Drake Park — Attraction in Long Beach

Wonderful large park with a great playground, huge field, benches in the shade, gazebos, tennis courts, basketball court, small skate park, and even a separate fenced younger kids playground. There is a community center on site that serves as a polling place, does free meal programs during the summer, after school care, and even Zumba classes.

The only downside is the neighborhood is not great and parking can be a little tough, but I've been thrilled to live next to this park for almost 3 years now and will be missing it when I move.

Be sure to check out the historical Bembridge House next to the park, it's like a museum with everything preserved inside. You can schedule tours of the house through the local historical society. It's a 1906 Queen Anne Victorian style home, one of the last of its kind. It's very large with a carriage house and a recreated Victorian style rose garden. There's even a miniature recreation on top of the Little Free Library...

I would like to return to this park, in the near future, and see clean restrooms! Unfortunately, the current conditions of the restrooms are horrible! In my opinion, it is toxic to walk in a restroom that is flooded with bodily fluids; to say the least! I use this channel to ask the corresponding Long Beach City Officials, who are in charge of this park (Drake Park), to please assign a cleaning crew. The hundreds of neighborhood children and visitors that come here deserve clean and...

City takes pretty shabby care here. Nobody can use the new soccer fields, which are hot and hard to reach. Spent a bazillion dollars on a new playground for kids, but it floods after every rain. It could be so much nicer if the city spent half the attention on it that they do on fancy pools and running trails in other...