City of Palm Desert Freedom Park — Attraction in Palm Desert

Mostly nice park. Been here twice in the last week. Grass is severely over watered. Insufficient parking. Would be bad to come here when they're busy because there would be no place to park. Their baseball fields were damaged by recent flooding since this park is by design, as should be all parks, a flood control basin. The park was flooded and when the water receded it left behind up to a foot of silt that it carried down from the hills. The tennis courts and baseball fields and one bathroom are indefinitely closed to remove the now hardened mud. I've only seen 4 guys working here cleaning up and making repairs. At the rate they are progressing they will retire before the work is done. They need big dump trucks and skip loaders. The little dingo they are using is not going to get the job done. Also traffic getting out is miserable. Traffic on Country Club road is so bad that it took us 27 minutes to go just 1.6 miles. Be prepared to sit in your car...

I really enjoy this park but have to downrate it only due to the restroom situation. It's difficult to ever find a restroom that isn't locked, and there's a few of them too so it's frustrating walking from one that's locked all the way across the park with praying the whole time it'll be open because you have kid who has to pee who's being very patient being dragged around ready to pop. I noticed since covid they keep them locked a lot as if they don't want to deal with the germs of the bathroom but yet they still have everyone at the park so tons of people at the park and no restroom, no way to wash your hands people peeing in the bushes cuz they're desperate.. doesn't seem sanitary either. They keep one open but when we finally made it there it was out of paper towels out of toilet paper the faucets were covered in mud....or I hope it was mud hehe.... Anyway great Park just be prepared and try to go before you come, if you know...

Nice park and facilities. Been here a few times for the kids baseball and the fields look to be nicely maintained and manicured. There are three baseball fields each with a set of metal bleachers as well as two separate tiers to spectate from. One at field level and another about 6 feet higher which is at the elevation of the rest of the park. Unfortunately there are no outfield fences. So any home runs would be considered in-field as apposed to out of the park home runs. Besides baseball there are a few full basketball courts, tennis courts, pickle ball courts, a football field, a large open grass area and two separate...