Walker Park — Attraction in Fayetteville

We just had my kiddos 13th birthday party there. We reserved the large pavilion. When we arrived, there were homeless people there and then they refused to leave when we explained we had it reserved. They became belligerent and I ended up having to call the cops. I don't like calling cops and calling them was a last resort. They were cussing and yelling as I had parents showing up with their children. Kids ages 6-13 were there. This was not appropriate for kids to see. The cops got them to move to another table but the entire time they were cussing and yelling about us and that it's a free country. While I am sympathetic to their situation, (I have been homeless myself) if I have a bunch of kids coming, I expect you to act like a decent human and not expose others kids to all the profanity and belligerency. It was the worst experience I've ever had in a park for a party. Between the cigarette butts and trash all over and the belligerent people it was the worst park experience...

I love how we have a local park, I've been going for about 15 years now. But...its definitely time for lights to be added. Going to school full time and working as well I often can't go until around 6. This is still good during the summer but useless during the winter months. I've heard rumor after rumor that "Oh this year they're planning on adding lights" so many times now I don't pay any attention to it anymore. I just wish the bmx/skateboard community got an ounce of the love that the mountain biking community gets around nwa. With this area becoming a hotspot for mountain biking it would be incredible to see nwa a freestyle hotspot as well. We've contacted companies in regards to the cost to set up lights and presented it at board meetings and all we get back is it's on the list, the same thing I've heard for years now.. Anyway, I love the park but it would just be so incredible to have lights installed, or even...

I used to love this park when I was a kid. My school would take field trips and all of the kids could run free without supervision. Absolutely not the case these days. It's trashed. Homeless people have pretty much taken it over. I wanted to stop by the horseshoe area today but I pulled in and just made a u turn and left. There were so many homeless people there with a tent setup, an older lady seemed pretty much unresponsive in a wheelchair and a drunk guy was stumbling around the parking lot. Revive this park. Fayetteville needs to step up and do something about the homeless population instead of ruining the pump station with an eyesore of an "update" of chain link fence with barbwire and security cameras. Funny, the university and Walmart can build anything any time and own most of Fayetteville but the city just can't seem to come up with the money to build a facility for the countless...