By Susanville Mayor
Mendy Schuster
Spring is in the air in Susanville. Hopefully, you will have a reason to visit one of the City of Susanville’s five parks this spring. The city owned parks include:
Veterans Memorial Park which is located on North Street. This park is a gathering place for many local events. Also known to children in our community as “the canon park” it is home to Roop’s Fort and Lassen Historical Museum.
Lassen Historical Society volunteers operate the museum which is filled with local history.
Paiute Creek runs through the park and will soon be used by Lassen Sportsmen’s Club for the smallest of our anglers at the annual Jr. Fishing Derby.
There is a playground, pump track, built in corn hole boards a skateboard park and our tennis/pickleball courts at this park. Community Church of Susanville has two cleanup/workdays a year to help staff keep up the park.
The Frank Ernaga Baseball Field at Memorial Park is home to the Lassen College Men’s Baseball Team. Lassen College has an agreement with the City of Susanville to use and maintain the field. The hustling cougars don’t only help to keep up the field, they can be seen all around our community volunteering to help where needed.
Fruit Grower’s Park (often referred to as Riverside Park) is located on Riverside Drive. This park has a playground, horseshoe pits, a basketball court, and fields that are used for adult softball. Lassen High School soccer and softball teams as well Lassen Youth Soccer use this park.
Skyline Park is on Skyline Drive. This park is our most natural park but offers a paved walking trail and a disc golf course. The views are amazing. A group of local volunteers help keep the disc golf course maintained.
Pat Murphy Little League Park on River Street. This park is used for Susanville Little League. Pat Murphy was a local man who seemed to always be working at the Little League Fields. You can find a memorial to Mr. Murphy by the minor field near the snack bar.
This season there are over 370 children signed up for Susanville Little League. It has four baseball fields including T-Ball, Farm, Minor and Major fields. Susanville Little League volunteers maintain this park. They see that the fields are well kept for our children. The City of Susanville has planned new restrooms for the T-ball and Farm area.
Bark Park is our dog park located on Sierra Road. Mimi Rena came up with the idea to create a dog bark in town. Volunteers and local business owners joined the City of Susanville staff and together they developed a place for our dogs to exercise. An anonymous donor helped make this park possible. Bark Park is maintained with the continuous help of volunteers, and we hear our dogs love it.
The City of Susanville also has the Susanville River Trail which is maintained with the help of community members/businesses who have adopted portions of the trail to keep clean. Also, the City of Susanville holds community clean up days for this trail.
The city only has two full-time employees and one seasonal employee assigned to our parks. This makes volunteers a huge part of keeping our parks beautiful and available for everyone. Thank you to all the volunteers!
Space can be rented at both Memorial and Fruit Grower’s parks by calling 530.252.5111.
The Susanville City Council meets on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 66 North Lassen Street. We begin our open meetings at 5:00 p.m.
Until next time…
