Granada Hills Recreation Center

The park and kids play area are relatively nice but there are some homeless people using the restrooms like its a shower. I would not let my child use those restrooms by their self.
Today I saw this suspicious man, with an open alcohol container, come out of the public restroom. He must have been in there for at least 20 minutes; I had been there that long and didn’t see him enter. This guy was standing around, watching people, and moving from one location to another. He had all the parents in the play area on edge.
There’s graffiti all over the playground equipment. Those people should be ashamed of themselves.

My daughter is 3 and attends the early learning program here at the park. She absolutely loves going to preschool here and I love it too. Since she has started, her writing skills have improved greatly. She counts way higher than she used to and is learning her letters. I am so grateful for this inexpensive preschool. She is coming her next year for sure.

My daughter Luzzette attended the preschool program and she loved it! ALL of the staff is amazing. She learned so much and still talks about the school program.(class of 2014)
We also visit the park often as my daughter takes classes there (Karate and gymnastics). I HIGHLY recommend this park and its staff.

My daughter went to the early learning program over there it was such an amazing experience for the both of us. they taught her how to read, write, spell, math, gave her good communication skills that it prepared her for kindergarten the prices were reasonable cause i looked into other preshools doe the same amount of days and hours and they were so expinsive and i felt like i could not afford to put her into preschool. then I found this place and it was amazing also the teachers and i became friends that I still keep in touch with that’s how welcoming they were to us.

My niece, who is 6 now, came to this early learning program/​preschool and my sister and niece loved it so much they recommended to us to it when our eldest son turned of age.
My son just finished his first year in this program and we absolutely love this preschool!!! I have nothing but GREAT THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THIS PROGRAM and I highly recommend for parents looking a preschool for their young child.
The teachers are amazing! They are all so friendly and wonderful with the parents and the kids. Their energy and dedication to the kids surpasses some LAUSD teachers. They have fun and really creative ideas to teach the kids fundamentals to help them in kindergarten. They are not babysitters… they actually teach the kids letters numbers and all that stuff to prepare the kids for kindergarten. In this first year, I noticed a positive difference in my son’s social skills and academics.
It is the cutest little preschool ever! They go on little field trips to the library and stuff. They also do winter shows /​performances, and their little culmination /​graduation is the cutest! We love this preschool and highly recommended it!
Hats off to the teaching staff:
Teacher Jessie
Teacher Thara
Teacher Danielle
Teacher Ellie
Teacher Tatianna
for making my son’s first school experience a truly memorable one. In acouple of years we plan on enrolling our youngest son in the program as well.
~Signed,
Anthony Reyes’ dad
PS. We also enrolled my son in their general sports class and our son had a blast learning about the different sports. We loved the patience of coach chris bowman (keys) and coach Jennifer (koko).

I love coming to this park with the kids! They have so many activities here I would defiantly recommend it to any parent! They have been pretty clean about the park and inside the recreational center!

I like coming to this park because they do have a lot to do there as far as safety I can’t really comment because I haven’t seen anything illegal like other reviewers have said. They have a nice playground for kids, baseball field, basketball court, soccer field as well as indoor gym and a variety of classes to take. I usually like to come here and walk around the park and overall I feel pretty safe as well as the playground is well lit and lots of things to do for my child.
The bathroom though omg is just disgusting I would never go to the bathroom here no matter how bad I needed to go, my child really needed to go to the bathroom and omg I walked in and literally walked out it was dirty, no toilet paper, just overall disgusting.
So if you plan on going to the bathroom I recommend you go prior or go elsewhere. =X

Large park with great youth programs. They offer a wide range of classes and year round sports. New outside playground equipment helps keeps the kids cool and safe.
Only complaints is the bad parking at times.

This is a nice park but the office staff, with the exclusion of Mr Finley, is very unprofessional. If you find that you must visit, do so during the day when Mr. FInley is present in the office. The recreation leaders have little training for being around kids, and the atmosphere has descended into a very disorganized, chaotic place.
Northridge park is a much more wholesome environment.

Great place to bring your kids, dogs, dog with kids, kids with dogs or any other fetal-​canine combo.
The park has a baseball field that doubles as a soccer field and possibly football as well so there’s always an activity over the weekend.
The playground gets pretty feisty with the fetuses loose sliding down slides, swinging on swings plenty of things for them to get into.
I don’t particularly like the sand kids either throw our eat sand which in either sense is just bizarre.
The rec center itself is too legit. Great indoor basketball court, with three row metallic bleachers. Everything looks brand new!
Four different hoops on every side so multiple basketball drills can occur simultaneously.
Bathroom is –_​-​. The mirrors are that weird plastic reflector ish that doesn’t give you an accurate view of yourself and they aren’t maintained that well seeing as this place experiences a lot of traffic on the weekend. Typically park facilities.
Overall cool place !

This park has improved over the years. The playground has better jungle gym equipment and is pretty well shaded. The recreation center has all the sports stuff you could want. Just beware of the Recreation Center Office Staff… yikes! The word «friendly» is NOT in their vocabulary.