Corona Heritage Park and Museum

Not even from the city of Corona, but was poking around google maps and saw this as a place of interest so decided to pay it a visit before 2pm and was pleasantly surprised by the historic keepsakes of the location with the history of the lemons and citrus farming to relics of pharmacy and doctor's notes my gf enjoying looking at. My inner child was thrilled and amazed by catching the train enthusiast display they were putting on in a different building showing riverside county and all it's history as well as some notable locations such as north park which I may visit in the future. I had a great time talking with one of the seniors who was very knowledgeable about all the little moving parts of the build and it was just fun as an adult to admire the tiny details hobbyist have for the craft! Definitely worth a visit since it's free! Check schedule for which parts are open when.

As a guest in a wedding celebration, this place is great!- Easy to find in google maps. - Plenty if parking spaces. - All the spaces are close to each other (parking, ceremony, reception areas).- Bathroom is clean, dry and well supplied.- outdoor ceremony area was under a giant oak tree so there was a big giant shade.- there doesn't seem to be a volume restriction.As the person signing the contract, I wouldn't know.

I brought my son here for the model train museum. It's a replica of the City of Corona in 1949. The model was amazing. There is no cost and the staff was amazing. They gave us a quick class and answered any questions we had. It was a really good experience for my son, who is a train fanatic. I highly recommend this place.

Nice beautiful place to walk around and look for diffrent things here nice place to chill and hang kit

Ms. Cindi Taylor surely made our experience unforgettable in one of the worst of ways. She is an absolutely vile representation of this Museum and it is a real shame. We booked a senior photo shoot session online on April 20th, and agreed on May 15th being the date that worked best for us & our hired photographer, and were emailed a receipt. As we drove onto the venue at 6pm, we noticed that there was an event going on. Before going onto the property I decided to go speak to whomever was in the office of 'Park Manager' rather than intrude on whatever event was happening. I politely let her know that we had booked these photos a month ago, before she brushed me off saying "well that is not going to happen." From the moment I stepped into that room, Cindi made it very clear she was a deplorable, shameful, and dishonorable representation of the City of Corona & the Heritage Museum. When I let Cindi know the way she was speaking to me was unkind, she said "you're right," and got up before almost grabbing me by the arm and forcefully opening the door before slamming it right in my face. When my mom, sister, and I went in a second time to show her the receipt with our confirmed date and booking, she had let the manager, Ted Taylor know and that "it just won't happen today." Mr. Taylor did not offer an explanation or resolution. And my sister heard Cindi call me a bitch, after confronting her about that, she said "well she is one." What is astonishing to me is the manner in which Cindi conducted herself, as if she were above me, and she was in authority, she was unapologetic and laughed in our faces. Nobody should ever feel they can treat others the way Cindi treated me, my sister, and mother. The lasting memory of a milestone occasion of graduating high school will forever be tainted by how Cindi conducted herself. I would strongly advise anyone to avoid giving any form of donation to this museum as there has been no correspondence from anyone who works there about the awful experience I had. I honestly feel so bad for Ms. Taylor and that she feels the need to project how sad and miserable she must be onto others.

One of my relatives had an event at this location. The place is beautiful! My review is solely based on customer services and the catering company they suggested. We don't understand how this place has management who are not polite, without any professionalism. We had a wedding rehearsal scheduled and barely went over for a few minutes and this lady comes out yelling and pushing us out. The catering service they suggested ran over an hour late with the food, my sister had ordered rice pilaf and while waiting for the food to be served they came to inform us that something had gone wrong with the rice. They served mashed potatoes from an instant mashed potatoes product, the vegetables from frozen carrots, cauliflower and carrots mix. How can a catering company not know how to served fresh veggies? When they served the food it was cold. The lady managing the Catering was yelling I professionally to a young man while we were waiting for the salad . Again, the place is beautiful! Customer service horrible, and the catering company they suggested below average.

Corona has struggled to honor what is left of the historical homes and businesses that were at the core of a great little Sunkist-influenced town since it was founded in 1886. The city was designed around "The Circle", aka Grand Blvd. (a once famous, one mile raceway in 1913, 1914 and 1916). For me, as an owner of one of the historical homes that sits on that circle, it is difficult to understand what motivated the city decision makers to tear down and replace. It has completely lost it's old town character and is now a mish-mash of incongruities.But now, I need to get off my soapbox and gratefully thank the faithful residents who see it my way and unselfishly volunteered their time to memorialize this little town by saving some of the old Foothill Farms buildings and turning them into a small park and museum south of town. And that recognition extends to our small but mighty Historical Society that saved many historical homes from being torn down in the name of progress, by finding people willing to purchase and move them to new lots. They have saved and stored in boxes the entire turn-of-the-century Victoria Hotel that was scheduled for destruction in favor of a B of A parking lot that now graces that spot. Lacking money to rebuild, it's parts still sit quietly waiting for the millions of $$$ needed in funds. Sad but inspirational.The museum is small, with antiquities, pictures, period clothing, all lovingly donated by Corona families. There is a small gift shop, and an antique shop next door. The classes that Dennis Y speaks of, are an added bonus that draws our community together.It is a welcoming spot with a warm feeling. Mature trees, nostalgic gardens, inviting structures, a model railroad, a quiet place to see and appreciate how much life has changed in the past 100 years. Please come and visit.

Went to see this as a potential venue for our wedding. Venue grounds have a lot of potential; really liked the rustic feel and close to our family. Great outdoorsy feel without going to far. Although venue has potential, I felt as if the decisions were being made for us. Because of the staff's "fifteen years experience" working there we were being told how things "ran" there. The onsite coordinator (Cindy) kept making comments on how low budgets weddings typically worked; mind you WE NEVER MENTIONED OUR BUDGET. We were told to have our "large family" be advised to help to keep costs lower; WE HAD NOT MENTIONED GUEST COUNT! I truly did not feel comfortable after being there 5-10 minutes. We also did not like the pricing for the all inclusive packages. The costs were ridiculous. The options for providing my own vendors was not supported by Cindy. She "highly recommends" HER vendors and wouldn't want to see others. Overall venue has great potential for events. Would really recommend for people whom are willing to hire and outside coordinator or have more patience than I do or be okay with Cindy calling your wedding HER WEDDING. For us unfortunately this venue did not work out. Best of luck for those seeing this venue.

I wish I could give this venue no stars. Whatever you do, do NOT get married here. Terri is the event coordinator that works with brides, yet she should not be in this position. At the start, she was great, but then, the Saturday prior to my wedding, she decided to ruin everything. She not only lies about everything, does not stick to the contract, but then the day off decided to ruin even more of my wedding. I have all the texts and documents to show how unprofessional she truly is, and yet she did not stick to her word or the contract, when showed her own words and writing. Please do yourself a favor and AVOID this place. She will ruin your day and be a complete jerk to your guest. Thankfully my family and guest made my wedding the best and I got to marry my best friend, because terri did everything she could to ruin everything else. So I hope she was happy at the end of MY wedding.

My daughter wanted a quaint little wedding in a garden. And thought this place would be perfect. We came to the venue two months before the wedding to look at the property and make sure it would be a good fit for her wedding. When we were there, it was slightly overgrown and we were told that it would be cleaned up, raked, and all the flowers should be trimmed back prior to the wedding. *Three days before the wedding when we came to do our walk-through, there were still some overgrown things as well as enough leaves to make several piles. Not just a few. (The leaves were so bad that they got stuck in the bride dress while walking down the aisle. )The bridal suite was requested to be cooled off since the heat index was high for the day. When we arrived the air was on but not blowing cool air. When we looked at the filters we were shocked to see an 1/2 of thick black debris. We of course cleaned these immediately and resulted in cool air flow. Then when the bride went to use the restroom,she found over 15 spiders and webs in the bathroom (that we had to kill and dispose of they were everywhere on the mirror in the sink on the toilet). It was so disgusting. The rugs and the couch had stains. That were so bad that we ended up going and getting towels out of our car to place on the couch, so that the bride could sit in her white dress and not get dirty. The stains were on both sides of the couch cushions so they had already been flipped previously. It takes with only a little bit of effort, every few months, clean the rugs and clean the couch. If the cottage is used, it should be at least cleaned after each service. The whole cottage was a total gross mess.We were given five trash cans with garbage bags that were provided by Corona Heritage Park, but even though they provided the trash cans that we would be paying for an additional trash service for them to be removed from the property. All garbage was placed in the trash cans at the location that they left him for us so that's where we figured they wanted us to leave it but it ended up costing me a $60 fee for them to remove their own garbage cans.But the most disrespectful part of all of this, the lady who was in charge of the park, stayed for the entire service in with the guests...totally fine but She posted pictures of my daughters wedding and ceremony before my daughter even had a chance to look at any of her own pictures. Again, my daughter had NOT seen or posted a single picture on Facebook, Instagram or TikTok, of her own wedding before this lady posted a picture promoting their venue. It was posted within hours of the ceremony!! This venue was also infested with thousands and thousands of mosquitoes and gnats. We were not informed that there were any issues with bugs. We had to run to a pharmacy and get bug spray for our guests because they were being eaten alive. Again this is an outdoor venue and I understand that..but we are paying for a service to be provided for us and if that means you need to spray for bugs and clean carpets, and do all of those things then that's what should be done to run your business properly.I was also informed that within five business days of the ceremony I would receive my deposit check back in the mail. When I hadn't received it by day eight, I contacted the park, I was informed that their accounts have been compromised, and everything had been placed on a hold. I was informed that a new check would be issued and I should receive it in the next few days. That's something you should relay if there's an issue that impacts your clients, Right?!?When I received the check, I deposited it immediately. I was then contacted the following day by the Park asking me if I had deposited the check or not. ANOTHER ISSUE WITH THE REFUND???They informed me that their mailbox had been been compromised and they were having to cancel all the checks that they had issued. So then I sat and waited another five days to make sure that my bank didn't deny the check because they had another issue on their end. Total mess!