Palisades Park, Santa Monica

Wonderful park. Large green area. Perfect for walks, jogging or dog walking. Great view over the ocean especially for sunsets. Very often you can see here musicians playing life music. It brings very nice ambience. I give four stars because towards the pier park isn’t that well maintained and cleaned.

The narrow park is on a high land above the ocean. It has a tree lined walking path along Ocean Ave, and great viewpoints of the ocean. There are stairs to get down to the beach. The park is clean, there are, however, some homeless people loitering in the park.

I visited here with family during some unseasonably cold weather in February . We bundled up on the only sunny day on my vacation and made our way through the park walkway . The views of the ocean were lovely . They have a huge issue with rodents here ....tons of squirrels and rats. They ran in and out of the shrubs looking for food from passersby. There are also many many many unhoused people laying in the grass , laying on the benches etc. This is not an area I would go to by myself ...I didn't feel safe.

Views were incredible of Ocean and Beach. Park was filled with homeless and sheltered like urine. Not sure how locals could walk and run, but they just went about there business. Sad to see this once great place to go regularly as a kid turn into a mix of the extreme upper and lower financial groups. Guess if you're rich you don't have to see the problem as you drive your convertible Porches and Lambos.

Always worth a stroll if you’re in the area. Early mornings are calm but filled with runners. Evenings are a beautiful time to watch the sunset and the homeless nestled in for the night.