Westchester Park

Westchester Park in a hidden gem, this park is home of L.A.X this park has something to offer for anybody ages 1 to 99 yrs. they offers a variety of programs throughout the year, after school club provides free transportation from schools to her park, pre-​school programs, sport programs are offered for boys and girls ages 5 – 15 yrs. flag football, basketball, lacrosse, t-​ball, 5-​pitch, minors, baseball, soccer, two inside gyms, 5 picnic area, with barbeque pits resv. reguired, 3 baseball diamonds (lighted) 1 multipurpose field (lighted) outdoor basketball court (unlighted) children’s in closed play area, skate park (lighted) and a seasonal pool. Westchester park is conveniently located next to Westchester 18– hole, 4,364 golf course, a tennis court, a library, every wed. is farmer market, they also have carnivals and parades thought out the year, or you can do what I do sometime just lay on your back on the grass and you will be surprise what your eyes can see as the airplanes landing on the north runway, its pretty much safe here its patrol by the Airport Police, Los Angeles Police, and the L.A. County Sheriff.

Ahhhhh! Westchester Park (formally known as Westchester Recreation Center), is an absolute jewel and wholly underappreciated recreation area in the City of Los Angeles’s excellent park system, and I love this place, and I visit daily. Though I have to admit I live four blocks away so I’m an unreserved, totally bias supporter.
Even with my personal bias for Westchester Park, the facility offers more fun stuff than most of LA’s city parks including but not limited to: Golf, Tennis, Public Pool, Library, Softball and Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Picnic Area, Senior Center, After School Programs, Wednesday Farmers Market, and a great little Skate Park. And that’s just scratching the surface of what makes the this park wonderful.
It is close to LAX so I guess that is why it is somewhat underappreciated, but like the Westchester neighborhood in general, the park is swiftly changing. Westchester is no longer an out of the way sleepy LA suburb. It has transformed into one of the hottest area’s in the city, and for better or worse that’s what’s up here.
Some come and enjoy it while you can, just keep it chill, since I have to work tomorrow.

Like that it is fenced in. I like that my older child can skate while I watch my younger one in the play yard. Bathrooms are usually clean. Parking is OK.

Lovely park… with football field, there are restrooms and barbecuing pits as well. Lots of people gather here in the evening for a nice family time. They have comfortable benches where you can sit and enjoy lone time or with family. The area around the park is brightly lit and there is no fear of being in the dark. Lushy grass cover the entire area of the park and its a pleasant sight.

They’ve made so many improvements! This is such a spacious park. Stuff to do for everyone. And it’s right next door to a library. So if you have kids with you, you can easily pack a lunch and spend the day in the area.

This is THE park for all of the youth little league games so there are great baseball diamonds, soccer/​football fields, big graduated metal benches, and bathrooms here. Granted you’re reminded of how close it is to LAX at times but you get used to it!
Since the park district does some pretty good fundraising getting support from local businesses, the diamonds are well kept up with a fancy scoreboard and score keeping booth and snack stand.

A nice spacious park in the city! It was a nice sunny Saturday in November. Parking was easy and the baseball field was empty, just what I needed to get some batting practice in. I didn’t explore the rest of the park, but I do plan to come back and play some soccer next time.

A pocket park is a small park accessible to the general public. Pocket parks are frequently created on a single vacant building lot or on small, irregular parcels of land. A good example of an urban pocket park would be the triangular patch of grass that is across the street from the In & Out Burger Restaurant at 9149 S. Sepulveda near Lincoln Blvd.
Here you have a nice oasis of greenery with a large grassy lawn, trees, a «Welcome to LAX» sign and the opportunity to enjoy the loads of airplanes using the north runways on a short final landing. These monsters zoom right above you so close that you can see the passengers hungrily eying the In & Out Burger across the street!
Plane nerds and aviation buffs clamor to go to this park for the awesome and unique views afforded the observer from this vantage point. The day I was there last week, it was very windy and quite breezy so I just sat in my car parked along the street and read while my son went crazy with his new Nikon. Still it is nice that the great concrete jungle of L.A. sees fit to sneak a nice little piece of greenery in here for people to be able to recreate on, gawk at jumbo jets, and bring their delicious In & Out Burgers over to enjoy in a somewhat more peaceful setting then the Hamburger Hell across the street. 1 Unilocal STAR for not having benches or picnic tables to use for dining while eyeballing Air France landing directly over your Double Double and Strawberry Shake!