On Thursday morning, West Sacramento mayor Martha Guerrero cut the ribbon on the new and improved Westacre Park. The park revitalization was funded by $7.8 million of federal Prop 68 funding for parks across the country.
The park has renewed features, like an upgraded playground, skate park and basketball court, as well as new features like a “splash pad” complete with water features to help fight the summer heat and pickleball courts
Guerrero said that the park will help facilitate the next generation of children in West Sacramento.
“This is where they discover the world through play, where they build confidence by climbing a little higher, running a little faster and making new friends,” Guerrero said. “Where imagination takes over and curiosity grows and learning happens naturally.”
Quirina Orozco, West Sacramento’s District 2 supervisor, said that the park had experienced hardship before the renovation, and that she witnessed it firsthand with her children.
“My kids both played basketball, soccer and baseball, but in fields we could barely call fields because they were pretty pockmarked,” Orozco said. “It is the heart of District 2… This area of town, so many of you are probably aware, it’s known for a lot of hardship.”
The park project also secured additional funding from Sutter Health to create another feature of the park — a “wellness labyrinth” and reflexology path. Michael Cureton, the CEO of Sutter’s Davis hospital, said that the area was meant to help meditate and reflect.
“Health occurs not just within our clinics and hospitals, but outside within the community, where people live, people learn, people play,” Cureton said.
West Sacramento city councilmember Dawnté Early stands with her daughter Quinn West for a portrait on the reflexology path at Westacre Park on July 10, 2026.Ruth Finch/CapRadio
A reflexology path is a path embedded with small stones raised above the surface that is meant to be walked on in bare feet to relieve pain and trigger relaxation. Dawnté Early, the city councilmember for West Sacramento’s District 3, and her daughter helped lay the stones of the path, and community members who laid stones were allowed to be as creative as they wanted with the stones.
“We came over and we wrote, and we put them in and we made dragonflies and turtles.” Early said.
People who helped lay the stones of the path also left messages for their community and loved ones who would use the path, but laid the messages face down.
“[The messages] are buried underneath these rocks as a kind of a memorial and symbolizing that this is a part of the community, that is permanent and here at this park,” Cureton said.
Early said that her and her daughter wrote messages to anyone who may use the path in the future.
“We wrote messages just to those who would use it in the spirit of what we hoped you would get out of this,” Early said. “Being able to relax, calm, center yourself, a space for West Sacramento children, adults, our elders to be able to come here and be healthy.”
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