Townsend Park — Attraction in Phoenix

Small park, just south of Safeway (currently open from 6am-10pm), with two(2) ramadas, a basketball court and kid play area-- next to a remedial school (Genesis). Only open from 7:30am-7:30pm. Be sure to use the restroom before you get there and bring plenty of water with you; as there are no restrooms and the drinking fountains do not work that well. The park also doesn't offer any electrical outlets or grills. The shopping complex does offer a Subway (currently closed for remodeling), and an Einstein's Bagel (closed at 2pm). Along with a Cricket Wireless, a BofA bank (no tellers for quite sometime now, due to Covid-- I would guess), a UPS store and a dental place. When the park closes, there is a 3rd party security company that takes on the task of keeping anyone stopping in, overly well informed, that they are not welcomed till the morning. Not many trees for shade and the kid play area is sparsely covered-- be careful to check that the equipment is not to hot for the little one(s). McDonald's is just down the street, east of the park. Unfortunately, they do not offer a playplace nor do they have any charging stations to recharge...

There's nothing positive to say about this park at all there's soooo much homeless people in this parking doing drugs and fighting it's not safe for the kids. I spoke with a 911 dispatcher and they informed me that the park is opened to the public so it's okay that they're there. NO these people need to go some where else! It's a child play ground. They try to offer teenagers drugs when all they want to do is play basketball! There are homeless people on drugs here EVER DAY and one tried to break in my house I live right...

It had a lot of trees you could sit under for shade a little playground which little kids would probably enjoy and they also had a basketball court. Unfortunately at the moment I went there, there were a lot of homeless people passed out in the grass and sitting at the tables taking up the whole space. Although I feel very sad about the homeless I would be afraid to take my children there at that time considering I believe a lot of them were under the influence of substances. I will say that this is not...