Mooney Grove Park

I am reviewing this park primarily for its disc golf facilities.
There are two full-​length courses at this site. The front-​side Perry Championship course is a fairly typical through-​the-​lightly-​wooded-​park affair with a couple of more interesting holes. The length of the holes on this course are pretty classic, with all par 3’s.
The sprawling Perry Outback course, on the other hand, traverses the eastern, southern and western portions of the park with some very long holes that will challenge the best. The backside course also has a couple of sizable hills that act as both target areas and tee-​off points. This area also features a low-​lying area that can function as a lake when there’s not a horrible drought preventing it from being filled.
The disc golf areas are maintained reasonably well. The front course is a bit prone to interference from non-​golfers, especially on weekends, so be prepared to skip a hole or two on occasion. The Outback course sees less non-​golfer traffic, but it does happen there too.

Shame shame on the Tulare Board of Supervisors for allowing this family park to deteriorate to the unsafe, unhealthy, unmaintained place it is today. For decades it has attracted families with children but now it is in terrible condition, broken equipment, filthy water and contaminated grounds. The 20 year improvement plan for the park is about 20 years late!

This was the second time we attended a family reunion at this park. Two years ago it was nice and green. This year not so much. I know California is in a drought so maybe that is why but you have to pay $ 6 to get in and they don’t even take the leaves.
The men’s bathroom didn’t even have water in the sinks. The women’s bathroom did.
At the small pond there was so much goose poop it was ridiculous.
My husband said he went into the museum that was fill with farm memorabilia and it was air conditioned. Which was a nice break from the heat of the day.
I was just really disappointed this year on how run down the park looked from two years ago and how they still charge you $ 6 to get in. Where is the money going to?
Come on get it together. This is a really nice park keep it up.

entrance fee-​$ 6/​vehicle
park-​forget about it if you plan to have a picnic, grass are dried, ponds are filthy! trash floating, i know its the visitors fault for not picking up after themselves, leaving trash behind so it probably flown by wind, but still the staff should take notice of this and shouldve taken care of this, too bad bec it would have been perfect for bbq parties bec they have huge grills. their were covered picnic tables too.
the only thing we liked about this park is the museum. lots to learn about the history of tulare, nice displays too. old houses & old
schools transported into the park grounds.
so forget about the park just go straight to the museum and you would be disappointed. its worth your $s

Beautiful park with historical artifacts within. Lot’s of neat things to see including antique agricultural equipment, buildings, Tulare County history, geese, water, picnic areas… The people who work there are rude and completely clueless about any of the history they are the care takers of. So look up what you can on the internet if you are actually interested in knowing about the park and its history. Unfortunately, the buildings and the artifacts within are not being well maintained. There are cobwebs and thick dust everywhere inside the mocked up displays of the buildings.

How is this not reviewed?! MG park is a huge, beautiful park between Visalia and Tulare, founded in the early 1900s by Hugh Mooney to preserve the stately oak trees and make sure future generations could appreciate them. There are playgrounds, disc golf, rowboats, peacocks (and peahens), picnic shelters that may be reserved, grills, approximately a jillion picnic tables, the Tulare County Ag Museum, and The End of the Trail statue.
The nitty gritty: it’s $ 6/​car to enter, cash only. Closed Tues and Wed, except during the summer. Open hours vary by season, the summer (after school’s out) being much more accessible than the rest of the year.
I truly love this park, its huge and beautiful, even on weekends when it is quite busy there is enough room that you’re not on top of other people. Most of my family and a lot of friends left Tulare County many years ago, including me (I made it back, after 20 yrs) and MG park is someplace we all reminisce about. :)