Farnsworth Park

Great place to sit on a blanket on a sunny day. We love to walk our dog here (and, yes we always pick up after her!). Generally a peaceful little park.

When I was 12 years old, I made the All-​Star Little League team. Our first game was at Farnsworth park. I don’t remember too much about the game, but I do recall getting two hits: one with the comebacker that broke three of the pitcher’s ribs, and the other one probably would’ve been a homerun, if it weren’t for that weird and bizarre hill that rises up in the outfield towards Lake Avenue.
These days, I don’t really go to this part very much, except to refill my water bottle when I’m going to hill ride towards the top of the Lake on my bicycle.
Like many communities, elevation seems to improve the quality of life for residents… Or at least affect home values. Like many of the parks around Pasadena and Altadena, the occasional Group of teenagers or tough guys might be hanging out. But local law-​enforcement and the community itself does a nice job of policing and reporting this kind of activity. This is a safe park to take your family, have a picnic, walk your dog on the leash, or in my case stop in and take a brief siesta after an arduous pedal climb up the mountain.

I’m only here to use the restrooms to/​from an Echo Mountain hike (
). Every time I’ve been here, there’s enough toilet paper, toilets that flush and running water. What more can you ask for in a public restroom?
It’s only a block away from the Echo Mountain trailhead south on Lake. But I do notice there is a baseball field, tennis courts, many picnic tables (sheltered and un-​sheltered), and there’s a Memorial Building you can probably rent out for events.

Great place to hang out! Bball an tennis courts, 2 baseball fields, lots of open spaces for a picnic. Safe and quiet! Grounds crew does an excellent job maintaining this park, always clean!

I really like coming to this park because it has plenty of parking and it is usually not filled with crazies. It’s also super cheap to rent the field or venue. If you want to rent it at night it’s a little extra. The bathroom are sucky, but it’s a public restroom. I’m just glad that there is plenty of toilet paper here all the time!
The staff are super nice. They’ll say hi and ask how your day is going if they see you.
My only complaint is that sometimes there are couples that like to hide out in the bottom corner of the north baseball field to get frisky behind the overgrowth. That’s the section of the park that isn’t as well kept because there are homes adjacent to that side. Sometimes I’ll bring by the dogs or watch my bf give baseball lessons to the kids in little league, and I’ll see a young couple getting hot and heavy like no-body’s business. Occasionally, you’ll even see kids smoking not-​so-​legal stuff.
I guess my tip is to stay closer to the playground and the lower baseball field. That area is open and visible to everyone. No frisky business there! Thank God!
The picnic area is nice and shaded. I like to study there sometimes.
Overall, a great park!

We reserved the William Davies Hall for our annual work retreat area to be used for the majority of the day’s events. since we went with a western theme this year the building played well with our decorations and costumes. We had plenty of space to set up tables for the breakfast and snacks. no need to worry about keeping the food fresh since there was an almost complete kitchen with an Ice machine to provides us with plenty of ice for the day… as the day continued to lunch, we sat out under the covered benches while we where waiting for our lunch to be made, it was a little chilly and seating on the concrete benches just made it a tad chiller, but once we where fed, we where ready to enjoy the games I had planned for the day, since it was at the park, we utilized the grass field to play tug of war, we used the outside of the building for our scavenger hunt and the acoustics in the building made for beautiful music song by our staff. The only think I heard complains about was the restrooms where getting clotted up… so as pretty and with your imagination this venue can be used for any event from a wedding to a birthday party (plenty of parking for our 55 staff) to a retreat, but the bathrooms really do need an upgrade.

This is my local park and I love taking my dog here on walks. It has a beautiful backdrop of mountains, and an awesome amphitheater that has free shows in the summer. There are places to have BBQs, basketball courts, tennis courts, a playground, and two baseball fields. The Davies Building is a cool old building built from river rocks… must be 100 years old. Love this park!

I recently reserved the Upper Davies building at the park for my son’s 1^st birthday party. It’s reserved through the LA County Department of Parks & Recreation. This place was a good find for us. Since my son’s birthday is in September — aka hotter than hell we knew we had to have an indoor party where AC was a MUST! The upper davies building is great as it accomodates up to 200 people, includes tables & chairs, and use of their kitchen. The kitchen also includes an ice machine, which was one less trip we had to make day of the party. The only downside to this place is the lighting. It would have been great if it was brighter. I think our photos would have ended up much better than they did. But I think it’d make a great venue for a wedding reception. They have an amphitheatre right outside, which I believe you can use for an outdoor wedding ceremony if you wanted to.