Jordan Park

Very cool park on one of the main streets in Glendale, which means it’s simultaneously both generally kept up better as well as usually fairly steady. Grounds are always nice and maintenance workers are a frequent sight, there’s a good amount of shaded parking (parking seems pretty good overall there) in case you want to a good spot to take in your lunch (I definitely took plenty there), a large field, decent playground equipment and the excellent Peace Gardens, which seem very popular with the picture-​taking set. This is on the outskirts of the worst of what this particular section of town offers and there seems to be at least a reasonable amount of police monitoring, but seeing the actual locking barrier gates for the night-​time closing will go a long way towards driving the point home that this is perhaps not the best place in which to find oneself after dark. Given the park closes before it gets all the way to that point, that shouldn’t be a situation to run into, but still… all in all, if you’ve not yet been, it is well worth checking out.