White Park

I like this place. I married a couple and their wedding was very lovely.
I am a wedding officiant and I travel to many locations.

Here is my review for this place
The pros: it was fairly quite during the ceremony. You get guards for the gates to keep strangers out.
Cons: you may here sirens. There is limited parking near by. You can use parking structure but the walk is far. If you park by the senior center and use their entrance to walk in to the park, when you go back to your car you will have to go all the way around the park in order to get to your car. All the doors in rear of senior center are closed.

My first time here was for the Tamale Festival this year. The park served its purpose for the event. More than a dozen tamale vendors, a live band and dancing. Shout out to the tamale place from Escondido. OMG their pork tamales were the best I’ve tasted. I wish I could remember the name, I would drive there tonight for a dozen. Can’t wait for next years festival!

It’s a beautiful park — the gazebo, the fountain, small Japanese garden — the reason for the 1 star? Homeless people everywhere. As I’m walking into the park, they were staring at me. Once I sat on a bench, a few got closer to me, 2 of them asked me for money and food but I didn’t have any. I was just trying to eat my sandwich in peace. Then a homeless lady started taking a shower by the water fountain with a small bucket she had. Thank god she didn’t take off all her clothes. I didn’t feel comfortable so I left before I even finished my sandwich.

Pretty cool park, the gazebo can be rented out, the hand carved fountain and Japanese garden both held my interest. The plants also interested me too, overall it was a cool environment! Seems like a great place to kick a soccer ball around or play other sports. Unfortunately after bumming a cigarette from a group of people I was offered weed, pills and cocaine by one of the park patrons. This was around 6:30 so I guess you might want to avoid the place at night.

Visited 7÷13÷13 — Beautiful park! Disturbing occupants. We chose White Park as the location for our daughter’s 6 month photographs. Upon parking, our photographer pointed out a transient female who was urinating in a plastic cup she dug out of the trash can. She threw it back in the trash, resulting in urine spilling all over the pavement near the senior center. There were six different groups of homeless occupants set up around the park each with shopping carts and trash bags filled with clothes and miscellaneous items. Two groups were shouting threats and profanities at each other One man threatened a female «don’t let me ever catch you in White Park again!» Each group then began eyeballing us and sizing up the photographer’s equipment and our stroller. We immediately identified the area as unsafe and departed promptly. It is so sad because the park is so beautiful, but overrun by homeless /​transients.