Arroyo Grande Sports Complex

The Arroyo Grande Sports Complex is where everybody is a winner. When you walk or play in the Arroyo Grande Sports Complex you are spending time in a first-​rate 56-​acre park that offers recreational activities for everybody including dogs.
The Arroyo Grande Sports Complex is a beautiful park that is a sports complex in name. There is over and above sports facilities. When I walked on the walking paths, I strolled on a landscape of rolling hills bordered by blooming plants and lush landscaping with distant views of Sunset Station and Frenchman Mountain. Within the park, the Pittman Wash sliced through the park causing two distinct Park lands connected by a pedestrian bridge. To the north I set eyes on a small playground and softball fields. To the south and east of Pittman Wash, I explored the majority of the park. When I set foot midway in the park, I laid eyes on a directory and map displaying all the points of interest. Supporting the directory were green flags on poles pointing to a destination. They looked just like the flags beside a pole position race track. I didn’t need directories. I was here between hiking the Pittman Wash Trail and Cornerstone Park to walk the walking paths at my own leisure. The park was sparsely populated. From the higher elevations from the south softball fields parking lot, I saw a few teenagers at the BMX park and nobody playing horseshoes. The softball fields north and south of the Pittman Wash were quiet. The basketball courts had some action, little children played in the state of the art playground, and dogs were playing in the dog park.
In the Las Vegas valley, it seems that there is a great statue at the heart of many of the winning parks. Asein Sister Park has the charming statue, Terraza Park has the road runner, and this park has the baseball mit statue. The baseball mit statue makes sense considering that the National Softball Association nominated the Arroyo Grande Sports Complex as 2011 and 2012 Outstanding Park.
Everybody has a sport of choice and my sport is hiking. If I ran a National Urban Hiking Association I would nominate it as a 2015 Hiking Hub Park. The Arroyo Grande Sports Complex is a genuine trailhead that serves the Pittman Wash Trail, Union Pacific Trail into Cornerstone Park, and the Stephanie Street Walking Trail. As a matter of fact when I was hiking on the westernmost walking path parallel to Arroyo Grande Drive, the sign said Pittman Wash Trail. The Pittman Wash Trail climbs over the bridge separating the sports complex west where it provides a hike free of crossings under Arroyo Grande, Valle Verde, Green Valley Parkway, and Pecos Road to Wigwam. This hike is around 3 miles each way. Facing south, the walking path that says Pittman Wash Trail develops into the incomplete Union Pacific Railroad Trail. Currently it crosses under American Pacific Drive and the Union Pacific Railroad where it feeds into Cornerstone Park. Eventually the Union Pacific Railroad Trail will extend southeast under Interstate 215 where it will connect to the existing paved trail from Acacia Demonstration Gardens to the vicinity of Railroad Pass. As a hiker, I rate Arroyo Grande Sports Complex highly for accessibility to miles of urban hiking and bicycling.
I also rate it highly on being a well maintained park. The City of Henderson is doing a good job keeping it relatively free of graffiti and vandalism. They could do better with surveillance cameras.
When I walked through the Arroyo Grande Sports Complex in conjuction with hiking on the Pittman Wash Trail and the walking paths of Cornerstone Park, I was spending time in a sports complex that made me feel like a winner. Essentially Arroyo Grande Sports Complex is the winner, and I present it with a trophy of a four star rating.

I love this park. It’s a short walk from where I live. It’s great to hang at the park or catch a local game. The park is always clean and we’ll lit.

My daughter LOVES this park! It is HUGE with a ton of stuff for kids to do. They have ginormous slides (that unfortunately, the stairs to get to them is right on the sidewalk by the main road) that the kids adore. They have brand new park equipment, so all the slides, swings, jungle gyms, & substrate is all in great condition. You never see «creeps» hanging around so huge plus as a parent.
There is a decent sized basketball court next to the playground so every now & again you get to hear some language creep across into the playground but not so bad.
All the way on the complete opposite side, near the baseball diamonds, there is a smaller playground, & I do mean smaller. Still cute, clean, & new.
For the older kids, there is a bike area. Full of dirt mounds for jumping & doings tricks. Couldn’t tell you the condition, it’s not my cup of tea.
Nearby that is a horseshoe «field”(?), & apparently people still play horseshoes. Never knew.
Now to the reason I am giving this a 3 star instead of 5 — the dog park. It is atrocious. It is all dirt & dust. Completely dry. No water barrels put out for the dogs to drink. Just the drinking fountain, which some dogs are frightened of. No toys put out for the dogs. It’s just dirty & put in like it was an afterthought. I have only been to this dog park a handful of times & my dog is miserable every single time. She has no other dogs to play with because they’re down the road at a much greener & well-​kept dog park.
All in all, this is a good park for your kids (if you enjoy sitting with no shade) while your kids play, but definitely do not bring your dogs here.

Everything you could need at a park. I am here 5 days a week and always see staff around maintaining it. Clean and peaceful. Best park I’ve seen in Vegas altogether. (Not that that says much). Better than Desert Breeze. Picnics and every sport. Can’t complain!

This park is all sorts of awesome. It has softball/​baseball fields, basketball courts, horseshoe pits, kiddie playground, disc golf, dog enclosures, a BMX bike track, a dirt bike track, and walking paths with a cool bridge going over the wash. All this in a huge plot of land that actually has some terrain i.e. not just completely flat.
At the same time, the park feels like it still needs a lot of work. The areas are all disparate like they were just thrown together with no planning. It would be nice to have a clear circuit for a walking path. But those are minor complaints. For a random park that I just decided to visit while driving by, this was a great find.

My husband plays at these fields. Close parking and some grassy areas. Nice clean stands and small food concessions. My favorite part is it’s not too dusty like some other softball fields we go to watch at.

Besides the fact that they charge $ 5 per rider now at a PUBLIC park the «lady in charge» said they are open till two. My son gets out of school at two. What good does that do me?

They should call Henderson «park city», with so many parks this one is definitely one of the biggest and best all around. It sucks that some Punk douche bags have vandalized parts of the park, that a side it is still very beautiful. The park offers 2 playgrounds, big slides, baseball fields, bmx track, dog park, nice walking paths, basketball courts, horse shoe pits. This park has a little something for everybody to do, great place to bring the kids or to just go for a stroll on a beautiful day. If you really want to get a good workout, you can take the tunnel to Cornerstone park.

Omg ! I have driven past this place for years and never knew how big and awesome it is. I usually go to Whitney Ranch Rec Trail when I want to excersise outdoors but This place is huge ! I honestly just thought it was a sports park for baseball. It’s way more than that ! Multiple fields for baseball, soccer, etc. They also have multiple trails that go around the park, they have a kids park, basketball courts, dog parks and bmx paths. We did interval cardio consisting of jogging & walking and I definitely enjoyed seeing all that this park has to offer. I will be back soon. Going to rotate in outdoor excercise in my weekly routine !

Best inner-​city park in Clark County. They have everything there. Sports fields, play grounds, trails, a wash flowing through the park, and a BMX bike track.
The track was is a lot of fun for the kids. It isn’t too crowded and the varying jumps can accommodate beginners as well as advanced bikers. Make sure to wear helmets and pads (at least jeans), the surface is unforgiving.

I like this park. I walk my dog here almost everyday. The baseball fields, basketball courts, and new play-​area are really nice.
However the addition of the BMX tracks and dog parks just are not up to par. None of the lights are working on the trails and it is un groomed and disorganized.
I hope they are not finished and just taking their sweet time… oh wait it is the City!

UPDATE. .. reopened! Complete with the big slides (thank goodness, my boy loves these), a huge bridge between playgrounds and ball fields, a grassy knoll, a big baseball glove, great basketball courts with fencing so the balls no longer fly across the playground and more. They did some very nice landscaping and the bridge is awesome! Back to 5 stars for us!

Horseshoes too! Every Monday night at 7pm for action in the pits.

I’ve driven past this place a lot when I lived in Green Valley before but never stopped by. Since moving back to the area from Summerlin, I’ve been exploring all that Green Valley has to offer to help ease my decision on moving back here.
I first visited last week to ride the Pittman Wash Trail on my bike as part of the Discover our Trails Scavenger Hunt. This place is ah-​mah-​zing (as Penny would say from Happy Endings). Lots of ballparks, playgrounds, basketball courts, a BMX bike course and Pittman Wash Trail. This place is definitely on my weekend list moving forward for bike riding and relaxing the work week away.
If you haven’t ventured this gem before, put it on your to do list. Very nice job, city of Henderson! ;)

Nice sports complex for baseball, softball, etc. My son has his tee ball games and practice here. There are 9 fields. 1 – 4 are closer to Santiago and 5 – 9 are closer to American Pacific. So if you know what field you are going to you the parking isn’t to bad. There are signs on both roads with arrows to fields. There is lots of bleachers and some grass areas where you can put chairs or lay a blanket. They have a snack bar opening during games. Prices are very inexpensive, everything $ 3 or under. There is also a small playground for the kiddos.

Looking around at businesses in the area and the many vacant buildings that exist, I’d say that Henderson has suffered through our current economic downturn more than most.
With that being said, this sports complex is up-​kept well and very well maintained. There are a few baseball /​softball fields along with plenty of areas for which the kids can play.
For a community park, the bathrooms are remarkably clean and stocked well. The snack bar offers plenty of menu options, all with quite reasonable pricing.
My only complaint would be the parking. Because of the layout and size, it is a bit of a hike from your car to the field. No biggie… I love walking in above 100 degree weather.

This is a beautiful Sports Complex for Baseball/​Softball/​Kickball.
I played in a one day Softball tournament in this complex and had a blast. Although, there is barely any shade anywhere; well it all depends how the sun is shining down but boy did I get a tan! The bleachers do have tents over them, but the dugouts aren’t shadeful.
There are a number of fields to play on so this complex is definitely great for tournaments. There are bleachers for each field so there is also room for your family and friends to come out and watch. The parking lot is kind of far from some of the fields so its easy to say there isn’t central parking.
The snack shack is awesome! $ 1.50 for hot dogs? What a steal! They have other snacks like chips, muffins, chocolate bars, etc. Great if you’re hungry between games for sure!
Their restroom sinks don’t work, but the water fountains just outside are there to wash your hands after you pee.
Unilocal Challenge! Started 8÷20÷2011 (⁵³⁄₃₆₅).

Very nice clean park with awesome little league baseball fields. Bathrooms on sight. Running trail leaves from here and runs along the wash.

I don’t know how to review a city. I guess I should look at all the superficial things I can see from driving and stopping here periodically.
The streets are clean, parks are maintained, things are cool, and people seem nice.
My only gripe is that it’s so far from everything else!