Strawberry Hill Park

Let me take you down because I’m going to Strawberry Hill where nothing is real and nothing to get hung about. Actually everything here is real except the strawberries and hill.
Strawberry Hill Park is a tiny pocket park located off the Green Valley Ranch trail system. It is a compliment to the Green Valley Ranch trail system. With the trail system, it is an attractive and serene resting place on a walk along the beautiful trails. The grass is a healthy golf course green. Nearer the paved walking trail there is a playground equipped with a play dinosaur and sandbox by a basketball court. The exact picturesque landscaping that is throughout Green Valley Ranch is throughout the park. In similar style to the adjacent trail system it is graffiti-​free. Nearer the trailhead where the playground, mature trees provide shade over the green-​colored benches and picnic tables. This is a serene place to have a picnic, rest, or read.
Strawberry Hill is a neighborhood park. Missing from this diminutive park is a restroom and parking lot. When people visit Strawberry Hill from outside the neighborhood, it is part of the Green Valley Ranch trail system experience. The following paragraph discusses visiting Strawberry Hill Park on a walk along the Green Valley Ranch trail system using the District’s Whole Food’s parking lot as a trailhead.
After parking in the District’s Whole Food’s parking lot preferably by Cheesecake Factory, the suburban hike starts off on the south walking path of eastbound Paseo Verde Parkway. This is the Paseo Verde Trail. At this point you are northeast of the intersection of Green Valley and Paseo Verde Parkways. The Henderson Multigenerational Center is across the road. At the 4-​way stop sign, continue across Desert Shadow Trail. In a short distance, there are powerlines. At the powerlines, turn left. For a brief time you will be on a paved segment of the Amorgassa Trail. In a short distance, there will be a paved trail and landscaped wash to the left. Turn left here. From this point forward you will be suburban hiking on this nicely landscaped paved trail the remainder of the walk. The trail’s attention to design and landscaping reminds me of a Frank Lloyd Wright landscape. The parallel wash and linear park is an attractive buffer to the backyards bordering the walking path. The photogenic green lamp posts create a sense of being in Green Valley Ranch. When I walked on the trail after a recent rain there was a trickle of water running along the rocky wash that emitted the sound of a running stream. The walking pace is interrupted four times where the trail yields to four minor neighborhood drives. Between the first and second surface street crossing, the trail winds through another tiny and attractive park named Bobcat Park (interesting names in this neighborhood). In addition to Strawberry Hill, this is also a nice place to sit back and enjoy solitude in the shade. Throughout the walk, the topography is a gentle decrease in elevation. After the fourth surface street crossing, Strawberry Hill Park is on the right. Once you walk beyond it the trail concludes near an Interstate 215 sound wall. Depending on how you feel, the walking adventure can conclude whenever. The Armogassa Trail and Paseo Verde Trails that lead to the no-​name trail are walking adventures bound for the well-​decorated parks sprinkled throughout Green Valley Ranch.

This park is rarely being used but its very nice. It’s right on one of the Green Valley Ranch pathways so its easy to access. There’s a small basketball court in the back along with a small playground in sand. A couple picnic tables too!