4 Hidden Parks here in Whittier, California 

I love how much you love Whittier, our beautiful hometown. I am actually a bit jealous that you thought of highlighting Whittier on all of your social media, your podcast and blog. You are doing a great job and I wish I had your creativity, discipline and gumption. I was born in Whittier in 1969 and I’ve always bragged that I knew the most about Whittier and loved it the most but you win!!! Maybe we can talk one day! Keep up the GREAT work

I'm glad you showed Laurel park 😊 I used to hang out there after school.

Glad u r doing this I loved in Whittier my hole life Thank u Bobby I appreciate everything u do in my home town 🙏

I love all the parks in Whittier ! I remember the ducks at pen years back .. also the old zoo at Parnell Park , with scooter the horse and picklepuss the llama and willie the pig . Kennedy park , wow the memories !!

Used to walk to Laurel and Anaconda parks all the time. Laurel had a pretty rad merry-go-round when I was a kid.

Thanks for the information!

My uncle lived across the street from John Green-leaf park and one of my buddy's ex girlfriend lived the houses next to the park . You might want to check Broadway park on Broadway between Milton and Comstock it's has 2 sides one side is tennis court, bath rooms and horse shoes and it had at one time shuffleboard. I don't know if the shuffleboard is still there. then the other side had swings , merry go round, stage and Girl scout house.

Penn Park and Michigan Park. Loved those places as a kid.

My favorite has to be Laurel Park. I grew up on Carnell 6 houses down and spent a ton of time there since 1955!

The John Greenleaf one used to be a Pepsi branded playpark. Many debaucherous moments in each park back in the 90s

Lifelong resident and seriously embarrassed I did not know of John Greenleaf Whittier Park. Personal favorite is a toss-up between Anaconda Park and Laurel Park. Another fav (not mentioned) is Founders Park aka Cemetery Park.

WOW 😮. I had forgotten about these 4 parks. Thanks for bringing up.

When I grew up in East Whittier Parnell Park had a small rodeo arena attached to it and the petting zoo with a donkey that lived there for years, when the donkey passed away decades later the local Whittier newspaper even printed an obituary article about it. Very saddened to see this park become a homeless encampment. I grew up on hillgate Dr at the corner of Santa Gertrudes where there was once a horse barn and old house which belonged to Mr and Mrs Stevens. Mr Stevens was the last foreman of the Leffingwell Rancho. He was allowed to purchase land from the owners before they sold off the remaining property. He owned five acres around Creek Park. Him and his wife were living there as far back as the 1920s when he first started working on the Leffingwell citrus orchards and by the 1960s they sold their land to house developers and had their barn relocated closer to their house. They would tell us stories that were told to them, the famous story and our favorite was the horse thief who was lynched in the back of Creek Park just behind the home depot before the creek runs under imperial highway, we thought it was so cool having a hanging tree in our neighborhood even though we didn't know which one it was and that's how that part of Creek Park became known as Dead Man's Trail. Originally imperial highway was named Kings highway back when the stage coach ran through east Whittier towards Brea and Fullerton. You can find old photos of the Leffingwell Rancho and the Stevens barn on Pinterest, just look up an account under the name of the Los Angeles Historical Society.

When I was at Whittier Highschool, everyone used to hang out at the Whittier school district after school. I have videos of people fighting at that park 😂 lol

Back in my St. Mary's days, around 1991-1992 timeframe in 7th grade we used to have our flag football practice at Greenleaf Park. It was hardly a park back then just open grass with none of the playground equipment that's there now. As in matter of fact we called it J.G. Field back then.

The old buildings and aromas takes me back, very cool bro.

Thats so cool ..thx man 👣🌲🤠

I grew up a block from Michigan Park - great times!

I grew up across the street from J.G. So Manny great memories.

I love wilderness park in friendly hills. It’s not your traditional park; more of a nature walk/ light hiking. Fond memories 😊

Loved the video..and all those parks too 💯

I always liked the Leffingwell ranch park. Our home was just down the street off Santa Gertrudes and Lemon. I loved picking up some McDonalds and stopping at this park to unwind for lunch. Great stuff love your videos my friend

Jg park is what locals call it. That's where all the fights happened at Whittier high lol..also where we would go smoke a j before class 😂💯

I knew about these but forgot about them 😊

If ANYBODY has pictures of Anaconda and Parnell's Storybook Zoo circa 1960's I'd love to see them posted somewhere. I think Anaconda was the one that had the 1950's style rocketship and two 'spring' mounted riding animals. Parnell I vagely recall having a Hickory Dickory Dock clock-shaped pen with live mice and other animals. There was another park that featured huge cement statues that the school took us to. I remember making it my life's mission to find and climb to the top each and every one....even if some rotten boys were trying to hit me with live snails from the lake. (Luckily, the had terrible aim and I was used to snails from our backyard.) Thank you for posting this. I've been going through old family photos of my home town and was getting too nostalgic not to try looking things up.

I used to walk by John Greenleaf park all the time. Definitely a nice find! Probably my favorite as well.

Great video. I will visit all 4 on purpose when I come into town.

John Greenleaf, Lee Owens and Michigan were my childhood. I also loved going to Penn, Parnell and Adventure Park. Hell, even Central Park is a nice little relaxing spot. I just love Whittier, visiting again next Saturday.

John Greenleaf as well, Bob! I ♥️ Whittier

That brick building at Greenleaf park is so awesome. Crazy to think it's been there for over 100 years!

Leffingwell Ranch Park is my favorite!!! I like to play tennis there it’s always busy

Just found your channel it is cool! Thank you.

El Patio! My parents bought it back in 2003/2004 and a few years later we sold it to what is now Sage. It used to be such a staple in town, aww

I think each Park in Whittier has it's Own Character BUT Thank you for sharing the Hidden Parks We Lived right Across the street from Michigan Park Had All Birthday Party's there Good Memories... BTW The Thing was After the Party ended No one wanted to Go Home So Everyone would end Up walking Across the street to Our house lol

love all Whittier parks but stuck in Yucca Valley

It amazes me that you didn't mention Murphy ranch park .

Seafare Inn? Great fish. Sold to them. Good times.

This is hilarious how this is RU-vid content. These have been around forever and definitely had walking field trips to these parks growing up in the Whittier School District.

I dropped my Dad's keys down a gofer hole at John G Park when I was around 3 years old.

Any cool turnball canyon stories?

Don't forget Central park.

have you ever done a video on the Artdeco building of Wittier?

I thought I knew all the parks in Whittier. But I guess not!! John Greenleaf park is new to me.

Adventure Park and Mayberry are also both really nice although i feel adventure would fit the hidden label more but great list i need to check out the first 2!!

What we need in whittier is a community garden. @ryleesblooms has two urban farms in Whittier. She is looking for a spot to have a community garden. People and children should all know how to grow their own food.

Washington street for example is full of potholes .

We called it J-G-Whittier... that's it... didn't even say park. We played summer rec ball there and at other parks. The park by our house was Kennedy but didn't have a rec center or teams, so I played with the guys above the boulevard for Michigan.

Anaconda park i like it that they have exercise equipment here

Adventure Parks Is Better Then Ever

How did you forget about deadman’s park off broadway

I used to take my kids to John Greenleaf but to many homeless and high school kids who go there to do drugs and I know cause I live like 2 mins walk from there

How about the hidden land field near Mar Vista? Y'all know you can't find it on the map but Whittier is rich off e waste

WENT TO SCHOOL THERE FIRST ,SECOND AND THIRD GRAID...AFTER THAT LYDIA JACKSON..#1 JOHN GREENLEAF PARK..

Didn’t know about greenleaf park 👍 otherwise been there done that !! I’ll be planning by greenleaf park picnic 🧺👍

I love Anaconda park things to do for all ages of kids.

I've lived in whittier my whole life so none of those were hidden for me. Just be careful of laurel park. Just saying lol

I told my ex gf, I would take her to Anaconda park. She thought I was talking about something else. She broke up with me the next day.

love anaconda park for walking.

Anaconda Park

Obviously your not including unincorporated Whittier...

Why don't you talk abaoiut the streets of Whittier being full of cracks and potholes you can even get a flat tire easily.