| DeForest Park is the first neighborhood in all of Long Beach to form its own neighborhood association. There is an actual 24-acre park here running alongside the LA Riverbed with a club house, rest rooms, baseball diamonds, basketball, tennis and racquetball courts, sand volleyball court, horse trails, a nature trail and a bike path that can take you to straight to the Aquarium of the Pacific or downtown LA without ever crossing a street. The bike path goes directly along the river under all street-crossings. DeForest Park is tucked away near the quaint, recently redeveloped “North Village” of Long Beach with easy access to Metro Blue line, the 710 and the 91 Freeways. We're only 20 miles from downtown LA and only 7 miles from the Pacific Ocean! Our homes were built on generous lots here in 1945 and many have since been remodeled and enlarged. This is a safe and quiet neighborhood unknown to many residents of our fine city. That's why some consider us “the hidden treasure of Long Beach” |
| View from 63rd St looking toward DeForest Park north end. |
| View from Nature Center looking toward Horse Trail with stairs to Bike Path |
DeForest Park: The Hidden Treasure of Long Beach
DeForest Park of Long Beach, CA
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| North Village Rehab project Atlantic Ave Street Beautification |
The North Village Redevelopment project is well underway with many of the businesses along Atlantic Avenue remodelled and street
beautifications completed. Brick patterned crosswalks, new lanes and islands, plantings, light posts, and building facades. We will be
adding a page to this website soon, in order to showcase all of these efforts. For now, we've put just a couple of pictures on this page.
Check back soon for more, and if you would like to see anything specific on this site, send us an email. Thanks.
beautifications completed. Brick patterned crosswalks, new lanes and islands, plantings, light posts, and building facades. We will be
adding a page to this website soon, in order to showcase all of these efforts. For now, we've put just a couple of pictures on this page.
Check back soon for more, and if you would like to see anything specific on this site, send us an email. Thanks.
| Click below for Map of DeForest Park Clubhouse, or directions to DeForest Park Clubhouse |
| Click below for Map of Atlantic Avenue North Village Redevelopment Project Area, or directions to Atlantic Avenue North Village Redevelopment Project Area |
| DeForest Park Community News updated 12/11/07 The Villa Park Trailer park has been sold and the new owner is planning to remove all the trailers and build condos! This is great news for our area, especially those who's DeForest Park homes back up to the trailer park behind 63rd Street. LB Gets $5M for new parks! The beltway along the east side of the northbound 710 freeway from Del Amo to the 91 interchange is going to be a huge park! The DeForest Wetlands, part of the Los Angeles County lower Los Angeles River parkway plan, will run along the river next to the 710 Freeway. It will include the re-creation of 34 acres of historic wetlands, scrub and woodland habitat, recreational areas and improvements in water quality and flood control. Currently this area is mainly being used for nursery storage. Read more about it here Press Telegram article 7/12/07 |
| This site updated 8/6/2011 |
| Please keep our park and neighborhood clean Don't litter and please recycle Long Beach Recycling Info Thank you! |
| National Public Lands Day returns to DeForest Park! DeForest Park was selected for the annual cleanup day on 9/29/07 by this terrific organization. They were here last here in 2003 and did a great job again today. National Public Lands Day 2007 |
| Long Beach makes room for improvements Local: Revitalization plan begins with demolition of blighted stretch in North L.B. This is not adjacent to DeForest Park, but it's not far from here either. The area above Bixby Knolls on Long Beach Blvd is the latest focus of the Redevelopment Dept, just as the area along Atlantic Ave got started on earlier this year. Atlantic Ave cleaned up very fast as soon as the blighted motel and other commercial properties were demolished. It's nice to see the same efforts being done on Long Beach Blvd now. Read more about it here Press Telegram article 10/21/07 |
| Check out this web page on the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency website. It has pdf files of lots of great meetings and plans on North Long Beach redevelopment projects. Click link below: |
| New Recycling Items Accepted in our bins! Long Beach Eco-Guide for Recycling |
| Communities Along 710 Push for a Greener Path Press-Telegram front page article on Dec 10, 2007 detailing plans for bike path redevelopment. This affects DeForest Park Press Telegram article 12/10/07 |
| North Long Beach to get "Green" Target and many more new developments! After being vacant for more than 10 years, the old Home Base building on Cherry Ave will be torn down soon, to be replaced with a Target with Starbucks, etc... Press Telegram article 12/11/07 |