Discovery Park — Attraction in Henderson

Even though this lovely park wasn’t that far from my home, I had never been before. My Niece and her two young children, ages 5 & 2 were here in Henderson visiting from Arizona this past Sept./Oct. 2019 and the weather was beautiful, so we decided to take the kids to the park. Someone had recommended it to my Stepmom, so off we went. Though the directions were a bit odd, the park itself was great. It’s an 8 acre park nestled in a family friendly area of Green Valley in Henderson. The first thing I noticed was that the playground section for the younger children had a very well padded (rubberized somehow I guess???) floor area, in case anyone took a little spill, instead of like in my day, when it was all rock or cement, OUCH! As you call see by my photos, they had vibrant and colorful and safety minded fun and familiar objects, for the children to climb, slide, crawl, reach, etc. on. The ChooChoo Train was the main focal piece, it had various entrances & exits, a bridge that connected to a slide and so much more. It really help the children build up not only their physical abilities, but also the confidence in themselves. My own Great Niece, only 2 years old, started out being afraid to do most everything, but after watching other little one’s at play, and with a little encouragement and help from the Grown -ups in her life that were there, she lost all her fear before long. In fact, she couldn’t get enough of everything and wanted to try something new! The playground also had swing sets and a large tube for crawling through. The young ones also had plenty of room for them to just have fun. The park had plenty of seating, restrooms, shade for getting out of the direct sun and another area for the bigger kids. My Great Nephew, almost 6, got “bored” in the playground area and went over into the other section of the park (with an adult) but I wasn’t able to walk over. I’m sure the rest of the park was just as nice as the section for the youngest kids.

Overall, I was very impressed with the portion of the park that I did see and enjoy with my family. More information can be found online at the City of Henderson’s website under Discovery Park. I would definitely recommend taking your little one’s to this park, based on my experience from my time there...

Discovery is another nice little park in the Green Valley community that is clean and well maintained. Most of the visitors are here walking their dogs around the park in the grassy area. The good thing is I haven't really seen any stray dog poop hanging around from an irresponsible owner. Fantastic.

The playground area has a soft padded ground in case a kid takes a fall. The restrooms are located right by the playground and has two entrances. There's a full length basketball court with 6 hoops total in case two full court games are necessary. There two sand volleyball courts I don't think I've seen anyone actually use recently.

We visit mainly for the tennis courts. The courts do have some cracks and there's no fence divider between the courts but overall they are in a good condition. There's a tennis wall to practice solo with a dedicated practice area outside the courts. The lights stay on until 11:06 PM (yes we've stayed that late) which is great for you late night tennis and basketball players.

Overall Discovery Park is a nice little dog park with something for...

It's not a bad park BUT they're toliets are HORRENDOUS. 2 toliets both female and males are overfilled to the brim with toliet paper and poop. There's only 1 toliet that works and it's barely holding onto dear life. The playgrounds are nice there's about 3 total 1 for babies, another for toddlers and one last one for mid teen kids. I honestly found the park to be nice and calming but those bathrooms are disgusting somebody needs to get them flushed out because...