Pearson Park

Use 400 North Harbor Boulevard, Anaheim, CA 92802. Navigate directly to the amphitheater, pool, recreation center, playground, or sports facility when one is your primary destination.

The general park is open every day from 5:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. The pool, amphitheater, recreation center, concessions, and organized sports have separate schedules.

Yes. Anaheim lists a children's play area as a park feature, together with picnic facilities and public restrooms.

Yes. Public restrooms are listed among the park's amenities. Availability around the pool, recreation center, amphitheater, and events may follow those facilities' operating schedules.

Yes. Pearson Park has a municipal swimming pool, but it is not open continuously with the park. Check Anaheim Aquatics for the current seasonal schedule, programs, admission, and closures before traveling to swim.

The park includes a historic outdoor amphitheater used for scheduled performances and community events. Admission, seating, entrances, and parking depend on the specific event rather than general park hours.

Yes. Picnic shelters and picnic tables are official amenities. Rentals, large groups, vendors, or organized events may require a city application or reservation.

General park, playground, and ordinary picnic access are free. Pool use, recreation programs, amphitheater events, concessions, reservations, and permitted sports activities may have separate fees.

Free parking spaces surround the park on Harbor Boulevard and Cypress, Lemon, and Sycamore streets. Designated accessible spaces are on Lemon Street in front of the amphitheater; choose the side nearest the pool, playground, recreation center, or sports facility.

Designated accessible parking is on Lemon Street directly in front of Pearson Park Amphitheatre. Accessibility inside the pool, recreation center, historic amphitheater, playground, and sports areas varies, so contact Anaheim for a destination-specific route.

The municipal pool, amphitheater, recreation center, concessions, and organized sports do not remain open for the full 5 a.m.-10:30 p.m. park day. Check the activity or event schedule before making one of these facilities the purpose of your visit.

Anaheim lists two reservable picnic shelters, and mature landscaping shades portions of this historic park. The sports fields, pool deck, playground, parking edges, and amphitheater seating can still be exposed. The recreation center, pool buildings, concessions, and amphitheater spaces open only for their own programs or events. Use the shelters for ordinary sun or light rain, but move to an open substantial building or enclosed vehicle for lightning, strong wind, or dangerous heat.

Pearson Park is a compact 19-acre historic city park with developed sidewalks and paved internal walks connecting the Harbor Boulevard entrance, playground, recreation center, pool, picnic shelters, courts, ballfields, amphitheater, cactus garden, lagoons, and restrooms. It is not promoted as a long-distance trail park. Historic garden edges, amphitheater seating, turf, roots, and wet areas near lagoons can be less even than the main walks, while games and events may temporarily redirect access.

Yes, when restrained by a leash, chain, or other restraint no longer than six feet. Pearson Park is not an Anaheim dog park, so off-leash use is prohibited throughout its lawns and paths. Remove waste and follow facility exclusions around the pool, playground, recreation center, amphitheater, sports in progress, events, and planted garden or lagoon edges.

OCTA Route 43 runs daily on Harbor Boulevard through central Anaheim. For Pearson Park, use a stop near Harbor Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue, then walk east toward the park at 400 North Harbor Boulevard; confirm the safest final crossing and exact stop in OCTA's trip planner. Route 43 also connects with the Fullerton Transportation Center and Anaheim-area routes, but service patterns can change, so check the current schedule before traveling.