Parkridge Park is an 8.1 acre neighborhood park located in the southwest corner of the city. It is adjacent to the Parkridge Community Center and the Perry Childhood Development Center (pre-school and kindergarten). Parkridge contains a number of recreation facilities, including basketball and tennis courts, a baseball field, jogging and walking track, playground equipment, and a learning garden targeted at Perry students.

The Parkridge Community Center, located at 591 Armstrong in the northwest corner of Parkridge Park, offers recreational and educational programs to Ypsilanti youth, with a focus on after-school and summer activities. A broad variety of community organizations provide programming at Parkridge, including Growing Hope and MSU Extension.

Burns Park is a 15-acre neighborhood park on Wells and Baldwin adjacent to Burns Park Elementary School. It hosts an enclosed shelter with restrooms and a drinking fountain, five tennis courts with a practice backboard, a basketball court, a sledding hill (aka “Magic Mountain”), a pétanque court (a form of boules), a small parking lot and play equipment. The park is the old site of the county fairgrounds. Remnants of the oval track can still be seen by the same shape tree planting around the interior of the park.