Bloomington Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts

★M

Most in the office are polite but those others are rude and do not get anything accomplished. I see calls and tickets go on for 3 years with zero effort to complete. The superintendent Jeff needs to be held responsible for his employees and his employees need to acountable for completing tickets. Also park playground designs are poorly thought out and should really be designed for 3-10 year olds. They're smaller than the ones they replace and have less group space. They are purchased with single kid in mind. Not where kids can play games and have fun together. I think they also miss the mark for the age group that use it the most and who are not yet in school. 2-5 yr olds.

★★★★★Riley Funk

We have done several activities with the parks program for our kids and each experience has been truly incredible. I have lived several places and none have had even remotely as valuable parks & rec programs. I recommend it to everyone I can. They have something for everyone, the staff are always wonderful to interact with, and the facilities & grounds are always well maintained!

★Jared Hansen

Not a fan of there being hundreds of kids in a small area like Holiday Park, it's disturbing for people who live there and you're crowding the park and pool. For as much as it costs you'd think you could pick a bigger park or have a designated building/location

★★Ashley Smith

Miller park pavilion was beautiful place to have a wedding except all of the pillars inside were in peoples way of people dancing. Also, I gave set times to have the building opened for caterers and dj to set up and no one was there. I had to call someone to come and open the building , and not something I wanted to do on my wedding day. And the people at the building were really rude about the whole set up. I wouldn't recommend this building for any kind of dance or wedding because the people were rude and the pillars are just gonna be in the way.

★★Linda Bode

Last evening we had a game at O'Neal Park and it was a late game starting at 8pm. When the game was over about 9:40 pm, we were leaving the stadium area and all the lights went out...total darkness. People trying to get down the bleachers and out to their cars and asking what happen? Can't see? In walking the road/path out of the park I stepped into a rut and went down. I am 69 years old and I thank God I was not seriously hurt. But people were using the light from cell phones to see, to help me and it was just dangerous. A situation which would not have happened if only the lights were kept on 15 to 20 minutes after the end of the game. After EVERY game the coaches review the game with the team for a few minutes and parents especially 10 year olds are going to stick around for their children. I know it was late and all of us want to get home but for SAFETY turning the lights off in a VERY DARK area was just stupid. Someone could have fallen on the bleachers, that road, anything could happen to cause a serious accident. The other issue was the bathroom by the ball field was locked and the only one open was by the pool. Quite a distance for young children at night to have to be taken to the bathroom.....another safety issue, I would not want to send my child by themselves.. Please re-think this standard, so we can all enjoy our city parks.