It makes me sad to see all of the liter at this park. Everytime I walk my dog I am always picking up trash. None of the rules posted are enforced. The soccer nets are torn. The metal stands are broken. The Parks Commission needs to do much better. Families, kids, all of us deserve to enjoy a nice safe clean park. Someone .....please help!! ​​ read more

If you need a kid's playground desperately. There is one. Careful!!! The padding is deceiving, it's a thin layer over a poured cement floor. So if your kid falls, it might be a hospital ride. Our daughter was on the monkey bars and fell right on her butt and we thought she broke her tail bone or compressed her spine. I've never seen her in such immobile agony. We will not go back. Skate park is great for kids that skate. The rest isn't that nice or pretty, we are playground junkies and take our kids everywhere. This is the worst one in western North Carolina that we have been to. read more

The park is fine, but quite small. There is a covered picnic area, a small baseball field, a couple soccer or football fields, a small children's playground and a swimming pool operated by the YMCA. read more

This post/review is related to the Patton Pool located within Patton Park. First of all, I fully understand, that it's the responsibility of the staff and Life Guards to insure the safety of all that visit the pool, but some of the rules, they have in place, are really ridiculous. On 5/23/15 my family visited the Patton Park Pool. Before visiting we viewed the City of Hendersonville web page (pool is city owned). No where on the web page does it list the pool rules; only hours of operation and admission price. While at the pool, general rules were posted; no running, no horse play; the usual. When putting sunscreen and arm swimmies on my son, a Life Guard approaches instructing me that arm swimmies are not allowed; only a life vest provided by the pool for a small fee. Now, if arm swimmies are not allowed, then why wasn't this rule posted. This to me, is an act by the pool and city to make money. I visited the concession stand to get a life vest for my son. The charge for the vest was $2.00 and, they had to keep my drivers license until I return the life vest. Okay, first of all, I don't give, just anybody my licenses. With identity theft on the rise, you can't trust just anybody to hold on to your license. I refused to pay the $2.00 and to surrender my driving license to the concession staff. That being said, my son swam in the kiddy pool, which was heavily guarded. Again, I don't disagree with being strict on safety, but as I said before, the rules that are enforced here at Patton Pool is ridiculous. Getting back to the kiddy pool; no adults allowed; even if your child is in the kiddy pool, you as a parent/adult are not allowed in the pool to be with your child for any reason at all. Now come on, this is a little too much; right? Patton Pool put a bad taste our families mouth. This will be our first and last time attending. And another thing, they employee high school kids as life guards and to work the concession stand. They don't teach common sense in high school anymore; none of these kids knew how to use a credit card machine. It's sad isn't it. read more

It seems that there's different set of rules for some when you go to the pool. They will tell you to bring no outside food or drink but you will see others eating and drinking stuff they brought in from home. Also the staff will tell you that you cannot sit on the diving board and slide off into the water because it's not safe they say but they will allow back flips off the board. If your going to run an establishment the right way then make everyone follow the same rules read more

This park has a pretty long walking trail, and is now connected to the new Greenway trail that goes all the way to Jackson Park. It has a large soccer field, a couple baseball diamonds, a large basketball court, a skate park, and a pool! It's a great area to celebrate birthdays under the cover shelter, or you could play wall ball or tennis near the pool. This park has a ton of stuff and it's in a great area. read more

This is the playground nearest to my house, so we're there more than I'd like to be. No shade and old equipment. The whole playground is sand. There's almost always a couple of weirdos lurking around. I haven't used the pool or skate park, so I can't review those. As far as the playground goes though, there are better choices in the area. read more

Huge park with a playground, pool, basketball courts, skate park, pavilions, etc. The only thing it's lacking is swings for the kids at the playground. Off of Asheville Hwy & E. Clairemont. read more

This is for Patton Pool. I went a few days ago and had an amazing time! The lifeguards played games with the kids and the pool had a diving board and was just very nice in general. The water was just the right temperature and the food at the concession stand was really good. The only reason why I'm giving it four stars and not five is because the line for the concession stand was REALLY long. But if you can overlook that, I think you will have a blast read more

Ever since the YMCA took over this pool it has gone downhill. The pool was always well operated, cleaned and friendly when the city was over it but now I have found that it is dirty, inconvenient and pretty sketchy. The first day we came to the pool you could barely see through the water for how nasty it was. The chairs are all mostly broken or covered in filth from previous users and the bathrooms are disgusting. The flags going across the pool are all ripped. The concessions are not good either. There only real option that isn't just snacks is a hotdog. When my friend asked for chili on his hotdog the girl said "hold on let me go check the chili" which after being told he quickly declined the chili knowing that it probably wasn't the freshest. Everything else is just snacks. You can't bring in outside food which I understand but they have recently started a new rule were you can't bring in your own WATER. They make you dump it out in the grass then go fill it back up. The pool is divided into 5 sections. One for lap swimmers one for everyday visitors, and an area for people 13 and above (unless you take the swim test) the camp kids and the kiddie pool. Camp kids take up half the pool and do not have to participate in adult swim. So basically if you go you only get a little portion of the pool to swim in. The diving board is also a portion of the pool but closes during adult swim. My granddaughter being 5 took the swim test and passed. A few weeks later we came back and she had to retake the swim test because they don't keep any records of who did and did not take the swim test. This means that every time you come back to the pool your kid has to take the test over and over again because the lifeguards are too lazy to keep records. The people that hang around this area aren't very friendly either. I have witnessed drug deals in the area and people that are very rude inside of the pool. A lot of people use very foul language (loudly) and leave their trash behind but the lifeguards don't do anything about it. The lifeguards aren't the most helpful either. My daughter got stung by a bee and is slightly allergic enough to make her feel ill and dizzy and when we went to ask for bee sting gel, wipes or other items along the lines of that the lifeguards could not find it and acted lazy in the process of trying to find it. (After about 15 minutes they finally found it.) Their sign has graffiti on it which they haven't fixed and it's been there for about two years. Overall this pool has gone to crap and that's it. read more

Only some pool rules are posted. Some are to be expected, others you find out about when you break them - no snorkels, no children on your shoulders, don't walk between the cones (they put cones out for no discernible reason which blocked us from leaving the pool). Also the no outside food rule is not enforced. I took what I brought back to the car, but the family of four next to us were eating Subway. Also keep in mind it is located next to a skateboard park, so expect to hear loud vulgarities the whole time you are there. Pool needed cleaned as well. We arrived ten minutes after it opened and there was debris all throughout the pool, including two band-aids. read more

This is a review for Patton Pool, since there seems to be no place to give a review specifically for the pool (and maybe for good reason). My family and I visited Patton Pool for the first and last time, all in the same day. We stopped at the entrance to pay, where a young man took my $14 cash. As soon as we got into the pool area, we were told by a life guard (at a table full of life guards) that floatation devices were not allowed in the pool area (no swim ring or arm floaties for my 4 year old)...weird, but I also brought a life jacket, thank goodness. We were only at the pool for about 45 minutes when thunder started, so we all had to get out of the pool. We stopped back at the entrance on the way out and asked for a rain check. The young man who took my money on the way in was standing there, but I spoke with a young woman who told me since I didn't sign in I couldn't get a rain check. I informed her that I was never instructed to sign in. The young man felt no need to speak up. I've been in. The position where I'm the employee who is just following the rules, so I decided that I'd just find out who to call or email. I called the number for the pool on the way home and spoke to a man who claimed to be the General Manager. All he did was tell me without a credit card receipt, there was nothing he could do. And "everyone is required to sign in." I told him repeatedly that HIS employee failed o "require" me to sign in. The call ended with no rain check, $14 wasted on a mere 45 minutes, my family never going back to Patton Pool due to poor customer service, and this review. I hope I save someone the headache of Patton Pool. We'll be driving out to Cane Creek from now on. read more