Sycamore Grove Park

This park gets more ugly every year. Want a real review? This place is dirty and heroin junkies roam here all day everyday. Bunch of littered syringes, robberies, and fights breakout here. People in the Wide Open urinating and so on. Nothing good here. Watch your step, keep away, and totally avoid overall. Highland Park for you all. Ghetto!

not a bad park. I used to walk/​jog to here from Lincoln Park when i was younger. But now that i’m older i tend to come here only for events, such as the recent-​ish Lummis Day Festival (fine, that was in June). Which had unique music venues and community participation. But it was nice.

Nice family friendly park. Though there have been a recent increase in the number of homeless people there, they keep to themselves and they don’t bother anyone as long as no one bothers them. Recommend.

Great place to spend time with friends and family, or also some where to chill and finish some work.

Yup. This park has it all. Just like Bogey and Bacall. It’s huge. Exercise equipment, fun areas, a stage, plenty of parking and tons and tons of beautiful old Sycamore trees. This is one of LA’s oldest parks. On weekends it is full of people picnicking and shitloads of little kids running around having a good time. You see birthday celebrations and folk from all walks of life sharing this space … including gangster types, who leave you alone if you leave them alone. It’s all about having a good time.

Come for the park, stay for the trees. This park wraps and runs alongside the Arroyo Seco Parkway and it is full of the most beautiful sycamore trees. Large families gather here on weekends to celebrate transitions in life from birthdays to quicineras and these parties fill the park with a light, happy and festive vibe. There’s plenty of open space to roam, or spread out and lie in the sun. There’s even free gym equipment to get your work-​out on!

I spent my last two summers completing a research project at Sycamore Grove Park, and I must say that this is a great park with a very friendly community.
They have some great outdoor gym equipment installed in this park. I love seeing people take advantage of the equipment, it’s nice to see a community that’s focused on healthy living. The outdoor gym is busiest in the early morning and then right after work around 5pm, so it’s pretty hard to snag your favorite machine during these times. There is a playground right next to the outdoor gym, which makes it easy for parents to exercise while keeping an eye on their kid.
The park also has a good running/​walking trail around the perimeter of the park — a loop and a half is about a mile. There’s a lot of trees for shade — it’d be nice if they planted trees near the outdoor gym though, there’s no shade over there.
They have group exercise classes in the early morning, it looks like an aerobics class.
It can get a little loud because it’s right between the 10 freeway and a busy road. If you’re focused on a workout, though, I find it’s easy to tune out the noise.

Great park to check out. It has two playgrounds for kids, and across the freeway bridge is the awesome audubon center/​debs park if you want to check out more things to do.
As the name implies, there are a good number of great Sycamore trees growing there. What I like the best is the outdoor work out area you can use to work out your muscles. Its no muscle beach like in venice, but its a great addition to a park for those who like to both do cardio (jog around the park) and strength (outdoor machines)

I love this gem of a park. As a dogwalker that walks 10 dogs at a time, there is a ton of open space to move around and be free to roam the terrain. There are paths that run along the freeway, a super cool bridge that goes over the freeway and leads to more parks and bike paths, and tons of play areas for the kiddos. It’s funny that this park is smack dab in the middle of Highland Park, but it’s so easy to pass by, which means it’s often wide-​open and quiet. I love coming here mid-​mornings for a super peaceful walk with the dogs and tons of friendly people to chat with.

Best park ever!!!
I have lived about 2 miles from this park for over a year and only recently did I discover its awesomeness! There are 2 playgrounds, one for younger kids and a slightly bigger one. There is a community theater stage which is the cutest thing ever. Also, there are trails for jogging/​walking around the edge and a whole workout area.
There are also plenty of benches and tables for picnics, reading, people watching, whatever. I go about once a week and enjoy a jog and a good read.
Usually plenty of parking as well :) The only drawback would be the excessive graffiti on the bridge area behind the park going over the freeway but as an urban girl I appreciate the beauty in that as well.

I love this park, it’s great place to relax, play catch, people watch. It’s old, and good.

Awesome park for quite a number of reasons: it’s as green as it can possibly get with tons of funky trees to provide shade or for one to try to climb. There’s literally infinite space to play catch or go for a jog undisturbed here and as mentioned earlier, some (highly rated) food truck options in the vicinity as well. On the weekends, the park provides a great family environment. Truly one of the gems of Highland Park.

Quiet and nothing distracting to warm up my legs with a good walk before I ran through the city.
Training for a marathon I’ve had to stack up the miles and being someone who gets bored quite easily I needed to find a change of scenery; that is how I found myself here.
It’s spacious and like other reviews have stated it is more Sycamore Grove than Highland Park. It’s fairly clean and I wouldn’t mind coming back.

This is a fantastic park. It has a new play area for children and a wacky, but fun exercise area. If nothing else, the people watching is good.
This is where they hold the lummis day festival which is always fun. I’m happy to have this park in my neighborhood.
Just a little side note — This park is shared by the communities of Highland Park and Sycamore Grove, however! it’s location is smack dab in the middle of Sycamore Grove. So if you live near this park and you think you live in Highland Park… you may actually live in Sycamore Grove.

I’m scared to review this park and well, pretty much anything in my neighborhood, because I want it to stay the same. People fear Highland Park and I’d love to keep it that way. I just couldn’t resist this though.
As you step off the Gold Line Southwest Museum stop, across the street lies a sprawling, lusciously green park. A Highland Park neighborhood staple, the park provides WAY more than most «fancy» parks that I’ve been to in «nicer areas». That’s just as well. Stay outta my neighborhood, yuppies.
Here is what gives this park my 5 star vote:
— Tennis courts. Older, but still in lovely working condition, they are FREE. Best part is, that I never see anyone using them. So who wants to show me some tennis moves?
— Walking around the park is good exercise and the back trail leads across the freeway to the other, larger parks: Debs and Arroy Seco.
— FREE outdoor gym equipment. Seriously, they’ve beautifully renovated this park with niceties such as this. Kudos, HP.
— Plenty of BBQ grills surrounded by picnic tables and shady trees.
— A kids playground in fantastic condition. As I was finishing up my walk this morning, I was almost tempted to run across the kids bridge. I need to start babysitting, so I won’t look like the crazy lone adult doing this. LULZ
Overall, this park is a wonderful place for the residents of Highland Park. I said RESIDENTS. For all you others, HP is a violent, dangerous, gang-​infested place where you won’t feel safe. Don’t come here. Really. You wouldn’t like it.