Golden View Park next to Golden View Grade School and
Farm is a little bit of country in the middle of the
city.
Golden View Park
Wrenfield Drive and
Cobra Lane
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
Golden View Park is a 2.5 acre Huntington Beach park
that includes a playground, dirt volleyball courts with
room for two games and a meandering field leading to a fenced farm
yard. If you want to purchase a house nearby, the law of
the land is that bunnies, chickens and ducks can come
bounding into your yard at any time and if you hear the
rooster crow, it is sunrise--time to wake up.
Golden View School and Park have been a mainstay of a
north
Huntington Beach neighborhood for several decades. Many
students have passed through the gates of a
unique two-acre Student Environmental Learning Facility
(SELF) at Golden View School. The fenced farm contains a
combination of flora, fauna, a deciduous forest, conifer
tree area, a stream and pond, and a variety of animals,
such as sheep, pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, geese and
rabbits. Academic lessons include an opportunity to
learn about responsibility by caring for the animals and
maintaining this special outdoor learning lab under the
supervision of S.E.L.F. instructional aide. A
western style corral for the animals and a large garden
with raised planter beds are examples of the ongoing
development of the farm. Parents and students
support S.E.L.F. through their fundraising efforts and
working on the "Farm" during the weekends and summer.
The farm has long been a learning tool for youth in
the school system. They take educational courses about
animals and receive hands-on experience with lessons
around the farm yard interacting with mostly docile,
though sometimes unpredictable creatures.
The playground at the public Golden View Park
adjacent to the school includes a Playworld Systems
jungle gym with tube slides, ladders to climb and the
color scheme seen in the play sets throughout Huntington
Beach, red, blue and white. There's a stand along swing
set with two baby swings and two regular belt
strap-black swings for children and adults. Yes, at many
Huntington Beach parks, the adults like to swing. It's a
primal thing that's really lots of fun!
A volleyball area contains poles for two sets of
nets. There's also a tike-size batter's cage fenced area
overlooking a large green field perfect for youth
softball. Several tennis courts and basketball courts on
the school property are used by the public on weekends,
after school hours and when school is not in session.
Golden View Park does not have public restroom
facilities and has no picnic tables.
Huntington Beach
Parks
The City of
Huntington Beach (California) is the caretaker
and steward of the Huntington Beach public park
system. Two departments involved with Huntington
Beach parks are the Community Services
Department and Park Maintenance. Park Maintenance is
responsible for maintaining approximately
70
parks and public facilities, totaling 598 acres,
169 playground apparatus and irrigation
systems.
Park
Maintenance is also an
integral component in
special events in the City,
closely working with
Community Services to set up
for events and activities
that take place on or near
park facilities. Community Services not only
handles the rental of the
park facilities but also
operates programs for the
public that include softball
leagues, exercise classes,
cooking, dancing and other
types of interesting and fun
things to do.
For more
information on park
maintenance call (714)
536-5480. For information
on park facilities or to
make a reservation call
Community Services at (714)
536-5486 or the phone
numbers provided on the
featured parks pages.
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