Ralph B Clark Park — Attraction in Buena Park

Ralph B Clark Regional park is by far one of the better regional lakes I have been to. Fairly inexpensive to enter plenty of things to do while inside the park.

Just like with any park with a lake fishing can be great. This park over any other that I have had the pleasure of fishing is pressured. But great healthy bass to trout and catfish tons of blue gill.

There are softball and baseball fields. there are tennis courts as well,four to be exact. To play areas for children. There is also a archeology building with fossils inside. Great for both children and adults. Clean restrooms to tables inside the park.

There is also a small walking/hiking trail that starts left facing the tennis courts and rosecrans ave north western part of the park. The trail works around the outer edge of the park into the hills on the far east side of the park.

The holidays can be very busy as with any place this place does as well weekends sometimes can have a fair amount of people in the park fishing or at the play ground or any one of the fields for a sports activity.

Easter to forth of July and a few others the park can get really packed. It excellent though plenty of people families eating having a great time. Doing what ever said activities I mentioned earlier.

There is a lot of parking inside the lake not a issue dueing weekdays or weekends. Holidays on the other hand its full, people park on the street.

I have seen people parking down on Rosecrans Ave as low as Emery Ranch road the cross street at the bottom of Rosecrans and as high up past the fire station and around the corner. It is worth the walk for family or any other activities in the park.

There are rangers that regularly roam the park and keep the place very well kept as well with the lake very clear water. The rangers are very friendly.

Overall this lake is excellent one of the best regional lakes I...

Great Park for a good relaxing time. You can workout, have a picnic, play tennis, baseball/softball or volleyball on one of their courts, enjoy watching the birds on the lake. Its a great park to take your kids, they have a few playgrounds with swings, slides.

PARK FACILITIES: Amphitheater, barbecues, baseball/softball fields, bicycling, fire rings, fishing, group picnic areas, hiking trails, horseshoe pits, Interpretive Center, interpretive programs, model sail boating, picnic tables, picnic shelters, playground equipment, tennis courts, volleyball courts.

INTERPRETIVE CENTER: The interpretive center is a small museum which features ice age fossil and local geology exhibits.

The center has an impressive mural of ice age mammals by Mark Hallet.

Among the fossils on display is a 9-million-year-old baleen whale skeleton that was recovered from a local construction site. It is reputed to be one of the only complete Miocene whale fossils in existence.

Admission is free.

TRAILS: The park has a pleasant tree shaded trail that runs about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) along its periphery (including a 0.3-mile (500 m) walk along the north edge of the park).

WILD LIFE: The park has a surprising variety of wildlife, given its small size. More than 130 species of birds have been sighted in the park[3] and there are resident populations of squirrels, rabbits, fish, lizards and turtles. In the evening, just after sundown, bats can be seen feeding on the insects that fly over the pond. On occasion coyotes, raccoons and opossums visit the park.

FISHING: The pond is stocked with catfish[4] and trout. In addition, there is a resident population of Largemouth bass and bluegill.[5] Catch and release rules apply to the bass.

Fishing licenses are required for people sixteen...

This is less a review of the park (it IS very nice) but more a review of the personnel I ran into yesterday 3/31/24, approx. 5:30p.m. I got a call from friends asking me to join them in a volleyball game at the park, as I live nearby. Even though my friends had played there several times, I had not, so when I got to the park (walked in) I asked the attendant at the booth where the volleyball courts were. She said they didn't have volleyball courts, only tennis courts, but if we did they would be 'around the corner to the right'. I told her I had received a call from people AT the courts, there WERE volleyball courts. I wasn't getting anywhere so she handed me a map and soon I could see the volleyball nets, behind the Interpretive Center, and the courts were clearly shown on the map. I had to leave right away but I thought I would show the attendant where the courts were on the map. The door was slightly opened so I knocked on the door and when she opened it I took maybe one step into the booth to show her the map. She proceeded to get very agitated, telling me I'm not allowed to be in the booth, which is fair, so I stepped out and told her that I wanted to explain there were volleyball courts at the park, and I would show her on the map where they were. She was still agitated at my presence, though I was outside the booth, and went out of my way to maybe help her do her job better and not mislead others. She was so rude at that point that I decided to leave, and not sure what the criteria is for someone working that job, but it doesn't reflect well on the park to have an employee who is not willing to help customers or maybe get better informed on the amenities...