Ganesha Park

Wow!!! Previous reviews don’t lie. This park has some very sketchy characters, I jus went for a run there and besides the inoffensive homeless people hanging out there, I did come across a bunch of gangster looking fellows at the top of the hill and several vehicles parked with «guys» just sitting there, who knows waiting for what. Quite unnerving, I do not recommend anyone to go here, not even during the day.

I used to work at the pool like 7 years ago, I’ve always liked this park. If anyone thinks this park is bad now you didn’t know it before! The jungle gym now is great! Do you want to know what it used to look like?
Damn metal bars, a sketchy ass tall slide I saw a kid fall off of, and squeaky swings. It is a lot better then it used to be. The homeless are still an issue and yeah there are gonna be alcohol bottles, trash, condoms, etc. When I worked at the pool it was owned by the city, then switch to the YMCA. I can tell you… you don’t ever want to go in the pool. I didn’t after I worked there. Let’s put it this way… someone has diarrhea in the pool and we don’t close down. Let that sink in.
But anyways I used to love walked through the hills, it’s beautiful. The remains of old houses, big trees, secret trails, it’s great. Be careful and carry a weapon like a small pocket knife. There are wild animals and sketch people. If you wanna hike during the day okay. This is not a place to go at night. Honestly unless you’ve lived in Pomona and frequented this park you gotta watch your surroundings. Everyone knows you don’t go here after 4 with children and you definitely don’t go here alone.
It’s a nice park during the day. And honestly most stuff wouldn’t go down but it’s so secluded with trees that late night shenanigans are hidden. But hey I still like this ghetto park (:

The pool here is great. But, the park is another story. I would bring the kids to swim, then have a picnic somewhere else. I came here a couple of weeks ago. After swimming, we went to the park to eat. Big mistake. There were transients, crackheads, and drug dealers everywhere. I swam here as a child, and its sad to see that the park hasn’t changed in terms of those who inhabit it. The police know what’s up so they don’t even bother to come here unless someone has been shanked. I told the kids to eat quickly because the scent of blunts and urine were just too much. I was done when a lady dressed in only a T-​shirt and sandals walked by with a cup of soup in one hand and a pipe in the other. I wish the city would do something about this park. Its not safe on the outside of the pool and really sad for kids to have to see this stuff.

Join the Claremont Symphony Orchestra at the Ganesha Park band pavilion in Ganesha Park Sunday July 12. Regular concerts all summer on Thursday nights from the Pomona Concert Band, and the season closing performance from Claremont. A beautiful park, upscale music and fun, shows in the evening, about 6:30 pm. Free admission, free seating, great music. Been there all summer for PCB.

The park has many cool amenities. However, too many homeless living here, empty alcohol bottles, trash, and suspicious activity. This did not feel like a safe park.

This park is suitable for fitness purposes. I run here often using the back roads to get protection from the sun using the tree canopy. The best part here is the stairs over by the hillsides that can truly get your blood flowing! Warning though, this isn’t the best place to bring a family around because there are a considerable amount of transients and drug use that goes on here and there. If the park was free of those elements then this park would totally be a 5 star park.
Currently, I don’t advise that people hangout here after dark because mosquitoes can be rampant and leave their mark on you. There can also be shady characters hanging out. Best time to be here is before the sun goes down. Sounds scary but it’s a cool place if you just look out a bit.

Homeless people, spent condoms, trash everywhere, bugs everywhere, little ghetto kids running a-​wild like some Lord of the Flies prequel. Lots of weird people in the parking lot doing who knows what… creepy and disgusting!

This would be such a beautiful park if there wasn’t so many homeless people taking over half of it. Homeless people live in the giant picnic table area next to the swimming pools, and they also now inhabited the toddler play ground above the pools. The graffiti needs to go. The restrooms need to be cleaned daily and fixed.
The small hiking trail on the mountain is nice yet you can hear people yelling at times and you see strange people climbing up into the mountain and disappearing.
The pool area itself is great! It’s clean inside the facially. My daughter took swimming classes their by our local YMCA staff and they were great.
Overall, this park needs to live up to the scenery it has. The city needs to step up and take over this area and take the solicitors out of there. It’ll be more safe.

During the daytime, not enough trees near the playground. There are more than enough trees where the picnic tables are. I don’t like the bees during the summer, it kills picnics when you gotta combat bees from you’re food. I love the pool though. They have a slide and clear borders for the shallow and deep end. Worth the pricing when you don’t have a pool. I like the summer entertainment, music, movies and bbq’s. When its a little bit darker during the winter or spring time, the kids get enough biking space. I hate when they insist in the sidewalks where we live… so I bring them to the parks. There’s tons of people who bring their dogs, I don’t appreciate the parents who let them lose without leashes. It clearly shows the rules, leash your dogs. There’s enough to do here when you don’t want to spend too much.

Wow. What a bummer– this place has potential to be a total gem. Neat houses on the hill, tennis courts, walking trails, a covered amphitheater. However it’s biggest issue is trash and the fact that a-​holes dump their pets here. Since moving nearby, I’ve had to make almost weekly calls to the Humane Society, one involving a bloody Maltese that was left cowering in pain. It’s getting really old. This ghetto park needs security patrol and more trash cans!!! Shows how much our city council cares about its community– clean this place up! Especially since its located next to a cash cow (Fairplex)…

Came here on a spring afternoon.
— not crowded
— nice, clean playground with lots of stuff for my kids to play with
–water fountain for drinking
Not bad! I can’t say what it will be like in summer, or at night, but we will be back.

Tennis courts — THERE ARE BUGS ALLLLLLLLLL OVER!!! I already have enough trouble trying to hit the ball, the little bugs swarming around me is NOT helping.