La Pintoresca Park

Awesome park! Bring your dice and 40 oz ghetto as fuck! lol

Love that this park has various features.
The park is on the same lot as the Pintoresco Library, it is just south of the Alkebu Lan Center where you can rent for parties and other events, it has a skate park, a basketball court, a lunch area with four benches, a water park area with benches, 4 other benches under shady trees, two water fountains and 4 restrooms.
Unfortunately, due to its location, there is a constant large amount of individuals that smoke cigs and weed and gamble. But nothing a call to the police cant fix.
I have noticed that police monitor this park constantly.
This park is well lit at night.
The water area is very fun for kids to enjoy on a hot day. They have two field areas that are comfy for running, playing games, playing soccer/​football, or playing with dogs.
This is NOT an off-​leash park for dogs.
It is, though, inconvenient that if you are playing with a ball, it can roll off the park area and go on to the streets surrounding the park; which are very high traffic areas. (Raymond Ave, Fair Oaks Ave, and Washington Blvd.)
Its near a laundy place, a small restaurant and other small grocery stores and there is a decent amount of street food vendors that drive/​walk in the area selling ice cream or other goods.
They have a large trash bin on the west side of the park for easy trash disposal.
They have play sets for a variety of sizes/​ages.
I personally DON’T like the wood chips that surround the play area because it causes splinters on kids who stumble and fall and on dog feet. (Personal preference: sand)

Beautiful park, nice trees, all ruined by the ghetto people infesting this place. If you’re not a pot smoking, illiterate criminal gangbanger then stay away.

All I can say is, eh, I like more private parks this park is in the middle of Husslin and busslin

Great place to get high! If you’re looking for a place slightly off the beaten path to look at gun clips, throw the F word around, deal the marijuana, or just go for a little Sunday afternoon Drug Addict Watching, this would be your park. It kind of sucks when the screaming kids show up with their lame parents. But hey, different strokes, eh? There’s a sweet spot to sling right across Raymond, if that’s your thing. You don’t even need an MP3 player if you want to enjoy music while bounding around the ample green spaces! Familiar tunes regaling of bitches and ho’s will engulf you around every bend of this dimly lit, lush ghetto gem… But for real though, careful of the homicides…

A Skate Park on a B-​ball court
a nice Wide Mini Vert
pyramid with rail
couple ledges
a bench for skating
a flat kink rail
couple banks
water fountain
no pads or helmets required
open all day everyday

This park would be awesome if it wasn’t for all the drug addicts in it. It has a water play area, a skate park, a basketball court and lots of stuff for kids to play on. I am a nanny and happen to work for a black family. about 10 minutes after I arrived at this park I was called a cracker and told not to come back here with my black kids. And something about my white ass stealing their men. Yes. This really happened. Weed smoking right in front of kids, alcohol bottles everywhere. Racism abound. Scary stuff people.

Moved to Pasadena 5 months ago. Would love to say that this was a great park because it has so much to offer: library, skate park, good playground. HOWEVER, on a Sunday afternoon saw 3 different groups of people (some parents?) smoking weed while listening to depressingly familiar songs of bitches and ho’s. Lots of swearing, obviously high people and a fair amount of trash, all while little kids climbed on the playground and skated the ramps. Saw a man talking about his gun who then showed his partner the clip in his pants. Pasadena PD pulled up briefly to talk to some people hanging out at a house across Raymond that looked like a sweet place to deal drugs.
NOT a place to take a 4 year old. More like a location from the Wire. Didn’t help that as we left and drove north on Raymond we stumbled onto a homicide scene and had to detour home.

This park is GHETTO! GROWN Up’s smoking weed around kids. Young boys throwing the F word around. First and last time!

Great simple skatepark with a bench to grind, a flat bar to slide, and a small half pipe. Everything is positioned to get a good skate run and flows when it’s not crowded. Going to be my primary spot for flat bar tricks.

We were at this park in May with our one year old. It was horrible and we left immediately. There were teenagers smoking marijuana all over, adults doing the same thing, just hanging out during the day doing nothing, a lot of cursing, eating seeds and just trash everywhere.

Small park, but it’s the only one (that I know of) in Pasadena that has a skateboard area… WAY cool for that… well maintained too.

I’ve been coming here to play ball the last few weeks. It’s a small park, but they have a nice lighted court with some good young kids that can ball it up. Not in the best part of town, but hey, can’t really complain since it’s hard to find clean place with lights. Lights are key! Only downside is that there’s only one full court and it can get crowded. Best to bring your own crew or risk waiting 2 – 3 games for next. Overall, it’s fun and you get good cardio.

«La Pintoresca Park is located at 45 East Washington Boulevard. Hours of operation are from 6:00 am to 10:00 pm. The size of the park is 2.9 acres. Well established Neighborhood Park with large trees and open grass area. La Pintoresca Library is also situated on site. Park facilities include one lighted basketball court; skate area; picnic tables; playground area; a water park; restrooms; and drinking fountains.»
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Awesome Park, ghetto but pretty awesome… its like a mini water park, has a skate park, basketball court, icecream truck parked in there, pretty cool playground… great for kids thats into climbing to running.
Parking: Street