Fresno prepares for crowds as families head to parks for Easter weekend

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Easter Sunday is rapidly approaching, and the City of Fresno is gearing up for thousands to bask the parks with their friends and loved ones arsenic they observe the holiday.

On Thursday afternoon, respective families were enjoying the sunny, windy conditions astatine Woodward Park.

Some kids are taking vantage of the breezy conditions to alert a kite.

This weekend, the fig of families parking and mounting up volition increase.

"This is our Superbowl play connected the parks side," said Fresno PARCS Director Aaron Aguirre, "Anybody who wants to travel retired and enjoy, they are invited to bash so, acceptable up their worldly with families."

PARCS Director Aaron Aguirre says that each year, Fresno's determination and vicinity parks are flooded with families acceptable to marque lifelong memories arsenic they observe Easter Sunday.

To support trash bins and bathrooms, the metropolis volition ramp up staffing.

"With our existent unit and augmented staff, we volition person determination upwards of 88 further unit members not conscionable successful our regionals but passim each of our parks," said Aguirre.

Aguirre reminds everyone to beryllium respectful of their areas astatine the parkland and says determination are definite dos and don'ts for everyone.

"Like confetti eggs and silly string. Those are the gifts that support connected giving. It takes weeks and months for that worldly to truly beryllium eliminated from the parks and turfs and truthful forth," said Aguirre.

It's besides important to enactment that pavilions indispensable beryllium reserved and paid for, but the greenish writer is disposable connected a first-come, first-served basis.

"We volition person radical positioned astatine the pavilions, and successful summation to that, we volition person a motion showing the paid reservation. To springiness you an idea, connected Saturday we person astir 30 pavilions reserved and that fig doubles connected Sunday," said Aguirre.

Extra Traffic is besides expected with signs already informing drivers adjacent Woodward Park.

The Regional Sports Complex of Jensen and West volition beryllium closed.

Woodard and Roeding are unfastened astatine 6 a.m. and each neighboring parks astatine 7 a.m.

If you would similar to reserve a pavilion astatine 1 of the parks, you tin inactive marque a preservation time by calling the parks and recreation department.

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