McClatchy Park

3500 5TH AVENUE

McClatchy Park is a 15.42 acre park. Its children’s theme playgrounds as well as an “Oak Park/Joyland“ entry archway are based on McClatchy's amusement park history. The structure in the older children’s playground is designed to look like the original wooden roller coaster, "Scenic Railway;" also included is a streetcar with trolley tracks and larger than life popcorn, ice cream cone, and candy apple sculptures. The tot lot looks like a carnival area, with a miniature railway, and has a small zoo of life-size concrete animals. The water spray structures are carousel-themed.

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Amenities

This park includes the following amenities :

• Complete Amenity Guide (PDF)
• Baseball Fields - with renovated amenities
• Basketball Courts - 1-1/2 with plus a Drop Shot Court
• Butterfly Garden with Interpretive Signs
• Disk golf course - 9-hole
• Drinking Fountain
• Jogging path (perimeter) with Fitness Equipment
• Landscape and Trees (additional to provide more shade)
• McClatchy Park history sign panel
• Pathway Lighting - solar
• Play Areas:

• Picnic Pavilion (shelter - large) with picnic tables and group grill
• Picnic Tables - individual
• Security Cameras - 3
• Skate Park - concrete
• Two Tennis Courts
• Water Spray Area*

Permitting

See Picnic page  for park permitting documents and information

See Sports Fields page  for Field permitting documents and information

Park Master Plan  (PDF)

McClatchy Park Crump-Blackwell Fields Completion Photos  (PDF)