Ottawa Splash Pads.ca

Find the Best Splash Pads in Ottawa

Adventures

Level up

Our friends had a birthday party for their little girl. (She just leveled up to 4 years old.)

The birthday girl wanted to celebrate at Vista Park and the splash pad here is pretty awesome!

  • They have 3 tall twisty posts that shower water from above or sprinkle water from the sides.
  • They have 4 spray loops, but unlike other parks, they’re arranged so it looks like a spiral
  • They have 3 water cannons to blast your friends
  • And, of course, they have a bunch of ground sprinklers that shoot up streams and fountains of water. Hard to predict if you’re a toddler which makes it all the more exciting.

Our little girl had a lot of fun playing with their little girl, trying to recreate the sand castles from our last splash pad adventure. We had fun fetching water in our new princess pail from the drinking fountain.

Between the delicious green heart shaped cake and running around blowing bubbles, we’re exhausted. read more

Sand castles and splash pads

We had a play date at the Queenswood Heights Centennial park splash pad with our friends.

Apparently, when you mix water from the splash pad with sand from the nearby playground, you can make sand castles.

Who knew.

(It’s only taken us 40 splash pads to figure that out.)

The water park at Queenswood Heights is very nice. There’s actually two separate splash pads separated by some shady trees and picnic tables.

The first splash pad is kinda set up like a runway.

  • First, you run through two ground sprinkers that send up a fountain into the air.
  • Then, you have to get past the people trying to spray you with the yellow water cannons.
  • Run past the two ground sprinklers that shoot up a jet stream of water.
  • And then you have to face the big boss: a giant tower dumping five containers of water below.

We didn’t really play at the second splash pad only meters away. read more

Backseat driver

Our three year old daughter has become a backstreet driver.

No, seriously.

We went splash padding the other day around the New Edinburgh area.

The first splash pad was Bordeleau Park beside the Chinese embassy. They had this cool red dumping bucket which was translucent so you could watch it fill up before it dumped water on you.

Our daughter, however, was more interested in running around the park. The splash pad gently slopes down and then eventually meanders into the river. Our little explorer had fun running around on the rocks… until she scraped her knee. read more

Four bandaids and a splash park

We had to drop off our car at the dealership, so we thought we’d take some time and do some splashpadding.

The splash pad at Glen Park was better than what we were expecting. We thought it would be one of those old school wooden post splash pads.

Instead, it had a giant leaf and a tall flower post to sprinkle water down. Not bad, not bad at all.

  • The water park is pretty close to the adjacent basketball court, although there are blue posts to visually separate the two.
  • There is a small play structure beside the splash pad. (There’s an even better play structure nearby but it belongs to the elementary school.)
  • There are four ground sprinklers beside the leaf and flower post

We took a moment to splash around at Glen Park. Daddy made the mistake of trying to run through the sprinklers holding hands with an uncertain three-year old.  We only needed four Dora band-aids for our knees and one big squishy hug afterwards before we could try to run through the sprinklers again… this time with Daddy carrying the little monkey. read more

Big or small, we do them all

There are some splash pads that aren’t worth writing home about.

Montgomery Memorial Park is one of them.

When Mommy heard that comment, she promptly commented, “big or small, we do them all.” So, here’s the review.

There is a splash pad at Montgomery Memorial Park beside the Old Town Hall Community Centre in downtown Ottawa.

It has one blue post that squirts out water on all four sides.

The end.

[splashpad_headline_card id=474]

Ottawa Splash Pads are open!

Let the summer of splash padding begin (again)!

Last summer, our little family tried to visit all of the splash pads in Ottawa. There are over 90 splash pads in the city and we managed to hit 32 of them.

Some of our all-time favourite splash pads include Brewer Park, South Nepean Park, and Cardinal Creek Valley.

Now that summer vacation is here, our little girl is all excited. Ottawa splash pads have been open since the May long weekend. (The water was turned on May 19, 2013.) It’s been a rainy spring and summer so far, but that’s okay. We still have fun! read more