Hecker Pass-A Family Adventure

Wow! Went here for my first time with my boys and it wasn’t that great!!! The employees need to be more excited to work there! Geez! And the park needs to open a little bit longer than 5pm especially if we come far away! A little more excitement in the rides or more water features !! My boys were sad that our adventure ended so fast! =(

Back before it was called Gilroy Gardens.
Back before it was called Bonfante Gardens when I worked there one summer.
This place was called Hecker Pass-​A Family Adventure
I went there a couple times back then for my parent’s summer company picnics.
Free food, mostly BBQ and green stuff. Clown balloons and face painting. Some small ghetto carnival games. A train ride around the park. And the most fun was spending like 1 – 2 hours in their pool. Not sure if that pool still exists.
But yeah, this was a 2-​star company picnic location. I had more fun when my parents had their company picnics at Great America, Raging Waters, and even Blackberry Farm and some random picnic location on some road off in the cuts on the drive to Santa Cruz.

Excuse me? Hecker PASS is now a THEME PARK?
It sure is a BORING one if so.
Maybe they just wanted to offer something in the vicinity that is MORE BORING than Bonfante Gardens.
Just kidding, it’s a wonderful family park. But Hecker Pass is just a ROAD as far as I know.
My wife and I found a dog on it one time, running right down the middle. Old guy. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t going to last long that way.
We gave him a ride into town.
That was kind of adventurous. Maybe that was the theme park– Hecker Pass Dog Rescue Adventure…