Riverview Park

Love this park & it’s perfect location!!! So many fun things to do!!! But it’s often crowded so come with something to sit on & with your own shade!!! The trees aren’t mature & don’t offer much shade yet! But all my kids from 12 – 2 love this park!

What a great park for everyone of all ages to enjoy! There is a giant playground for the kids to play on, splash pad, giant climbing equipment, open fields to play and a lake. You can bring your dog and take them on a walk of go fishing in the lake. There are also picnic tables and grills available which is perfect for a family outing, although it would be nice if there were more shaded areas available. I brought my class here for a field trip and the kids had so much fun. They loved the large splash pad and played in cold water. Its also gated so you don’t have to worry about your kids wondering out. If you have children, this park is a great place to bring them and play & it’s free :)
My only complaint about the park is the bathroom. Especially since it’s a public area it should be maintained and kept cleaner. Also the water fountain should be fixed, especially since it’s getting hotter!

Ok, well the hotel is finished and dragonfly season is over, so this park gets a bump in stars. Mostly saw fisherman and a few couples and runners on this sunny afternoon. They have plenty of benches and the views are good as well. Yes, still in Mesa, but close to Tempe border, so as long as its not spring training, this is a good place to relax for an hour or so.

This has to be one of the best playgrounds of ever been to. They have a three-​story climbing thing that adults can use. There is a water spray area. There are play things for kids of all ages.

It’s a newer city park, I’ve been coming through on Cubs game days lately, Not bad not great… just a park.

AMAZING! My toddler loved exploring the toddler playground and all of the other toys, even the lower sections of the rope tower. Thank you for creating such a wonderful family/​community space!

Our family wanted to hang out, play games with the kids on Saturday so we decided to meet at this park. It’s very big and right off the 202 on Dobson. There’s plenty of parking and room to play games. They have a unique playground, including a splash pad and some kind of jungle gym-​like structure that kids can climb. There’s some shaded benches around the play area but not as much as there should be, considering the size of the place. They do have restrooms right by the play area so that’s convenient. This park also has a big pond where you can fish at. They host events here also so it can get pretty busy but it’s definitely a great park that everyone can enjoy. Just be sure to bring chairs in case you don’t get there in time to grab a bench! Like most parks, the shaded areas get booked for birthday parties so I would suggest getting there early, before most kid parties start (around noon and on).

Fun park love the fishing pond, grass and jungle Jim always go there for a fun time! (They allow dogs and have bags provided around the park)

This is an amazing park with a splash pad and giant out-​of-​this-​world play structures. My kids love this place, and I do too!

Kids love this park. Spray pads, covered playground, lake. It was pretty busy on the weekend and hard to find shade. Finally found a nice spot under a tree. People walk their dogs out here and go on their jogs. Few people fishing. It’s a little but of a drive for us but we think it’s worth it. We’ll be back. :)

Great place for families lot’s of rope climbing,
Playground walking path with a lake and water
Park

This is my 3y/​o daughter’s favorite park to go to, hands down! Here’s the breakdown:
— Awesome climbing equipment (aside from that one gigantic contraption that is a friggin death trap just waiting to happen! Babygirl will NOT be on that anytime soon!)
— TONS of grass to run and play
— Really fun playground equipment! Honestly, everything you can imagine aside from swings… which sucks because my daughter LOOOOOOOVES the swings.
— Splash pad for summertime fun (and it even has cold water!)
— Cool paths for running/​jogging, biking, talking walks… whatever.
— TONS of shaded tables
— Bathroom facilities (mostly clean)
— Beautiful lakefront with ducks and fishing.
— MY personal favorite… A STARBUCKS within walking distance over at the Wrigley West Sheraton Hotel! I take my daughter there every morning for some chocolate milk, a muffin and a walk around the lake to see the ducks! :-)
BEAUTIFUL PARK!

This splash pad is great for a huge range of ages! Our 9 month old loves charging from spout to spout as the water comes and goes. Opens a little later than it should for the summer. Open 10AM-​10PM. Tons of playground equipment around as well, but not much shade to keep it cool in the summer. All in all we still love this park.

Park has a lot of options for any age, lots of space to sit and eat with a group. Could use more swings and it is often crowded.

For how this park was revamped and the cool climbing stuff and spray pad, I give it a 5 star. It’s gorgeous.
However, I give the people that go here and make it look like a trashy, ghetto place, I give you a 1 star. We don’t live near this area, rather in Gilbert and I’ve been spoiled by not only beautiful parks, but also the people that go there also have good behaviors overall. They don’t just throw there trash anywhere, but actually use the trash bins.
We did leave because there were people that looked up to no good and people smoking wherever we went. It was a beautiful evening, but the fact we couldn’t breathe because of all these people smoking. Frankly, I don’t have to deal with smoking at the Gilbert parks.
Just because you may not have a lot of money, may be poor does not mean you have to act trashy, toss your trash anywhere and everywhere. Here the city pumps in all this money to try to make the area look better, but without people acting better, in a few years, this place will look dumpy also. What a shame.
We saw this plate of cake just sitting there on the sidewalk. What the heck? It wasn’t a small piece of cake, but nearly filled the plate and looked partially eaten. Who on earth would eat a piece of cake that is 6“x8″ big? You can pick up the plate and walk it over to a trash can if you don’t want it?
There were cigarette butts strewn near the play areas and the climbing areas. That just sickens me when people feel it’s okay to smoke those nasty cancerous sticks near areas where children play. And, some of the people climbing on the rope things, they just had rude behaviors.
So, basically we encountered more than we’d like ghetto behaviors. So kudos for the city for trying to revitalize this place, but people with poor behaviors, leaving their trash all around, throwing their cigarette butts everywhere, they really bring down the place.
They should have fines for people who throw cigarette butts on the ground and trash fines for littering.

Riverview Park existed before, but never like this! As the Cubs Spring Training Stadium was being built, the adjacent park also had a facelift.
Now the park offers something for everyone! I love to take my dog for walks around the lake and watch the ducks and geese swim around. Or throw a football around in the field with my boyfriend. For kids, there is a super cool playground with a huge Spiderman web to climb and a little water park splash pad.
The design of the park is very atheistically pleasing with rows of palm trees, bridges and curvy sidewalks making for a good spot for family picnics, bike rides or a quiet place to read a book. The parking situation is a little confusing upon the first visit to this park. My suggestion is to figure out which area of the park you want to hang out and find parking close to that. The parking near the playground seems to be hard to come by. If you live close to the park, maybe ride a bike!

Perfect place to walk around. Lots of play ground area for kids. Area for kids to get wet in the summer. Fishing area avaliable, bbq grills, & picnic tables

I give this park one star for the concept, another star for everything they have going on at the park such as the splash pad. They lose 3 stars for the following reasons:
1. Parking = not enough, poorly planned, organized, and executed. But I should have expected this coming from a facility located next to the cubs. (go white sox!)
2. Ghetto = too many unsupervised kids with parents too busy making out with their gangbanger boyfriends, gossiping about how their man cheated or their face glued to the cell phone.
3. The jungle gym climbing wall = horrible idea and lawsuit waiting to happen.

I live so close to the park that I could get there in «two shakes of a lamb’s tail.» But it wasn’t until yesterday that I finally had a chance to explore it. Once I got out the car with my little ones (two Chis), and took in the full «river view» of the place, I got so excited. The park is vast, clean, and more importantly it’s fun to be there. The playground makes me wish that I was a kid again. I’ve never seen such grandiose play things! I’m making plans to go for walks there regularly with the Chis. Wish there was an off-​leash area for them as well as more shade. I heard that they have plans to continue build towards the back area. There’s supposed plans for a hotel (Hyatt, I think) and restaurants. Glad my casa is in Mesa now!

This is a really nice park. Couple jungle gyms that are really neat. One is really tall with ropes all around it. The other is like a wave with ropes to climb on. There is a splash pad with lots of spraying water.
Very nice. Hope it stays that way.