Grissom Park

We are original owners of a house on the first street (Hartford Ave) ever built in 1969. Grissom Park was established after that by about a year. My children loved the park
while growing up, especially as it was so close to home It took many years before playground equipment was added. However the cleanliness of the park is well maintained. It appears to be a very safe, restful area to enjoy. I was just down there this very afternoon, as a matter of fact, visiting with an old friend.
We visited for several hours, quite safely, on a very comfortable day weatherwise. We saw a lot of parents picking up/dropping off their children but never did the park look too busy or unsafe.

It's one of the few parks you can just kick it in your car and relax . They have just recently installed gates to close the park at sundown so just FYI

Like every park in Bakersfield there are homeless people, or people hanging out in the parking lot smoking weed. The playground is pretty nice with a two story high slide swings and climbing all over the place. The playground has some park sand and some parts soft ground. Overall it was an ok experince, good enought for the 20 mins I spent there with my daughter.

Very clean and relaxing to just go chill at this park

From what I seen in the daytime that Park is really clean even though it doesn't have any parking and I have lots of toys and I didn't see no homeless there nice to take your kids there

Grissom Park is awesome!!! The park has Basketball, baseball field, bbq pits, playground for small and older kids, lots of grass, restrooms, great for bdays 4th of July, and all occasions lots of parking in rear and front of park very large kid and family friendly. One of the Best parks in Bakersfield.

It is a park at the end of my residential street that has been enjoyed by my entire family for almost 50 years! This last visit included my Grandson & myself, eating lunch together & enjoying our time shared.

Great place to chill

Stop by here to check this park out and it was great 👍 👌... We'll come back here again when we come visit our friend that lives in Bakersfield...

Nice park green clean and great for small family reunions like birthday party's for kids close to a lots a shopping centers.

Very nice and quiet at night time. Great place to walk your dogs 🐕

Great for b=day party
Clean
Clean bathroom
Large grassy area for sport fun

It was calm and peaceful. Not too many transients like other parks in the area

I like this park, it's quiet.

It has beautiful grass large areas....it is my favorite place to relax and just be.

Nice small park. Nice for bbq or birthday party for kids.

Nice for you to have a good time alone getting some online work done.

Good park. Never had any issues there.

Pretty nice park to take the family.

Very quiet, big open spaces & shade.