Since baby girl was a little girl have taken her to this park and met soooo many friends here. Still friends with all the friends we met here too. Such a lovely park, beautiful and calming. They have enough parking, they do games on the field too. They have a playground for older and younger kids, they also have an area down below you can have birthday's and you can ride around if you want too. I love this park it's sweet and everyone is always friendly here. Yesterday met our friend she met when she was around 2 years old, was nice to see them and let our kids play. It was such a beautiful night too. Calming breeze with the sun setting i got some beautiful pictures too. Baby girl and her friend got to play for a couple hours and met some friends too. Always nice kids at this park, they had fun. Except a little boy they were playing with ran off and the Mom wasn't paying attention and i physically could not chase him so I had baby girl try to catch him but then he just kept running further away. We told the Mom and she ran to try and find him was a bit nerve wrecking thinking this little boy was lost he ran through the bushes and then baby girl spotted him at the top of the hill where houses were thank God and the Mom ran over and got him. I can only imagine her scare i would have ran after him if I could but couldn't thank God baby girl spotted him though. After that the kids played a bit longer and I was able to catch a bit of the sunset :) Thank you for keeping this park so nice and pretty and all the friendly people that come here such great memories at this park watching baby girl grow up. Have a beautiful day, be kind to everyone :) Aloha read more

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This park is located a stones throw from carbon canyon. It is clean and had 2 play sets and plenty of seating. The restrooms were ok not the cleanest. My girls like the rock climbing part that connects to the play set. read more

Wilcatters Park is a hidden gem! It is secluded and private, yet open to the public. Perfect for basketball practice, a peaceful walk, or just enjoying miles of scenic trails. The parking feels private, the vibes are calm, and it's the kind of spot you'll keep coming back to. I could not keep this to myself. I do not gate keep. read more

I love this park. It is extremely well-maintained. The play areas are separated for parents for your little kids from 2 to 5 years old and then your big kids from 5 to 12 both bathroom play areas. Each of the plate areas as well-maintained. The ground has fantastic padding Having twins one of the things that I love is the swings for your small kids from 2 to 5 they have the bucket seats. They had four of them which often when we go visit there's one or two, and sometimes those are already taken which can be troublesome. There was a nice shaded picnic area for the parents to wait in between the two playgrounds. There's a nice walking path for families restrooms were clean and readily available. One of the other things that are often tough to find a Parks is shade over the equipment, which both playgrounds had. read more

Wildcatters Park - Little playground. - Parks Near Me - Brea, California

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Holy cow, we came here recently and LOVED this park! It was so clean and spacious with some fun park amenities. Most parks are fairly standard with slides, monkey bars...sometimes swings, but this park had it all and fun spinning disks, climbing rocks and a snack shack! I don't know if the snack shack is always open, but it was when we attendee's on a Tuesday afternoon as there was a little league baseball game happening at the very nice baseball field. This field was fully equipped with so much and then after the game ended, the kids filed over to the playground for a birthday party, so it was very convenient. My son is 3, and he was able to navigate this park pretty well on his own aside from one of the climbing ladders, but he had a blast. He even wanted to walk around the trail multiple times trying to catch Pokemon because this park had multiple gyms, pokestops and an easy route to follow. There were also so many places to sit and watch your child from nearly any angle which was great. The bathrooms were a little dark, but were clean enough...there was toilet paper and the soap was stocked, so you can't ask for much else. All in all, we actually can't wait to come back here! read more

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Cute, small playground in a quiet area. It's surrounded by green and a trail to it's nice to walk around. My toddler and first grader liked it and when we went it was just us but a few other kids joined closer to lunch time. Note, we went on a Sunday am and the restrooms were locked. If you're in the area, I'd recommend it but wouldn't go out of my way. read more

I couldn't find the dog park but we did get some exercise here. Nice quaint park and it's very well maintained. Clean with clear paths and dog poop bags, picnic tables, plenty of grass, I think a baseball field too if I recall. And a playground. The neighborhood is very nice, near Diamond Bar, an area of LA I'm unfamiliar with but was very pretty to experience. A hidden gem surely. read more

I hope you like learning, because I'm about to school you a little bit. This park has a dog park, but you may have been afraid to bring your pooch because of the park's name; why risk having a walk in the park turn into the worst (and last) day of Fido's life, as a hungry bobcat or mountain lion drags your poor dog away? But it's not named "Wildcat Park." It's Wildcatters Park. What are wildcatters? Well, they're multiple things, but in this case, although it doesn't tell you anywhere, the wildcatters being referred to are those people who drill exploratory oil wells. How do I know this? Because I came here long before it was a public park--in fact, long before any neighborhoods existed here. When I first came here in the mid-'80s, my mom worked for what was still called the Union Oil Company of California. It eventually changed its name to Unocal, and it eventually sold its logo to ConocoPhillips before being swallowed entirely by Chevron and ceasing to exist. The 76 logo is still used by ConocoPhillips, but Unocal is defunct. Why is this important? Because some of the land that Wildcatters Park now occupies used to be part of A.C. Rubel Park. A.C. Rubel was one of the early presidents of Union Oil, and the entire area around the current park was and is an active oil field. You'll see pumpjack wells just to the north of the park, and there are plenty more that you're not able to see. So the park is named in honor of the industry that sold the land to the developers of the nearby neighborhood, which has one street name Rubel Drive (definitely a reference to A.C. Rubel Park, if not to Rubel himself) and another named Phillips Court (probably a reference to Phillips Petroleum, before it merged with Conoco in 2002). I love the current park because it's beautifully done. But I really love the park because just north of it (and possibly where its playing fields now stand) is where I spent three or four really wonderful picnics with my mom, her coworkers, her coworkers' families, and my cousin Greg. I don't remember each of the dates of those picnics, but I know one for sure: August 7, 1986. Want to read about that day in my life? Well, check this out: https://www.asceoc.org/newsletter/article/august_bbq_and_field_trip_august_1986 So nine-year-old me was enjoying the Santa Maria-style barbecue (which was delicious; I didn't stop eating meat until much later) and the plentiful soft drinks in huge coolers on hand. I also loved all the weird "amenities" of A.C. Rubel Park--namely, all the strange and mysterious and randomly placed half-buildings and platforms and what looked like stages and bandstands made of various metals and corrugated steel that could have come straight off the set of M*A*S*H. In fact, the entire place felt like the set of that beloved TV show. There were barely any trees (contrary to the newsletter's tease), but there were plenty of hilly places to explore, even though we all knew as kids that we weren't really supposed to, as everything felt just a little bit dangerous. And it was. Of course, there must have been rattlesnakes even though we never saw any, and there was definitely random oil-well machinery that was dangerous to play around. One of the pumpjacks was even dolled up to look like a huge insect, complete with antennae that ended in orange spheres (an homage to the 76 ball?) and cute orange eyes, even though decorating pumpjacks had long been illegal in California because of the risk of children being attracted to and playing on the equipment. But this was in a private park, so I guess they didn't have to follow that law--or maybe they were still supposed to. One of the highlights of the picnic was the softball game, which pitted people of all ages against one another on massive teams whose batting orders seemed to last forever. What I mostly remember is that Joey was a spectacularly fast baserunner and that my mom's boss was a good catcher. The softball "field"--it was mainly a piece of dirt that was flatter than the rest of the park--was south of the main picnic area, which is why I believe it occupied the space that the northeastern corner of Wildcatters Park now occupies. The current Wilcatters Park has plenty of parking, and in addition to the baseball and football/soccer fields and dog park, there's a playground, a picnic area, and some nice paths that I'll need to come back to explore. There are also public restrooms, and when I came earlier this month, there was what looked like a temporary, rain-created pond in the southwest marshy area. I really want to climb up the hill to see how much of A.C. Rubel Park remains, especially its strange structures. (Were they ever used as intended, or was the promise of the picnic park oversold and exaggerated, as it was in the newsletter?) It's all fenced off now, and the old entrance off of Valencia Avenue that we used to enter has a locked gate. Oh well. Maybe one day. It's close to Carbon Canyon Regional Park. read more

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The city of Brea pretty much kills it on parks, and has lots of great ones to choose from. This place is no exception. You've got park needs? They've got you. Restless children? A large playground with canopy coverage and nice newish equipment. None of that crappy sand or wood chip ground cover either. We are talking grade A recycled tire rubberized matting. Only the best for you Brea. 8 swings too, including several for little ones or kids who are differently abled. You like sports? Football/soccer field, baseball diamond, basketball court. You could leave here closer to professional sports glory than you've ever been. A few rounds of Frisbee here and you can practically feel the Olympic gold sliding around your neck. Outdoor eating is your thing? Tons of covered (or uncovered) concrete picnic tables in bucolic settings. It's lovely. Henry David Thoreau himself would eat a Big Mac with you here. And he doesn't even like Big Macs. Large open spaces? Got 'em. Scenic walking paths (that are also wheelchair accessible)? Like a Bob Ross painting. Well maintained rest rooms? I'm peeing just thinking about them. Sometimes they over water and the grass has some mushy areas. You are really being nit picky now. Anyway, it's pretty nice. read more

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Great playground with big and little kid sides. Plenty of bucket swings too, which you don't see often. Restrooms right nearby and a paved trail to a bridge. Beautiful location too! read more

What a beautiful park! The kids playground is safe and cheerful an interesting two adults and children alike it's just beautiful. Walking trails are awesome. We had a great day we go back if it was closer to Redlands and I didn't have to drive through Orange County traffic for an hour but man it's a beautiful beautiful beautiful place read more

This is by far our favorite park around. Bathrooms are close and there is some shade for the parents to sit. We love it!