Beach Park — Attraction in Bakersfield

I'm rating only for the skate park we did not enjoy the park area because of the homeless that were lurking around. I took my twin 7 year old boys with their scooters and even though some of the drops are to advance for them. They had so much fun on some of the other skate park drop ins. I would say that the skate park itself is not as slick as some others we have been too which made it better for beginners like my boys. Overall extremely satisfied with the skatepark. We also went when it was not super busy it's definitely a teenage/older crowd. We didn't want to worry about to much cross traffic so we went when...

If you're planning to have a picnic, bring a ton of stuff to clean the tables. They are filthy. Not they weren't cleaned in a week filthy, but not cleaned in months filthy. There's many vagrants and shady folks around as well. The playground is in decent condition and my 6yo enjoyed them, until we found human excrement between the rock climbing walls. Also the ground squirrels were super cute and rampant for my kiddo to chase... Hence the one star. Avoid if you're looking for a nice spot off the highway, to...

This park is borderline dangerous. Many slides are missing. Some of the entrances to what would have been a slide are boarded up but a few aren't. A kid could easily fall. There is a lot of litter everywhere and a very bad infestation of what I think is ground squirrels.

The good part is the field and the winding sidewalk. Kids can skate or ride their bikes away from the street. The field is big enough to run around in but the ground squirrels ha e dug so many holes you have to be...