Nela Luken Park

Nice Park but no Shade, WestPark AreaThe WestPark community in Roseville is growing rapidly... Nela Luken is one off the parks in the area. It is located on Pleasant Grove Blvd between Village Plaza Drive and Village Center Drive. The park is located in a nice central spot that is adjacent to a few businesses including MoJoe's coffee shop, Kitchen 747 for casual American dining and a gym (F45 Training). If you see any of these businesses you are very close to Nela Luken Park off of Pleasant Grove Blvd.The park is well maintained with a lot of grassy area. There is a section with metal picnic tables, can't move the tables around as they are secured to a cement pad. With our triple-digit summers this should've been a covered area. There is not one shady tree near that seating area. All the trees are young and not big enough to draw shade. The park was named in honor of Nela Luken, a former Senior Planner at the City of Roseville. There is a playground but whoa! the top of the slide is pretty high up there. It would be a bit scary for a young child to be on top that tall structure. There are also bathrooms in the premises. Anyway... I come here for the food trucks on Wednesdays. They usually come in fours and they would park alongside the parking area. Usually there are three meal trucks and one dessert truck on rotation. Review #2586

Every time we come to get a bite to eat at Kitchen 745 the kids could see this cool park by the distance lol ! They always ask can we go ? So this time after dinner we took them . They are in heaven right now playing with the kids they met at Kitchen 747 . The slide is super tall they love it ! They said the slide is so much fun ! They have bathrooms on site . They have picnic tables and a large grass area . The main attraction is the big slide looks pretty cool and fun ! My kids said it felt like a water slide with out the water .. We will definitely be dropping by again next time we are in the area !

This park is about a month old with some pretty tall/steep structures. My two year old needed some guidance to climb up to the tube slide but the kids seemed to enjoy the park. There are restrooms nearby and some picnic benches but pretty much has zero shade so it'll be blazing hot in the summer.Update: looks like once it heats up, there is a quasi splash pad set of misters to help cool off. They weren't up and operating yet when we visited - perhaps after Memorial Day?

This park had such potential. The "splash pad" is a set of really tall poles with misters at the top. And in the summer when it's a million degrees the water evaporates before it falls down to where the lkittle kids are, so it's pretty much worthless. Also, they made it very difficult for smaller kids to take advantage of the main slide on the play structure, as you have to climb this weird rope thing to get up to the top to slide down. It's just a strange park setup overall with no shade for when it's blazing hot in the summer. I don't see myself visiting here often, we will frequent our other fave parks in the area, and make the drive to other real splash pads.