Great park for kids and families. Children need to get out and play with other children... Bring…read moreyour child here and watch the magic happen that is childhood. Also, they have a little snack bar on site, bring a few bucks in cash and really make the kids happy. lol I usually bring sandwiches and chips and drinks to share. We love it here!

Love this park. Love seeing all the birds and water feature . Also tons of turtles!!! Small kinds…read moreplay area and bigger kids play area. Basketball court. Walking path . Restrooms. Great balanced park.

Enjoyed a relaxing afternoon in this peaceful and serene garden. Listening to the water, and seeing…read morethe peacocks, koi fish, geese, squirrels, birds, and dragonflies takes you away from the hustle and bustle of the day. I purchased an annual pass for $50.00 and allows guests and a photographer pass. Looking forward to coming again with friends.

It is worst Japanese garden that I've seen ever. Small, dry,…read morefrayed garden surrounded by roads from all sides. You cannot find a peaceful place and immerse yourself in the sounds of nature.

Awesome playgrounds. Cute race car track in the back too for small toddlers or those with striders…read more Super fun, bathrooms are okay but kids enjoyed it!

This is a great family friendly park. I like that there are three separate playground areas built…read morefor different age groups. Overall, this is a nice park.

Lots of fun for the kids! 3 year old granddaughter loved water and the different playgrounds…read moreavailable along with paths to walk around and explore! The tunnel was fun to hear an echo!

Loved how well this park works for all ages. There is also so much space and are so many options…read morefor many kids. There is a kids playground area, a bench area, bathrooms, swings and musical area, basketball court, and baseball field. Lots of space, everything seems in good condition. I think my only complaint is about the bathrooms. They were mostly cleaned, but the soap dispensers all seemed broken and there were spitwads all over the ceiling. It's a bit of a trek for us but we will be back!!

Just trying to get out of the house this morning after my coffee and nail appointment. The park is…read moredirectly across the street from where get my nails done so I left my car in the parking lot and walked across the street to the park. Even though there were a lot of people there, it was really relaxing just to walk around in my own little world. There was a nice breeze blowing this morning, so it felt really good just to get out of the house walk past the dog park. It was super cute, I just had a nice relaxing morning walking around seeing the sites and people watching. I totally need to do this more after I get my nails done.

This is a fantastic place for a walk, kids to play on a playground or watch the ducks, a run down…read moreinto the cow pasture to visit the river or out on the Eaton trail. And also the paid entry Shinzen gardens are well worth the visit. Woodward park truly has something for everybody.

My family had a wonderful day exploring the botanical garden. If you stop inside the visitor center…read morebefore the garden they have an activity for the kids. My boys really enjoyed the list of things to look for while exploring. On the list we found bugs, butterflies, lizards, flowers and a few more. The garden has a few shady spots that were much needed for a break from the heat. They also have a little section of music instruments to play. We didn't get to try them but someone was playing a beautiful melody while we were there. When we were done exploring the beautiful garden we headed back to the visitor center. The boys both got stickers for completing their activities list. Inside the visitor center they also sell some beautifully crafted cups, soaps, honey and other trinkets. My boys picked out a few toys and I go their honey. The honey is actually really delicious.

When we first moved back to Clovis, we stayed with my mother-in-law and she lived right across the…read morestreet from the botanical garden and park. My kids loved coming here. It was always a great way to spend some outdoor time and get fresh air. The new building in the botanical garden is incredible and 100% community funded! That means the volunteers and donors of this space fully own everything! With zero government red tape, they're able to fast track art events, adult ED classes, garden parties, and create jobs for the community. The new building is beautiful and comes with a small gift shop, selling local artist pieces, indoor meeting/recreation area, and an shaded outdoor patio. The patio is public and available for anybody who is walking the trail. We actually ate our lunch here, before walking the botanical garden trail for a nature scavenger hunt. They also cleaned up a few of the trails and opened up a few more areas for outdoor events. This is a great addition to the Clovis community and if you haven't been yet, get yourself here and support this beautiful botanical garden!

This nice little neighborhood park located in North West Fresno really has blossomed over the…read moreyears. There is a playground that has lots of room for several different groups of kids to play. In addition to that there are several fields where kids and soccer groups play games especially on the weekends. People come to go play soccer there is also an area for volleyball and basketball. Newest to the addition is a gated dog park which gives families with dogs an opportunity to bring them to the park and have a secure place for the dogs to play while children play in the rest of the park. This park is seen is easily from the street and it is in a nice upscale neighborhood overall I recommended it for birthday parties and medium size events as well. I have seen people have weddings, family unions, church events, and coming up a neighborhood watch meeting.

Nice park! Clean, lots of grass. Big parking lot with multiple handicap spots. Fenced in dog park…read more Near Liddell School on Alluvial.

This park is our favorite in the summer because of the splash pad. It's perfect for younger kids…read moreand so fun to watch them. It also has small dog run, skate park, large grassy area, and two playgrounds for different ages.

This park we really love cause of the water park , skate park, basketball court and much more …read more It's definitely showing age and is in need of repairs to the point I almost gave it 3 stars . I also wish they posted time and days the water park would be on. They used to if you looked at the city website but I can't find it now. This park has a lot to offer, it has an inclosed area for dogs to play and a big field to play soccer or tag football. The play ground needs to be updated and better thought out. Yet, still nice to have for those hot summer days .

I recently put together a fairly substantial road trip to see a bunch of California I'd never…read moreproperly explored, including a handful of stops, like this one, to see things that had gone on mental my list to see "eventually" like a decade ago, that I decided to cross off as many of as I could, at once. Honestly, I didn't entirely know what to expect - I'd seen pictures of the place, but pictures don't do the *scale* of the place justice. Indeed, having now taken the tour of what is left, the most mindboggling thing I learned about it is, by the time anyone had started working to preserve what was left, a majority of the land Forestiere had converted to his home, had long been sold to developers, who just filled it all back in. It was originally even several times larger! Anyway, the part I did already know, but it was still impressive to see in person: from ground level, it hardly looks like anything, just a standard small orchard, if that. But as soon as you descend, you can see, and *feel*, instantly why he built it. Unlike the sprawling Winchester house I originally had mentally compared it to, which was built by a rich person slowly going insane, in this case, it was built by someone with fairly modest wealth (indeed, when he started, no wealth whatsoever), just loads of time and the willingness to learn how to construct and then, for the rest of his life, continuously improve, a wonderfully air conditioned house using no electricity (it was a hundred million degrees outside the weekend we were there, and a perfect temperature once the tour started), that everything he built, was built to make it a more comfortable place for himself to live and grow citrus, as he slowly McGuyvered himself a megamansion out of nothing but primitive tools, a couple donkeys, and decades worth of time and effort. Super cool! (Well, we did learn, eventually he realized what he was building could be turned into a hotel, and had started working on that when he died. It's too bad he didn't complete it - I'd have loved to stay in that hotel!) It's even more impressive that, while it eventually turned into quite a home, he *started* digging it as a temporary fix to try to grow his citrus, after he moved to Fresno hoping to farm citrus, so when he discovered the topsoil sucked too much to grow citrus trees, he dug deeper down, planted citrus there, and built an underground citrus grove so successfully, with fruit of all shapes and sizes, that a majority are still the same citrus trees growing there now - and they look *seriously* juicy. I just wish they could sell them to us when they were ripe - I wanted to eat one! (I asked - they aren't legally allowed to sell produce to consumers themselves. Every once in a while some local business will buy produce and make snacks they can sell themselves, but mostly they just have to let the produce fall naturally and decompose back into the soil.) I wouldn't feel the need to come back now that I've seen it - it's not like anything is likely to *change* at this point (unless maybe they eventually could get a license to sell the citrus grown there?) - but it was definitely worth making the detour to see the place finally. p.s. Parking was not *nearly* as much of a big deal as I'd worried it would be. The website indicates that due to construction on the next big street over, it's street parking, so get there early. Turns out the street they said to park in, is basically a glorified alley - admittedly, we were the first tour of the day, it might get busier later, but there was *tons* of free parking. I was mostly worried about our car being broken into, being in what is now a fairly sketchy-looking neighborhood with zero foot traffic most of the time. It was fine, though, obviously.

Shoutout to Kelsey, our awesome tour guide. She walked us through the Forestiere's underground…read moregarden and spoke proudly about its history. My family came here to visit not knowing what to expect. It was a great experience learning how Forestiere built these tunnels so intentionally and with innovation. The guided tour is about 60 minutes and includes a lot of walking with some stairs, so be prepared with comfy shoes. However, there's also benches in the tunnels if you need a quick seat. The tour ends in the grand ballroom which connects to the gift shop. There you can find citrus sorbet made from the fruits of this garden. I had to give that a taste and it was sweet and zesty. I went home with some postcards to send to friends too. This place is also California State National Landmark No. 916! You must add it to your bucket list of adventures.