Love the lay out and the enormous covered pavilion. The design is appealing to look at and it's so tall and allows lots of airflow. The ball fields are placed nicely and are taken very good cate of. The concessions are priced well have have lots of options.
We like these fields. The boys are used to dirt. The only thing I don't like is there is no score taken on the score board. Other than that everything else is great!
Gate fee staff very unpleasant although better on today's visit. Staff selling merchandise shirts smoking all over everything. Many of the backstop fences have huge gaps that the balls roll under and through.
This ball field is nice, but there are a few issues. They have score boards but no controls out to use them for competitive youth baseball. They also split your pool play over 2 days unnecessary. In my opinion it is to collect gate fees as much as possible. When you play Friday, Saturday and bracket on Sunday, as a spectator you pay 3 days tonwatch your kid. They could easily split teams between Friday and Saturday so you didn't have to come 3 days in a row and pay 3 times to get in.
Came for The annual Christmas in the Park light show! Even though it's more or less the same display every year. The little ones still get SO excited driving through and looking at all the lights. Coming from Florida, we really appreciated the surfing Santa!
Nice complex with lots of space between fields. Parking is fairly limited, the grass parking to west is pretty rough when pulling so cars have to be very careful. Nice to see with the turf fields the pitching rubber is not elevated like at a lot of cross purpose fields. Concessions had a good variety of food and the bathrooms were really clean for being ball park restrooms at 9 PM at night. The following I am going to put on the organiziation running the tournament but still it was at this facility. Paying 8 bucks for a single 900 PM game is ridiculous. Getting in took forever with at least 30 people lined up because the lady had to put the wrist bracelet on every single person and she was not in any hurry. When we played here the one night we had a lightning delay. The fields that were facing the lightning kept playing and finished their games 10 minutes after the other fields had already went into a delay. Those fields that kept playing the umps said they keep playing unless they are told to stop. Also, the teams were allowed to stay in the dugouts as well as spectators in the metal stands; not typical were we are from. Our field had the worst tweaking umps I have ever seen. I am going to guess this all goes back to the organization running the tournament but still this is something to be aware of. Nice park and has been for a long time. Definitely like playing here more than a lot of other parks in the KC area.
It's a nice complex, but it's quite a distance from the parking lot. It might be nice to have a golf cart to shuttle those in need
Pros: Fields are not to far from each other like some parks. Turf fields are a plus. We aren't breathing dust all day. Paved sidewalks. Concessions decent but costly. We took in our own drink and snacks so this worked well and we appreciated being able to bring food/drink that works best for us. Not far from other businesses in Lee's Summit. Cons: $8 to get in per day is INSANE! They offer no weekend pass therefore it's almost $50 for parents to watch their kid play the tournament... Not to mention high for grandparents to have to pay also! The cost is NUTS! Restrooms were not clean even at the start of the tournament. There are also only four stalls which makes the wait long for the restrooms and doesn't work well to be able to get back to the next game or practice. There isn't much shade around the fields to watch the games however there is some shade under trees in the center of the complex. Not enough handicap spaces in parking. There seems to be no security to enforce handicap parking or to ensure vehicles aren't broken into as this location is known for. Some umpires were a little sketchy looking and not sure were all there. People doing wrist bands could be more friendly. Each of the three days we were there they seem to be on the grumpy side. Overall decent complex we have seen worse but definitely room for improvement given the amount they are charging to get in!
Fun place, need to take products off menu if you no longer have! Ball fields are way too close together, obviously too late now but I feared I would be hit by a ball from another field
Really beautiful facility. Nice fields well laid out pavilion area with good concessions and appropriately priced. Parking is no good. Could have thought that out better. Anddddddd who’s brilliant idea was it to have the softball pitchers pitch off a “throw rug”?! That is about the poorest design I have ever seen. Had our pitcher trip twice going for a ball and not make the out. The umps were jacking with position of the “rug” every 15 mins. I think that could have been worked out better.
