Rusch Park

Wonderful park, they hold a lot of events for the community at low or now cost. They have two areas with play structures. Bathrooms are decent, there are a good number of bums in the area so they could be worse. Basketball courts are neat and theres a good portion of covered area. You can easily throw birthdays or events here for low cost. Sometimes they have food truck events and those are cool. Baseball/​softball fields are nice.

Nice park, my only complaint is that the pool isn’t open for more hours during the summer. I would use that pool everyday if it was open early in the AM! As I’m sure many people would in the neighborhood :) city makes money, people are healthier. It’s a win win!

This park could be so great. I have lived near it, temporarily, at two separate times — in 2008 and in 2014.
In 2008, it was great. I took my 4yrold son here all the time. I took him, and my niece, to the pool and the playground. Easter egg hunt over the bridge/​creek. Son to the skatepark. Carnival. Etc. I do not recall ever feeling any ghetto vibes.
In 2014, we arrived to find crackheads camped all over the pavilion next to the play structure. All over the wooded area by the creek. Literally watched a drug deal NEXT TO THE TODDLER PLAY LOT with my 2– and 3-​yrolds. There is a preschool heeerrrrrrre!!! E-​fkng-​GADS. While walking there, the people who live in the neighborhood next to the gates said to our family, «You always check those bathrooms before you send any of your kids in there. And don’t send them over here alone.» Well dayum.
Now…the people on the corner have since been recognized as a lil extreme on the neighborhood watch-front…but…they also have called the cops a lot and seen gnarly stuff in their back yard. So.
The park itself though? Great facilities!!! Beautiful layout!!! Beautiful old trees and the creek in the wintertime is AMAZING after a good rain. Youth sports… preschool…adult classes… community events… Food Truck Fest on Wednesday nights!!!
The pool is a wonderful facility — but they are CRAZY there. I have never been to a public pool in any city with SO MANY rules and so many lifeguards standing around barking at everyone (they seem genuinely miserable) for breaking these rules. I have been there 3 times this past summer season. I got in trouble like 4 or 5 times each time. I’m a grown-​ass woman with children. Everyone of us was reprimanded for something every time. I felt like a child. Maybe some signs up with clearly-​stated rules for public swim??? I would totally love to obey the rules if I wasn’t only learning them after I’ve been publically humiliated over a bullhorn for breaking the mystery code. P. S. They took my daughter’s life jacket away on our 3^rd visit. We used it every time, no prob. She’s 4. She is terrified of the water. She has some special concerns. It wasn’t coast-​guard approved I guess? She uses it everywhere though. Including at this pool. But they said she eas safer without it on this last visit. So she screamed and didn’t swim. How was she safer, being able to drown, terrified of the water, vs when she was able to float up and recover if she stumbled? Happily playing with her parents and siblings? Oh my. Never again. We will frequent the pools at which she is allowed to keep her safety device. So glad we did NOT buy the family summer passes.
For some reason, Citrus Heights City Hall moved in next to the Bingo Hall (temporarily???), so as of late, there are bicycle cops all over the park and neighborhood and A LOT FEWER homeless bike camps snd crackhead transactions. Oh man. Please let this be a permanent movement. Because it could be SUCH a great park with some involvement and initiative on the Park/​Rec and City’s behalf. Goodness knows the neighbors are all tryin!!!

I really do like this park when there are events but that’s about it. I can’t even take my grandson here because I feel so uncomfortable with all the druggies and homeless people that are always there! This is a park which is meant for families — you guys need to clean it up and get rid of the nasty people that hang around there!

Great skate park. However, you have to go in the early morning if you don’t want a crowd. Fills up pretty quick. Playground has dirt instead of bark or rubber. So… we try and stay away from the park. Otherwise there is a lot of stuff to do including a pool (which you pay for) and a community center with all kinds of activities. If you also like to just run around there is tons of space.

Wow. Perfect park for kids and groups. Its well kept, has lots of shade and places to sit. A large group was taking formal pics on the bridge and another family was hosting a kids’ birthday party with still plenty of open space to roam around. My 3 yr old loved that there were 2 playgrounds. Pools, tennis & basketball courts, skate park, grill picnic areas, covered Pavilion, running path, rose garden surrounding a WWII memorial. very serene.

It is pretty sad when I live outside the gate from this park and I choose to take my grandchildren to Royer park in Roseville due to the fact of all the homeless drunks that come in and out of the park constantly with there bags of booze. I did not think alcohol was allowed in the park. They are constantly hanging around the bathrooms and I do not consider this safe for any child. The drunken homeless have taken over Rusch Park.

Its a nice and clean park. I love the fact that theres alot of big trees to hang at but couple flaws are the sidewalks I’m 16 years old concerned about the oldies. I came to visit here and i saw a granny walking her dog and she suddenly trip on a sidewalk crack. I got an issue about the indoor gym tho why cant we play as a resident on this area. Over all it is a good park definitely going to go here more and more.

I didn’t have very high hopes coming to this park because compared to other parks it’s kind of small. But it blew me away with all it had to offer and how much bigger it was in person than on a map.
This park has SO much to do! There are two baseball fields, a skate park, a stream running through the edge of the park, plenty of grass area to run and play, a paved path running around the entire edge of the park, three parking lots, a covered and uncovered picnic area, a cool bridge, a World War II Memorial Rose Garden, a basketball court, two play areas and a pool! What more could you ask for?
At about 10:00am on a Sunday morning there was only a few people at the park which was nice because my chihuahua had a bunch of space to run around and play by herself. Sure, there was a homeless person or two at the park but what park doesn’t have homeless people? There was also a Park and Rec worker there too emptying trash and cleaning out the bathrooms. Cool!
I really liked the paved path running around the edge of the park. It was nice to do a few laps around and see all the scenery! I will definitely be back to this park again because it’s really convenient to get to (on Antelope Road where it meets Lauppe). A gem for the community!

Wonderful wide open space. Swimming lessons in the summer have been the norm for us with our family. Pool staff is wonderful.

I love running here and doing pull ups. Great scenery. Must visit. LOVE nature. Like OMG. looks like a great place to host a 4^th of July in this park. It’s sofa king huge. I love it. Like, OMG, Felicia. #YOLO

This park seems to have a problem with homeless people. Other than that the park is really nice, three playgrounds, skate park, softball fields, BBQ areas, and a pool. There is a little river that runs through the park, which my dog enjoys playing in.

We have been to this park for numerous get togethers for my BFF’s nearby taekwondo school. We have been here for picnics, basketball games and, most importantly, the annual swim party. This park has lots of nice facilities like a gym, tennis courts and the very large pool. They also have playgrounds, bbq facilities and more that I am probably missing.
This past Saturday was the annual swim party, where Robinson’s TKD Citrus Heights rents out the entire pool area for three hours. We arrived early and allowed our kids to play on one of the playgrounds beforehand. It was kind of small and it didn’t keep their attention for very long, but I did appreciate that it was mostly fenced in, so their ability to take off was hindered by the one entrance and exit. I will admit that the reviewer who mentioned the homeless issue is kind of right, as there was a group hanging out in the picnic area just adjascent to the playground, but they mostly kept to themselves. I also appreicate that the park has multiple bathroom facilities, although my husband said the ones out in the main part of the park were pretty messy. There had been some sort of event there that was just wrapping up, so that may have accounted for the mess.
The pool is the real gem of this park. From my understanding renting it out for a party, with lifeguards on staff, is pretty reasonable. They even let us hold a potluck inside the pool area and offered to help us set up. The pool itself is really three seperate areas and is very large and clean. There is the main lap pool, then roped off is an area for small kids with zero entry and a large fountain. Seperate from both of those is an area with two small diving boards and one high dive. There is lots of shaded seating around the pools with both bleachers and grassy areas. The changing rooms and bathrooms inside the pool area were very clean and well stocked the entire time we were there. The lifeguards were all very friendly, even when enforcing the rules. I was on the swim team as a child and teenager, so I have seen a lot of pool facilities and this is among the best. Our two young children (almost 2 and 4) loved being able to enter and exit the pool on their own and were able to have some autonomy from mom and dad since there were portions of the pool that were shallow enough for them to walk around. We, of course, were always very closeby and also took them into the deeper areas, but they mostly wanted to take advantage of feeling like they were independent and could sit and stand as they pleased.

The homeless problem has gotten really bad here and has migrated over to Grand Oaks shopping center. It used to be a really nice park, but now it’s just sketchy. Shootings homeless camping and a dead body are not my idea of a nice park.

Excellent pool, lifeguards, shelter area/​covered to watch the pool and be out of the sun. It’s clean and 3 actual pool areas leaves one for high and low diving and one for small children and babies.

Clean. Bathroom NEVER has soap so bring your own. Bathroom is pretty grody usually so only go if you have to. Nice coverage by big old trees on a hot day. If you’re going to BBQ make sure you buy a cooler with wheels. I made that newbie mistake last year, but not this year maaaaaan…
Kids love the playground. I like it here. :)

Love this park. It has shade on the playground all day which will be real nice this summer. I take my 2 year old during the week and there are always other friendly kids there the same age.

I love parks. And compared to many other areas of smilar size, Sac County has more than enough. And Rusch is one of the very nice ones that I did enjoy for how neat and bum-​free it is. There is a cool skate/​bike park and we thought there was also a botanican garden museum. But a worker told us that there has never been one in his 4 years working there. But I’m sure the park is older than that, if there ever was one present. Overall, not much unlike other area parks, a very wide open place with trees and a cute bridge over a little creek. Great picnic spot.

I haven’t been to this park in years, but used to come here all the time for family picnics and get togethers. The park is huge, and has multiple parking lots to accommodate little league games, the skateboard park, etc. We attended the annual Pet-​a-​Palooza on a HOT summer day (110 degrees that day-​whew!). The festival had a ton of dog related vendors, a food court area, a beer garden, a dog pool area for our pooches… tons of fun stuff. If it wasn’t so hot out, we would have stayed longer than a couple hours. Both humans and dogs were in danger of getting heat stroke! But this park is a perfect place to have a festival this large.