Welcome to the Anaheim OUTDOORS website. We hope you will use this site as a resource to find out how the City is planning for its future and how to get involved. Remember, it’s your backyard!

The City has engaged many stakeholders in a variety of meetings and interviews to garner the community’s concerns and interests in developing a Connectivity Plan that links the entire City.

With the nearly 20 mile breadth of Anaheim’s city limits and wide range of community resources, destinations, and assets, providing safe and convenient public access throughout the City, is a major challenge.

A goal of the Connectivity Plan is to provide additional opportunities for improved public health by encouraging non-motorized access throughout the City. Convenient trails, exercise stations, air and water quality improvements, community gardens, enhanced neighborhood parks and pocket parks will encourage greater, healthy activity throughout the City.

The Connectivity Plan will encourage pedestrian and bicyclists linkages between recreation areas throughout the City. These areas would include; parks, school sites, trails, open spaces, golf courses, equestrian facilities, recreation centers, and the Santa Ana River corridor.

There are many opportunities to improve Anaheim’s urban landscape. Proposed pocket parks, linear greenbelts, streetside rain gardens, and permeable pavement can provide opportunities for urban heat island reduction, stormwater retention, improved water quality and environmental education.

Creating increased community value through improved non-motorized trails, greenbelts, neighborhood parks and pocket parks, result in more recreation opportunities and aesthetic enhancements that increase associated property values.

The Connectivity Plan is meant to be a catalyst for initiating or further developing physical connections and site enhancements that will promote healthy access and outdoor activities throughout the community.

Creating safe outdoor movement through the public realm is a major goal of the Connectivity Plan. With the variety of natural and public attractions throughout the City, it is crucial that the public realm be developed to promote safer access for pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and children.