Discovery Park

During festivals. It's fun. It's clean and neat. However I'd be very careful of the place. It's not clean. Sometimes violent people in the area. Trash and needles in places. Not the safest place for kids and families.

Visited Discovery Park this weekend for Golden Sky Country Music Festival, and it was a lot of fun! I've never been to a festival at Discovery Park before; although, I know that the park has been the destination venue for many big events like After Shock.To my pleasant surprise, Discovery Park was very easy to navigate! The event set up made the festival reachable whether you were paying to park, arriving by ride share, or taking public transportation in. The grounds were well kept, but all the grass was dead. I know in the past that events have been cancelled due to flooding, and the location is big but not optimal due to weather conditions. Because Discovery Park is right next to the American River, I noticed fog creeping in as the night went on. It was cold, but a nice relief from the heat earlier in the day. I'm sure I'll be back for another event, and am glad that the park is big enough to host a festival of this size and popularity! It's part of what makes living in Sacramento so much fun.

This was my very first time being at Discovery Park. It was for the Sac Brew Fest and it was flipping Awesome. Tone of people having a great time. Music was great. Beer chug/race was great entertainment. Some amazing local brewers out there showcasing their "goodness". Some amazing food trucks. It was over all an amazing event. I can see why this park is utilized for Out door events! Great Job Sacramento!!! There was plenty of bathrooms for the amount of patrons which is always Nice...

I've been to several events at this location. Each has been wonderful though of course that is more to do with the event peeps than the location itself.So with this location, I really like the set up. It is a perfect sized venue to hold festivals of all sorts. The only down side is that there is no onsite parking. While paid parking is available just a 5-10 minute walk, it is pricey.Since I've only been here for concert events, I cannot comment on what it is like outside of that.

We like to launch the boat here when the river is full. The tide is higher at the beginning of summer, but it is always incredibly packed. A lot of people back their boats down and do not have the same boat curtesy as other boat launches. It gets packed and people wait around after tying their boat up. It does get very shallow and it will scrape up your prop if you are not careful. There are bathrooms that are a tad dirty, but tons of parking and places to load and unload the boat. There is a fee when coming into the park, pay upfront to avoid a ticket.

This was the first time I've been to Discovery Park. Supposedly the city of Sacramento transit worked together to avoid additional cars in the area. IMO, the park was cumbersome to walk through from event to event. The transit worked out pretty good until the end of the evening. We waited nearly an hour for the metro to pick us up. Supposedly they were waiting on buses from the event. Not acceptable. They should've ran two Metro trains to Folsom. This faux pas made for an extremely long night. Didn't get home until after 1 AM.

This was a horrible experience. There were homeless and garbage everywhere. No one was monitoring the boat launch. Jet skis and boats tied off and "parked" at the boat launch making it very difficult for others to launch or bring their boats out of the water. It took an hour to get our boat to the dock only to pull it out because the water was too low and there was some large piece of metal under water about 30 feet from the dock that already damaged several other boaters propeller. Tempers were flaring and people were yelling profanities at each other. There was no security to be seen anywhere at the boat launch or the entire park. We wanted to get our money back but the park toll booth was unmanned when we left. Discovery park should be a safe and maintained park facility, but it's not! Where's our tax payer dollars going? California has a $97 billion surplus!

I've only visited Discovery Park for the Aftershock festival so I can't speak to its peaceful nature since I was surrounded by head bangers and metal music but I do think it was a lovely venue for a concert. It was small but not too small and felt intimate enough to where I didn't feel like a small fish in a big park when trying to migrate from one end of the park to the other. The park has a lot of trees, what can I really say except parks should have trees?Overall, I wouldn't come here just to marinate because Sac is far from where I live however I shall prob make my return when Metallica headlines the festival next year! Thanks for a grand old time, Discovery!

Decent park to do outdoorsy type of activities like archery or axe throwing. Archery range is a row of haystack and there are sometimes bushes with homeless sleeping in them behind... If you want to have a picnic I'd probably go elsewhere. I wouldn't trust sitting on the benches, they were littered with trash and who knows what else has been on there. I didn't see a park ranger anywhere. I'm not sure about parking but I went on a Monday afternoon and there was no fee. It's a giant park with a lot of wasted potential, if it was a little cleaner and safer I'd probably give this park a higher rating.

The park itself is kind of pointless except for the rivers and the unique endemic species of yellow-billed magpies, which live there in great numbers.The park is $7 per car to enter. we entered on a Friday at 10am. When we arrived we were greeting by beautiful magpies as there was no one there except employees. Within 5 minutes of enjoying the solitude, a park truck towing a gas powered leaf blower drove by and parked right near us. The birds scattered. Shortly after that a city dump truck came and dumped what appeared to be the remnants of a homeless camp next to several large dumpsters in the parking lot. The truck drove away and left the large pile of debris in the lot without immediately cleaning it up.The views were OK but the park is basically a large parking lot with picnic areas. If it weren't for the unique birds I think $7 would have been a rip off. Also, it was hard to enjoy the beauty of nature while the leaf blower truck circled endlessly around us, although there were hardly any leaves to blow.