This park is HUGE!!! Not to mention it has some of the coolest, most unique playground equipment Ive ever seen. In addition its got a public restroom (with a hand washing station), water fountain for people and pets, trash cans, pet clean up station, cool art, picnic tables, the works!!

Nice place to chill. They redid the playground. New age ninja warrior style equipment. If your quiet its a place to sleep in a pinch.

It is a peaceful place to have fun with the family while we enjoy the nature of the park.

Awesome park. So much cultural diversity in who visits! Great climbing and sliding. The boys love the mallet and chimes too. The sculptures are a unique touch, although it took us a while to identity the first one, since its so little.

They reconstructed this park and the kids love it! Theres a hill they can slide down on with a piece of cardboard, huge chimes they can make music on, a fun basket type seeing that 3-4 kids can seeing in at a time. Some fun things to climb on and more.

Visibility is not good unless you follow your children around the giant hill to keep a constant eye on them. You have to bring something to slid down the hill on. Most people bring pieces of cardboard. You would think cardboard was gold for the kids. They fight over it if they cant share. So BYOC (Bring your own cardboard). This is a playground designed to keep your child moving and not sitting for any length time. Which is very needed for all the processed food we all consume these days. My child doubled in weight in 2 years. I am sad and devastated but I am working on meal prep plans and healthy choices for all of us to help her out. So this park is perfect for her. She stays active the whole duration we are there. We walk to the park and never stop moving until we get back home. I have 4 kids, 2 of them are under 4, so it is hard to keep track of them all, all the time. I cant make the older ones follow the younger ones because then they dont get to have fun. It is a constant workout. But that is the life of a mom most of the time anyway.Overall it is good for kids but for parents who need to sit down for a few minutes at a time, not good at all. I am pregnant and hot and out of breath most of the time . I want to sit my heavy butt down for at least 1/3% of the time. So for me this is just an okay park. The healthier I am the more stars I can give. I got a ways to go.

Amazing park with tracks, modern play areas, drinkable water fountains, and a hill for cardboard sledding. Good crowds but not lit at night.

This park is so different from others my kids love sliding down the grass hill on cardboard! And the dirt bike track !!!

Actually a great park for dogs or kids, nice multi-texture plsy structures, good walking path through that loops around a good section of the park, does butt up against a schoolyard but it one yhe far side of a large open field with soccer goals

This is a well appointed park with pleasant large open areas, far enough from Stark as to be not too noisy. They have a wonderful playground, closed for covid quarantine but well designed and thought out. The lack of maintenance and sheer volume of litter are distractions from how lovely a park it really is.

Greatest park ever. So much fun for the whole family.

Beautiful hidden gem of a park with kids, laughter, barbecue gatherings, culture, and ice cream trucks too! Great park to peacefully lay in the grass and appreciating nature.

This is a sweet place, my son loves the pump track and we are grateful that its still open even though the playground is closed due to Covid. I wish there were some benches for people to sit on while thier kiddos bike.

This is a really nice place. I had a good time with friends and neighbors. Gotta watch out for the cops though. They are really angry and loud and gassy.

They have a great updated play area for kids to play and some cool structures to look at as well and if your kid get bored with that playground you can walk a hundred yards to the school and there is 2 more playgrounds lol

Excellent family friendly place to ride bikes, use the equipment, fly frisbees, or play soccer, etc. While we were there, an ice cream truck came by so that was a bonus. No picnic tables, bring a blanket. Wear a mask.

My kids love this park.

Awesome park with 3 difference parks all combined.

This is a huge park with many different activities for kids and adults. Lots of space to sit and eat in the shade of a huge tree. Very nice place to be.

Needs a little work, but for southeast Portland......itll do for now.

Took the RC car to the BMX track and had a blast!

This is a lovely park, it has a skateboard area and a bmx area, along with a playground and picnic tables. The bathroom was relatively clean, take your own hand sanitizer.

Nice park, everything was spread out. Park was clean and well maintained.

Wow wow wow! What a fun place for the kids to play!

GREAT PARK! We have been going there for years now. But they have completely updated the entire park. The kids have so much fun there.

Large open space and very clean.

Love coming here with my son very clean and lots to do

Nice park, plenty of shade and open space for picnics and bbqs.

Its a big park good for social distancing

This playground is light years ahead of the death traps I used to play at when I was a child. I remember that the play structures were completely made of cast iron, lead, and balsa wood so that you were guaranteed at least 3 DEEP splinters and one contusion per visit. The swings were all 60 feet high and you could only get off of them by jumping at the apex of your highest swing and shattering both ankles as you landed squarely in the soft mix of jagged gravel and broken Coors bottles.I thought these injuries were just a rite of passage for all children but the playground at Ventura Park is like a Cirque du Soleil training camp made of safety equipment. Slack rope bridges, an AstroTurf hill with 3 foot thick guard rails that double as slides if you bring a piece of cardboard, and the ground is made out of Nerf... stuff. I didnt even see a single sign of any child predators of any kind. Not even an unmarked van.Great Park. Going back tomorrow.

I attended an NA meeting at the park which is very relaxed and close to home.

A great place to take the kids! Great walking paths suitable for scooters and small bikes. Some shade some sun.

With COVID going on, the wife and I took dinner from Saylers for a picnic. Lovely evening got it and watched children playing on the recently redone playground.

Lots of different little adventures. Can spend a whole day, so pack a lunch and get ready for some fun.

Awesome set up and has bike jumps

Nice big open park on the grounds of Ventura elementary school. Dog friendly, and bike friendly.Plenty of places for kids to climb on various safe structures. Also great for pick up basketball, or any other sport. Its beautiful in the fall to see the color changing trees.

Always love coming here on beautiful days like that.

Cuz its a nice quiet place for parents and kids to relaxing and have fun

Awesome park! Usually packed with kids to play with

Small quaint park for children, walkers and picnickers. Lovely

Great place to walk the dog.

Fun space to play. Playground is different than any other I have seen. Has a water feature that looks like it would be super fun in summer. One downside is there is a parking lot fairly close to the playground so need to closely watch your kids if they are darters!

Great Park. On the school side there are two more traditional playgrounds. Theres a bonus area with two swings and a little donkey.On the other side theres a really amazing playground. The center piece is an AstroTurf hill. Kids (even adult ones) of all ages slide down on cardboard resulting in endless fun. There is often extra cardboard to be had, but it gets cleaned up daily so best bet is to bring your own. Theres a cool water feature,but the water pump seems to be broken more often than not. Theres also a Portland Loo right by this playground.Aside from playgrounds theres wide-open spaces, soccer nets, trees, some cool sculptures, and a pump track (for bikes).

Amazing park with so much to do no matter how old you or your children might be. Lots of shade to relax, or open grassy space for picnics or sunbathing. 4 parks each with fun unique draws to them. There are swings, slides, bouncing discs, water features, a pump track, winding walkways connecting all play areas, and best of all A BATHROOM! so you can easily spend a summer day here with your kids and not have to leave in a hurry with crying kids because one has to tinkle. They really thought of everything here.

This is our neighborhood park. It is a huge park, with lots of green space, walking tracks, a dirt track for bikes, a newly remodeled playground with a water play feature (summery only) at the SW end, and access to the elementary schools playing field and more near the NE end. The walking trails are well lit and we often go after dark.

My favourite place to go for PokemonGo farming. Unique art, and play structures. I dont own an RC car but they have a stunt track for that too.

This park has real potential to be an awesome hangout. Cool modern climbing area, dirt track for model RCs or small kids on bike, sliding hill with AstroTurf big grassy area. Wish the modern play area was bigger- its pretty small. More fun climbing around the corner at the attached school playground.

Super family friendly.

So peaceful and well kept

Nice neighborhood park with play structures, a R.C. track and bathrooms

Great place to socially distance on a hot day!

Awesome place to take the kids and/or hang out with friends and family.

Nice and clean the lawn 3s well take care of

Depends on what youre going here for. For kids, noon to 5 is a great time to take kids and pets for a day out. For adults that are looking for Pokemon areas or just looking to hang out for whatever reason, its OK.

I really love how theyve renovated the park. The play structures are super cute but also very artistic and fun. They fit in really well with the landscape. Tons of space for events throughout. Nice amount of shade for those hotter days. Just a really nice park overall.

My kids love it lots of room and different things to do

The dominant feature is the huge sand pit for riding small bikes racing electric cars and simply playing in the sand they also have a really interesting climbing piece across the park and some large climbing pieces for older kids. I would encourage the city to try to repair the water feature

August and the water for the two water features for kids to play are chained shut so you cant use them. What a shame. Strikers for the musical chimes are missing. Kids do love the sliding hill. Parks need more care as they are so.important.

The new Ventura Park is awesome!! There are several areas for the kids to climb on, all with rubber flooring to protect them if (when) they fall. A mound in the middle makes for some fun sliding, people even brought sleds to enjoy from the top, and pieces of cardboard have been present both times Ive visited to really get those racers down the hill. There is a super cool half bowl swing, a modern take on the merry-go-round, and a water play area fit with a (hard to pump because it got broken) pump that flows into an area set with lifting dams. And lets not forget, the fantastic art installation/metal climbing structures in the grass. Lots of area to set up in proximity to the playground. Theyve included a dirt track for bicycles, rcs, and little legs and toes to get all that energy out. What a fantastic update to this once sketchy playground.

Very great space to chat, mess around, get a stroll, or relax! Most unique play structures Ive seen--they are certainly not child exclusive

Great pump track for all ages.

Quiet park for the well minded kids.

Cute littl park!

I love this park. All of the play structures look like art. They can hold people that are fully grown like me but are still fun for the kids. Furthermore, there is actually art at the park. I want to go back. Im 28.

I went to Ventura back in the 60s-70s and back then it was the best! The teachers liked teaching and they connected with the students & families. Best school years of my life!

Its a nice park.

Fun park! They have a cool hill that the kids can slide down.

Nice park with nice play equipment

Interesting mix of homeless people and toddlers. Seems the restrooms are under construction. Enjoyed the small dirt bike park, and the rather unique play structure.

Very fun for kiddos, creative new play structures including an AstroTurf hill kids slide down on pieces of cardboard like a sled. downside can be the potential camp out in the parking lot, but that seems to have mostly cleared out lately. Good areas of shade and sun depending on your mood, plenty of benches for onlooking parents, paved walking trails, water fountain and restroom available as well.

Great park for RC cars if thats your thing which is mines an also a nice park for the younger kids to run out that energetically energetic energy they have stored up lol

Kool place for the kids to play at

So nice! Cool area with great kids play area. lots of equipment and walking area for grown ups 2. I highly suggest checking it out if youre in the area and have young children. There are also rest rooms available for public

Well taken care of by the city. Very nice park and during the summer they show movies at night in the park for kids.

Still good

The play structure look like art. Theyre strong enough for grown ups. Its well maintained (or maybe just new). There is actually art there as well. The bathrooms look fancy.

Bring a cardboard box, as the kids use them to slide down the hill. The RC car track is cool too. Something for everyone here.

Newly updated. Lovely surroundings. Great place for families. Lots of interesting things for kids to explore and play on and ride bikes on.

Nice park with lots of area for kids to run around. Plus little turf hill top to slide down! My 20 m/o loves it

Beautiful place to hang out, but not the most pretty view of the river. Its best for taking pictures when the cherry blossoms bloom! Also, love the chill atmosphere, lots of people around not in a rush. This location is a nice distance from shopping and good food as well.

Nice park just too bad they had to take out the toilets due to vandalism.

Its a park . . . Its a few blocks from my house. I go there to do some TaiJi or eat lunch. It does not have any area enclosed to take your dog off leash. Otherwise its perfectly nice.

It was clean and very pretty

Its very nice and quiet there! The parks always clean and the other guests are always very nice, and social. My husband and I enjoy it very much.

If you are sleeping in your car overnight it is a safe place to do so. I was very surprised to find it quiet and relaxed feeling.

Nice play area for kids. Usually a few folks sleeping around the park. Great spot for Pokemon go

NEEDS UPDATED PHOTOS. Fantastic park for all ages. My 4 yr old especially loves the dirt bike track. The astro turf hill is great.

I really love how theyve renovated the park. The play structures are super cute but also very artistic and fun. They fit in really well with the landscape. Tons of space for events throughout. Nice amount of shade for those hotter days. Just a really nice park overall.

Nice little park, I didnt see any crackheads, so thats a plus.

Clean park. Mostly populated with people having a good time at the playgrounds, exercising or engaging in hobbies (there was a guy playing with his remote control car).There are usually a few unsavory characters there too- youll know when you see em. Mad, looking like they have something to hide, etc

This is a wonderful neighborhood park next to a elementary school. There is a pathway around the park so walking or jogging is possible. The childrens area has some really kool stuff for the kids to play on. Its right off Stark St so its very clean and maintained by the city. Has public restroom.

Great to go for a walk

Cute little play structure, trees to climb and more, cardboard box sledding down a hill in the summer time, swings, and sometimes a free lunch program. I think you should bring your kids here! They might enjoy it

Clean,nice, something for everyone... Benches in couple places so u can visit the different sections of park. We had big blanket and a picnic. Right on the bus line. Plenty of shade.

I was only there for 5 mins but looks fun but looks can be deceving so I gave it a 3

I really liked that this location has continued to grow and update. I used to go to this location as a kid and now I am able to take my children.

Its a well designed place to go with the kids.

With three different play areas to choose from, a musical wind chime/percussion thing, walking trails, a bike pump track, and an interactive water feature, this park is hard to beat. Awesome for wearing out the kids.

The park has been renovated and my son loves it. The pump bike track was not being used so we used it for our rc trucks until we broke them. Then played basketball and some soccer. The park is huge, so keep your kids close, because its in a bad part of Portland.

This is the best part for kids and families. Awesome play equipment!