is the main center for baseball, basketball, tennis, skate/​hockey, volleyball, lawn bowling, horseshoes, kid’s playground, etc.
I signed up for a rec card ($ 10/​year I believe) and you can use it to check out what you need for the activity (basketball, horseshoes, etc.). They also have community trips to local places (San Antonio Winery, downtown) and some with farther destinations (Solvang, Chumash Casino).
If you live in El Segundo and enjoy outdoor activities, you must check it out.

Now that I live in the hood this is definitely my favorite park ever! There are a ton of events going on here year round including the famous El Segundo Easter egg hunt (which honestly is crazy! But popular) and the ES fireworks sponsored by Chevron typically.
Everything is here as it is a true community park-​roller hockey, tennis, baseball, softball, skate, lawn bowling, playground, table tennis, basketball, and lots of room to ride your scooters and bikes and rollerblades.
You can also have a party here and reserve a space. There is a fire pit you can reserve.
Like I said true community park, rare find these days!

Great little park… rephrase that, great BIG park!
this park is huge and accomodates all different type of ventures, activities and most of all, ages. there is virtually something for everyone who enjoys a good park experience. they have a baseball field, bball court, tennis courts, raquetball, lawn bowling, picnic areas complete with bbq grills, a toddler safe play area with rubber floors and lots and lots of open spaces. GO FLY A KITE!
we came by recently for the annual Easter Egg Hunt here put on by the parks department. two words… Awe. Some. the people here did a tremendous job with putting this escapade together. this was our first time being a part of it and we have to say that we can’t wait till next year. the event was very well organized. we had spotted the banners indicating the event date and location a week before while taking one of our walks. the day of the event was even more organized even amidst all the chaos that is «Toddler Terrors»! it was a sea of strollers and baby bjorns and sun hats and lattes out there!
communication and direction were tantamount to being able to enjoy this morning, and the staff here were on top of things. loud speakers, though it freaked out sofia at first, provided clear and concise info. big kids here, little kids there, walkers, crawlers etc etc. i can’t say enough about how well the event was put together. the hunt itself went smoothly. well, as smooth as getting 2, 3 and 4 year olds to do an activity can be. the kids were scattered and parents were chasing them down but so much fun. so much.
the sun was out, the air was crisp and grass was definitely greener on THIS side. we had a great time and will definitely be coming back to this park, eggs or not. :)