BREC's Forest Community Park

One of our favorite parks! Lots of space for kids to run and play, and the playground is great any time of year. During the summer the splash pad is a wonderful spot to visit. There are lots of park benches and seats around the park, though I've frequently wished there were more benches surrounding the playground. The nature trails are also a big hit with my family.

Ammending my review from 5 stars to 3 as there is now a cut-through on one side of the park funneling a lot of traffic through it now. There are always a lot of cars, travelling much too fast, not heeding pedestrians, kicking up dust from the new unfinished road and making the air smell like exhaust. The kid side of the park is still fine, but avoid the dog park side if you're a walker; it's dangerous and unpleasant now. Update: Whatever traffic cut through that was happening before seems to have stopped. Wonderful place for a morning or evening walk. Plenty of spots for kids to play, there's a nice dog area with spots for small and large dogs. They're working on additional walking paths now.

My dog and I had a wonderful time at the dog park today. It was overcast and breezy which allowed the dogs to really run themselves out with over heating. We also walked around the lake and saw a few nice joggers and a group of kids that loved to pet the dog as we stopped then finished our walk. The park has many amenities like the dog parks one for big dogs and one for the little ones, excellent tennis courts, basketball court indoors, and MA y pavilions for family events or just a lunch in the park.

We took our girls dogs so they could stretch their legs and get out of the hotel room and went on a trail and they LOVED it!! The park over all was nice and very clean!

My baby and cousin really love going to this park. A great way for your kids to cool down for the summer for free. You can also have a picnic out there. Because, the park is beautiful. They also got a walking trail too.

Love the dog park, there's usually a really good pack there. Edit: I don't know about that anymore as of 2022 actually it gets busy around sundown especially on the weekends and Sundays are always super busy. The trails are so fun and easy to walk, well maintained but be careful after a rain it gets muddy. There's a sweet playground, some tennis courts, and a couple enclosed baseball fields as well as a cute little pond with 3 ducks where you can fish. It's pretty well lit at night except for the trails and the dog park closes at dusk. We always come out to walk the dog, go to the dog park, play PoGo, whatever. My family loves it!

I love to watch my dogs have fun; and they have fun here. It's big enough for Bitsie's Chuck-It runs fully to the south and north with room to spare. East is about half that distance. The sidewalk surrounding the dog park gives Bo plenty of exercise pacing runners, walkers, strollers with babies, and cyclists. When the sidewalk is clear, Bo hangs out near the south fence which borders the small dog park. The latter is about one-third the size of the big park; and has only one covered concrete pad with a picnic table. It also has a park bench. The main park has two of the covered picnic tables, equidistant apart, and three park benches. Both parks have a concrete pad away from the covered tables with a tall water faucet and fountain, and at least one plastic baby pool. Waste bags and waste-only receptacles are readily available. The big park has an extra picnic table that's uncovered; and a smaller water fountain area at the In/Out spot. All covered areas have a time or light-sensitive light that doesn't always work. Since the park is open from dawn to dusk, the lights should not be a problem. Other rules for the park include: no food or drink, no smoking; and no children under 12.

Large park with a lot of walking trails, open space, playgrounds, splash pad, pavilions, 2 dog parks, ball fields, a pond, and tennis courts. Also great for playing Pokemon Go

Nice. My visit was for the STEM NOLA/Father's On A Mission Event. The grounds for this park is amazing. The community center is very spacious with lots of independent rooms. Definitely worth checking out.

They now have walking trails through the wooded area. How wonderful now I don't have to drive 45 mins to an 1 hr to walk a trail. Thank you for doing this BREC