Beautiful park. Definitely not over crowded. Was nice to drive through and view the city from all sides. Beautiful palm trees and overall quite peaceful.
Sadly, our joy over finding the trail to the tree swing was short lived as we realized that the swing is .... GONE! : (
Not sure if it was removed by park services for safety reasons, or if some nasty human decided to ruin everyone else's fun. Either way, the swing is gone. Still a very nice park - in fact, it's a historical place - the oldest park in LA. Definitely worthy of a picnic in the future.