I am the mother of a 3 year old boy and we like to go around to all the playgrounds we can find in the Sacramento area. We like playgrounds that have a lot of opportunities to climb as well as awesome slides and structures. McClatchy Park has very quickly become one of our absolute favorite playgrounds! It is train themed, with very unique climbing structures and awesome slides, swings, and a zip-line style hanging bar. Very very fun playground!! Adjacent to the playground is a Frisbee golf course and other ball courts. Also (and frankly, more importantly) there is a monument for the people who police have murdered, beautiful named paintings to help us to keep saying the names of the lives lost, to help us to always remember. BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!
Absolutely a beautiful park, easy parking, and kind people. I...
Read moreThere are a lot of great families that bring their children out. My kids have made many friends coming here, as this is our neighborhood park. I love the fact that there is a toddler side and a bigger kid side. The play structures challenge the kids physically which was especially nice for is after covid. There can be some more sketchy activity as there is a skate park also here but everyone is pretty respectful of the play area. Also there's a pool, we haven't been but it never looked crowded when it was open last summer. I believe they're is a baseball field and disc golf course also located within the park so really fun for the...
Read moreThis park is in a very rough area. Lots of crime reported in the area. We didn't knots or realize that until we were already at the park, and made our own observations.
Once you get past the "rough" thing, the parks playground is really cool. It is huge, great for even older kids, and has neat huge animals that kids can climb and play on.
We even had the sweetest conversation there, with a young lady who told us that her mom sometimes sells food there! Delightful young lady.
Hopefully the rough aspect of this playground will gradually dissipate. Great park in a rough area. We didn't...
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