It is a nice large Park with great pond, ducks, fish. Two baseball fields and playground. several picnic areas. lots of Green space. They have basketball and volleyball. only downer is a lot of homeless people and the bathrooms are better, it's a busy park and not a lot of maintainence good into it compared to done other parks that seem to have more rangers and such, things getting a bit run down, but they try. There is still a lot of homeless/displaced people that are often sleeping or wondering, seems like some living in a trailer in the parking lot but I'd recommend the park still. I would remind that dogs should be kept on leash, busy streets and not all dogs are friendly if yours runs up on it protect your dog be on leash

This is is a big park. Bathroom was a mess. Kids made trash of styrofoam cups while the party by the basket ball court could care less. The homeless there were more respectful of the park by being neat, tidy and had their own table and chairs. There is a pond for fishing and exciting bridges and waterfalls to walk past. The play equipment was amazing. Plenty of party pavilions with grills. They had the newest play equipment, very exciting.

Place looks like it used to 10 years ago. The grass is nice. Looks new and well maintained. The ponds are huge with ducks, geese, fish and some tadpoles. It has 2 playground for toddlers and bigger kids. Saw some guys fishing and families everywhere. Looks clean Many people were biking and skating around the park. We also saw a couple homeless people out in the far ends of the park camped out in groups. They kept to themselves but they had lots of carts full of stuff with them.

Really enjoyable park. Very clean. Not much homeless on grounds. Nice to see the ducks. :):)

Park was okay. I would stay far away from the bath rooms. The homeless have taken them over. I went there to fish. 3 hours and I only caught garbage at the bottom. Still it was nice to cast my line out.

Nice open space for the kids to run. Ok during daylight hours. Homeless take over park at night.

They stock it twice a month with catfish and trout it's a nice place to take your family and hang out

I like this park , green grace over there , big lake , you can do fishing, trees, car parking 🅿️, playing area for your childrens , you can walk your dog there , you can practice sport too , enjoy your lunch there , listen music .....I just don't like the restroom 🚻 are very dirty, I get some pictures for you guys

I like this park. Very fun to take the kids here. They enjoyed it and so did I. I like that it was well maintained and very clean. Lots for the kids to play on and lots of room to run around. Lake is cool, and people fish in it. Don't fall in looking at the ducks. That said, it's a rough neighborhood. Keep an eye on the kids. Don't let them play alone. Leave as soon as it gets dark. Good luck. Have fun! 👊🤘

Too much homeless people

Homeless, and drug paraphernalia discarded

This is my community park. I visit numerous times weekly to walk and relax. It is a beautiful well treed park with a large duck pond, fishing, a variety of water fowl, two baseball diamonds, walking trails, 4 verandas numerous picknick tables, a basket ball court and volleyball court. Yes, there are numerous homeless reclining on the grass and gathering in small groups. They are generally quiet, friendly, keep to themself. If this is a stressors it might not be comfortable for you. As for me, I love it all and the park workers keep it remarkably clean and deal with any concerns quickly. P.S. The restrooms do need some help. I wouldn't recomend them.

Nice park. Children playground is great. But don't go after dark. Homeless people sleep there

Nice park to take the kids. We enjoy taking our daughter to play on the playground, it has a variety of play equipment, all kept clean. Lots of open grass space for activities... open enough to fly a drone. Baseball field, basket ball courts. Large "lake" for fishing. Nice little open area to enjoy the "waterfalls". Overall nice park, not too heavy on the bum activity either. Its kept pretty clean and regularly monitored by park services for safety!!!

I used to love going to this park. 8 years ago it was awesome, clean, nice grass, clean water and water fall. It was beautiful and always a joy taking my younger siblings to this park. Coming here again 8 years later I was saddened by how much it has been neglected. The grass wasn't like how it used to be. There was bums camping out next to the park and canal. They brought their trash with them and had mattresses laying around the grass in plain sight. Trees were laying on their sides with roots sticking out of the ground. The ponds that weren't dried up were littered with trash and just had smelly bums hanging around the place. It was just sad to see.

Nice park, 3 acres, lots of ducks and geese, stocked pond for residential fishing. (Must have fishing license- see sign in picture for more details) Big playground, basketball court, tennis court, 2 baseball diamonds, lots of walkways, & open space. Started with a 4 ⭐, but had to change to 5 ⭐ due open view of skyline during sunrise.

It is a decent enormous Park with extraordinary lake, ducks, fish. Two baseball fields and jungle gym. a few excursion regions. loads of Green space. They have ball and volleyball. just killjoy is a great deal of vagrants and the washrooms are better, it's a bustling park and not much of maintainence great into it contrasted with done different parks that appear to have more officers and such, things getting a piece run down, yet they attempt. There is still a ton of destitute/dislodged individuals that are in many cases dozing or pondering, appears to be some living in a trailer in the parking garage however I'd suggest the recreation area still. I would remind that canines ought to be kept on rope, occupied roads and not all canines are cordial assuming yours runs up on it safeguard your canine be on chain.

Beautiful park but not family friendly. Large numbers of homeless with widespread drug use and some dealing. The city does its best policing problems and picking up large amounts of trash. Private security to be added soon.

Had a blast!! Water temp was nice in the big side, but cold on the little kids side.

It’s a sad state. Trash everywhere. The grass is dead and there’s homeless people harassing you everywhere you go. There’s dead fish all along the edges of the pond and inside of it. It used to be such a beautiful place but now there are so many homeless people it’s, just filled with garbage. It’s been a few years since I walked around and today broke my heart to see how bad it is. I used to bring my son there when he was a little boy but now, I would never bring a child. there out of fear for our safety.

It's a horrible place, dark, dirty, too much garbage and too much homeless they are violent with the kids

As much as I appreciate the size of the park and the pond and the playground, it's very frustrating to see it so dirty and riddled with homeless people. It's tent city and people are often visibly drugged. It's not the unsheltered community I have an issue with, it's the fact that our city leadership can't see that there's a crisis and people need shelter and help with addiction recovery. Kids should not have to see that when they go play soccer or go to the park.

UPDATE: As of now the city has added security patrols at night and the park is significantly cleaner and safer. I noticed families, kids returning. - Park has been getting worse the last couple of years. Does not feel safe at least near the fishing pond. I no longer fish here due to safety concerns. Drug use and homeless are common.

Nicer than usual as no homeless there today as they staying by the pool it seams

Very nice urban park with lakes and fishing. Bathrooms are closed due to Covid...lots of transients

A nice place to go for a walk or bring your dog.

I grew up about 30 years ago across the street from this park. I used to build the walk to this park at 10 years old and feel safe. It is now about the scariest place in Phoenix. 10 thumbs down

Great park for the wife and I. We had lots of fun feeding the ducks and enjoying the lake

No shade very hot no restrooms other than that it was fine, too hot for a park experience

Great for laying down and in the grass to enjoy life

it's an okay park.. kinda run down and ghetto but it's got the pond and good fishing.

Lots of bumbs! But my little girl loves to feed the ducks! ???

Beautiful park and great trail head for AZ Canal walk.

Clean Park, nice place to chill for a minute in the shade

Fun place to bring kids for sure

Sometimes its dark and people sleep there smells like sewer septic in some areas

We loved it. We had a great time

This park is a jewel in the middle of the city, needs a little more attention to the lake I would appreciate more fish.

(Translated by Google) Clean off (Original) Clean af

Lots of fun things to do

Weird place

Smelled funny

Nice to walk

Nice quiet park with ducks & fishing

Cute girls everywhere

Great place for a leisurely walk around the "lake"!!!

To many bums

#Shotinthedark_ Friday's 7:30pm-9pm

Good place to walk around. Most of the time a good area.

Grew up here

Quite

Nice open park with a pond...

Agree

Nah

So much fun every time ?

The pond is very dirty full of trash

(Translated by Google) This soft place (Original) Esta suave el lugar

Nice place to relax while fishing but we couldn't catch any fish. Other people couldn't get a bite either. All and all great weather to be out.

Lots of shade compared to other parks

I've been going to this park for a hundred years

I like fishing Cortez just stocked their lake

Good park for walking. Just be careful geese poop everywhere lol

Had an enjoyable time, very pretty park with a nice lake and lots of ducks. Stayed til dusk and it gets kind of sketchy, so come early.

Here now it's a great place til about 5pm then all the druggies show face .from 5:30 am til 11 you have fishing 🎣,ducks and a playground for the kids dogs must be on a leash you can cook here bring your own BBQ there is apublicpool but it's closed (covid 19) a canal with fish runs behind park and ark is huge!plenty of parking too

It's relaxing and most of the time, I like going by myself and it is relaxing and I catch big fish

A good park. Many amenities. Play ground for kids ball courts plenty of restrooms and ramadas. A lake that is available to fish at.

One of my favorite places to go when I need to recharge. Its becoming A Lil more crowded with homeless but they aren't a bother

I always love feeding the ducks and sitting in the grass to just enjoy the beautiful park

Used to be a nice park to go to. Not no more unsafe . Just be aware of the pan handlers. There have been unsolved murders on the canal behind it.

Cool park, only go during the day, can fish in lake of course if you have a fishing license.

Needs major redevelopment and cleanup.

Nice park with a pretty lake. Only thing I don't like is the homeless people and riff-raff questionable people. However, I've been there several times with no problems from anyone.

Nice park and playground

Nice and shaded, but horrible fishing.

There is fish in the water but don't try to bottom fish its full of garbage.

Fishing is ok better in summer time

Homeless shelter outside

I know a lot of people around this area. So it is a nice place to hang out. It also reminds me of back in the day when I used to have my daughter's birthday party every year.

It is a very nice place and we were there recently eating Pandas food there at one of the park picnic tables. In this time of Covid-19, it is nice to get outside and still have a little family outing kind of to ourselves. Unfortunately, parks have a reputation of having homeless people and gang graffiti in their parks. This one is no exception. So we kept a lookout for certain ones that might make us feel uncomfortable. It's sad that truly homeless ones have no place to go. Our main concern was about the Covid-19 factor and social distancing while eating there. It's we were a a-symptomatic and didn't know it, we would not want to endanger them, and vice versa. But why can't park officials get together and help these ones who don't get to go home like we do. Maybe block a bit off of this beautiful park for them to sleep or eat or pitch a little tent. Wouldn't it be better than just seeing them as the reject surplus population? Whatever drives people to this extreme isn't really the issue. But one never knows if open hearted kindness might bring them back. Just a thought.

Birds are cute but scary area

It makes a great home to a bunch of ducks & geese.

Its a lot of fun the fishing was crisp and nice. The park could just use and little freshening up

Cold

Always homeless hanging out.

Take my 2 dogs from time to time for the lake but with all the homeless people some of them leaving paraphernalia wherever they want making it not the safest place to spend the day for pets and or children

Cortez Park! I love this part I played here as a kid growing up and I've been here my whole life I love this part because there's always something fun to do there. And if you guys ever show up there you guys of course know who I am. King cash!I love you Cortez Park........

Beautiful park

Gotta love the ducks, really nice and friendly people

Great park but less maintained

I love it here!!!

Great for feeding the birds or frisbee.

This is a stop on the Salt River bike path for me. Plenty of room around the fish ponds both in the sun and shade. Bathroom facilities seem clean and well tended, although the large one at the south side near Dunlap seems to have a lot of homeless hanging out. Large playground with picnic tables and benches. Metal benches need some maintenance and/or replacement.

playing basketball at the park

It is quiet and clean for the most part. The police patrol but they don't bother you. It is my favorite place to go when I need to think.

Good park..

(Translated by Google) Nice park (Original) Bonito parque

Wish they would clean up the park and make the homeless tenants leave

Was there to fish but holy mackerel the water levels were super low! Droughts,plagues, just can't escape them biblical phenoms lately.

It was a nice quiet place to sit and watch the Ducks

Needs better trash pick up!

Nice

Great park with large lake and waterfall. Has a large group of transients that make there home under its shade trees during the day, but always have been respectful and never bothered me or my dogs. Abundant fishing and a loyal group of local fishermen. Has big playground with covers slides and jungle jim for the kids. Isn't kept as clean and manicured as Encanto, but few parks reach that high standard of grounds keeping, and Cortez Park is still a safe, clean, park to walk, read, fish, run, or meet new fronds.

This little pond is full of trash and needs to be cleaned. There is always dead fish floating as well

It's a nice park, with many amenities: soccer fields, play areas, and what appeared to be a fishing pond... that was overflowing its banks when I was there. Please pay attention to the road construction (light rail 🚈 extension) on Dunlap Ave. and where pedestrians are walking as the "sidewalks" have been moved.

Very small lake, lots of foot traffic and your typical city "lake" set up. Playgrounds are large and looked newer.

Clean and peaceful.... There was plenty of shady spots around the lake and this is the perfect place for leisurely fishing. The upkeep has regularly done and a rather large playground for the kids.

Although we have a built-in cool at home thought I'd take the grandbabies out to the water park they have an awesome time had a hard time getting the little one out had to have a lifeguard go up to him and tell him it was closing time LOL we're sure going to come back

nice features. fun to walk around and explore. quite a few neighbors hanging out. we played soccer but there are lots of sporting options and a pool and picnic shelters. lake was dirty and had trash in it but was still a nice water feature

Only 3 stars due to area not feeling safe. The pool has an awesome splash pad area for the little ones but pool was extremely full in comparison to other public pools. The area surrounding the entrance of the pool building smelled like urine. There are a lot of unhoused individuals in the area.

The park itself is nice. Plenty of space to do different activities. The pool is really nice as well. It's unfortunate that we have so much homelessness. It's sad. But the grass keeps them cool.

Google maps says that the lake is good for swimming but that is incorrect. There is a public pool that borders the park property, but swimming is not allowed in the park lake. Used to be a decent place but last couple years has seen a mass influx of vagrants and homeless camps. I have heard overdoses are common here.

It's a beautiful park, on any given day you'll find families playing games, enjoying the playground, having BBQs, fishing and just walking around. At night though....

Went to play volleyball. Was not packed. Court is cemented which is nice of you don’t want to play on the sand. Bathroom are closed though and we went in the afternoon.

It's not the best looking Park but there's catfish in the pond I just stopped in there a few times before my physical therapy to walk my dog around. Never had no issues just some good conversations with good people.

I would just like to say this is a wonderful park. And as i did observe some homeless folks. Hey did I mention they were homeless, for all you folk who judge, that means they are without homes. They have no where to go. And if you think our community or our elected officials, or our churches, or housing authorities are going to place everyone in a safe and comfortable place, you are mistaken. They are not. Most of those ppl look down on the homeless and think they all are dirty, druggies and alcoholics! I myself was a law abiding citizen . I work hard to get where I was. Respected by the community and the company I worked for. Then my marriage broke, Covid hit, and I was out of a job then an apartment, I turned to Paz de Cristo for help. They told me they had nothing to offer me...nothing. Me a 60 yr. Old woman out on the street for the first time. I'm almost certain those ppl with all there belongings in there only available transport had to feel...well how DO YOU think they feel..you looking down on them, not even knowing them or the circumstances that put them there. I know there are homeless out there that are doing wrong, but there are also ppl like you who are doing wrong too.

Cortez Park is great! It has big playgrounds and open space for fun. I liked it a lot!

Chill place, however the homeless problem in the city has become so evident that signs of it are now everywhere, including at this park. It did not used to be this way. FYI, this is not to say anything negative about the homeless population itself, I have no room to talk as I have been in that situation myself. I know what it’s like to be in that position. I am not judging, I’m simply passing information that can’t be ignored.

The hired security people try to intimidate people for no reason. They pull up on you very fast in that truck and a bunch of them jump out like some sort of SWAT team and stare you down. Not to worry too much because most of them are way over 250 lbs and can't walk that far but the City police tactics they use actually violate the park rules. They park wrong. Use intimidating ways to scare you away.