Crack pipe by the kids slide!! The city should do better about keeping the park clean!!!read more

Lynwood has been going downhill,new city mayor and council members needed. Someone that truly cares…read morefor the community. Walk the talk kind of persons. Another Baseball season and community has to deal with bad dirty benches (pressure wash that park) during practice they have to limit the time frame as not all Baseball lights work, too many blind spots. Better practicing areas for children that actually want to get involved in sports. They are doing a new playground so nothing much for toddler to do. The current small playground has lots of red flags /unsafe ,they need to do periodically inspections of playground as well. It's a small community and high taxes collected we need better parks. Every excuse comes with "the budget"

Spane Park is a must-see site; we had an amazing day there. We left our fishing gear and when we…read morereturned, everything was already set up. My granddaughters, ages 5 and 9, had a great time on their first fishing trip. Seeing families enjoying outdoor times in the park makes me nostalgic, and I wish my family had enjoyed such moments with me when I was younger. Congratulations to the parents for providing such treasured memories for their children. We will undoubtedly return.

We Have been taking my two year old here since she was 4 months old because it a park close to the…read morehouse . The duck and pond area is nice and clean , just wish they had more play swing or area for toddlers . The playground is for older kids not so much toddlers .

I usually go there our Face to Face meet up. Thea park is big there is plenty of room to have a…read moresmall get together or party. It is even great to watch baseball games, basketball, in the sports center is the swimming pool. There are plenty of squirrels roaming around are pretty healthy. When I would get there the squirrel would come up to you to see if you have some food if not then it would go on its way to looking for food. I highly recommend this place alone, with someone, and or family. Kindness forward one person at a time.

Many sports facilities here. Pickleball lines are drawn onto tennis courts. BYO net. Played with…read morefriendly people here until lights out. Mostly beginners, few stronger players. Ample free parking here, which was a breath of fresh air coming from crowded DTLA, literally and figuratively.

Kids practicing soccer, teens practicing baseball, adults playing dominoes, toddlers playing soccer…read moreand running around, people jogging. As I was driving by, looking for a parking space, I noticed a group of guys that might not be the most the approachable. As I typed that, a security guard drives by in a golf cart lol regardless, the park is pretty packed at this time on a chilly Thursday evening (7pm). Park can be a bit cleaner, 6/10 on cleanliness and sorry about the pics. CJ and I were waiting in the parking lot until gf came out of the hospital (St. Francis) around the corner.

The atmosphere was great people were very friendly and welcoming. Family atmosphere and even though…read moreI came alone I quickly was invited into the groups

Nice friendly park, to bike ride, BBQ. You can sometimes see ppl horseback riding. Restrooms are…read moreclean lots of parking.

Love their running trail for recovery runs. It's .55 miles per lap and you can easily sneak in a…read moremile or two. Lots of activities here throughout the week, so you might run into a bit of foot traffic on the trail.

This place is amazing . I take my boy here for soccer training . This park is SO alive! So active!…read moreBeautiful facilities , gym, courts , turf field , regular field , playground , running path around .so many ppl, families , food truck, raspa guy, tables , benches . I could spend all day here . Literally makes me want to move to Downey. .

Temple Park is located in west Downey, just north of Los Amigos Golf Course…read more Accessible via Stewart and Gray Road, it sits in the middle of a nice neighborhood. It's a very small park and playground area with a couple of bbq pits and several picnic tables. The Park was originally dedicated in 1968 (according to http://www.thedowneypatriot.com/) and was said to have had a pretty cool spiral slide... too bad I never had the chance to see it. At any rate, a new playground was put in and the park was re-dedicated in July of this year ('15). There are two swings for older ages. The only way your baby or younger toddler will get to swing is if you hold them in your lap. No baby swings are available. The area with the slide is nice, but I can't imagine kids any older than preschool really wanting to spend much time here unless you brought a frisbee or something. Both of these area have wood chips (bark mulch) instead of sand or rubber mulch, etc. as the surfacing. If the entire area was fenced in, I might like it better when I have both of our girls to myself. It's not a real busy area with traffic, but there were a few cars moving in and out while we were there on 9/17/15. It was around 11:30 a.m. when we went there and not a soul was in sight. Also, I really wish that the City would develop a better way to contain trash that was probably placed into the open barrel trash cans but made its way back onto the playground and lushes grass areas. Fair amount of street parking available. Review #397 Yelp challenge 78/100

I love this park! Small, yet awesome! Very hidden and private, just how I like it! I call it a…read morehidden gem

It's beautiful clean and lots of things to do. Has a small trail, exercise machines in the back.read more

The pool is great. Big enough for kids to be able to play either by themselves or other kids. The…read morelifeguards are all friendly. My only concern with the pool which isn't really them-it's the parents. They need to watch their kids and not treat it as a babysitter. I've had to help a girl out who was struggling to swim and she was like 4. And the lifeguards continuously have to tell the same kids to stop all day. Also, there should be an age limit for boy being in the girls locker room. My 9 year old daughter feels uncomfortable with boys her age in a space where she undressed. Moms need to let their kids be more independent and let them change on their own in the boys room. I get the safety aspect for them but let's take into consideration that young girls feel uncomfortable too.

This is a very nice well kept park in a very hard to find parking neighborhood. We arrived in my…read moretruck with our bicycles so we could ride the Los Angeles River trail to Long Beach. There's very limited parking spaces available at this long narrow park but luckily some people were leaving just as I arrived. Unfortunately the gate was locked to access the trail and we had to ride north to Rosecrans to enter the trail.

Great park for nice nature walk. Has work out machine through out the walking trail and a indoor…read moresoccer field in the back of the park .

This is a nice, decently large sized park. I really like that it has a designated parking lot with…read moreplenty of space. It's super easy to just park your car and just start enjoying nature! There's a lake, a pool, a kid's playground area, a bike path, plenty of benches and tables. There's even a small basketball court/hoops. Obviously, the pool is closed right now, there are no basketball rims, and the playground area is blocked off due to covid. But there's still plenty to enjoy in this park! Everyone seems to keep their distance here and wear masks when near others, so that's good. Get outside and get some sun!

Half of the park didn't look too bad, but the other half was so putrid that I can't believe I drove…read moreout of my way just to visit a duck pond full of murky waters and nearly deceased turtles. I don't visit the South Gate area often, so my visits to the City of Bell Gardens will be rare. The only reason I wanted to visit this park was because from an overhead perspective on Google Maps Satellite View, it looked like a nice, serene place to stretch your legs and relax for a little while. With a duck pond in the middle of the park and plenty of walkways around the park, I was starting to feel this could be Bell Garden's equivalent of Wilderness Park in Downey minus the parking fee for visitors who reside in a different city. Unfortunately, I do not plan to return to this park next time I'm in Bell Gardens. The park is located adjacent to the Bell Gardens Sports Center, and I almost thought the two were connected to one another, but it would be a really long walk from one end to the other. There appeared to be a gate in the back corner of the park that led to the back corner of the sports complex, but the "No Trespassing" sign deterred me from walking in that direction. I parked on the east end of the park where there is a playground and a couple of basketball courts by the adult school. The playground and the basketball courts seemed to be in fine condition, but nobody was playing there when I went. Towards the west, you'll see a myriad of picnic tables scattered about, so it does feel pretty open in that area. However, the grass is definitely greener in other parks, and I should have taken that as a sign of things to come when I was walking towards the duck pond. As I'm walking about the duck pond, I was literally grossed out by a ton of filth both on the walkways as well as at the pond's edges. No joke, there were so much filth on the corners that it almost looked like you could walk across them, but of course, I would never put my foot in the water just to try. If I did, I'd almost certainly need a new shoe! In one of those corners, I saw three turtles that appeared they were trying to slowly but surely fight their way towards the surface of the pond so as to not drown. I almost thought they were dead, but I did witness some slight movement in them, a glimmer of hope that they could have been saved if animal control were in the area. But with how filthy and murky these waters were, I didn't want to put my hands in there, and I didn't know what to do to save them. As much as I wanted to, I had to leave them be :( The ducks swimming in the cleaner parts of the pond or standing on the fringe were in much better spirits, though the ones on land barely exhibited any movement whatsoever, perhaps symbolic of how inactive this park is even in good weather. There was construction nearby, which necessitated a great deal of fences around the park. Some of the fences blocked the walkway around the pond, so I had to walk in the grass/dirt between the pond and the fence while circumnavigating the pond. I don't know what that construction was about, but I hope something good will come of it. During my visit, it was a bothersome nuisance in my trying to immerse myself in relaxing scenery. The restrooms weren't in good condition either. The sink I used was barely working, and I didn't want to even bother with the hand dryer. Lastly, a lot of the parkgoers acted kind of weird that I can understand why the playground and basketball courts were empty on an otherwise beautiful day. I didn't really feel safe in the park, and I was starting to worry that one of those weirdos would heckle me. Luckily, nobody did. Overall, I regret stopping by this park. It does not appear to be maintained well, and I can't be certain this area is safe if I didn't see that many people there. If I do make a return visit to this area, I would rather stop by the adjacent sports complex next door even though I don't play sports, but I at least could watch some soccer players practicing on the fields there.