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Fairfield Park Splash Pad

The splash pad at Fairfield Park in Gloucester is probably a 4 star splash pad. I say “probably” because it was broken the day we went to splash around.

Two nice fellas from the city of Ottawa explained that there was a problem with the computer, but it would be fixed soon, and sorry about the inconvenience. Who knew there were computers running these sprinklers!

Fairfield Park has a modern water park:

The only question is what’s the water pressure like?

Our two-year old daughter is learning to go potty when she has that ‘funny feeling.’ (Thank goodness for Mo Willems and Smarties. He’s our favourite author right now and he blogs as well which is pretty darn cool.) read more

Elmridge Park splash pad

“It’s one of the wooden post splash pads…”

Yes, it is. And as far as spash pads go, that ain’t a good thing.

Wooden post water parks in Ottawa tend to be low pressure, older splash pads. (Compare that with the new dragon splash pad that was just built at Chapman Mills Main Street Park that has a water breathing dragon!)

The splash pad at Elmridge Park is one of the better wooden post splash pads (but that’s not saying much):

  • There are four posts: three wooden, and one red metal post. Each post has several water nozzles built in on the side that spray water into the center of the splash pad.
  • There’s a start button on each individual post. Unlike most modern splash pads in Ottawa, there isn’t a single button that turns everything on.

Not much to say about this splash pad. We didn’t stay long at all. After all, it’s a hop, skip and a jump to Fairfield Park and that one has a much newer splash pad facility. read more

Rain

It’s monsoon season here in Ottawa.

A few days ago, it was nothing but rain which was refreshing since it’s been such a hot summer. We weren’t able to go splashpadding, but our street flooded so we were able to float our boat and go puddle jumping instead.

Ahh, summer.

We’re running out of time to go see all 90+ splash pads in Ottawa. We hit a few more splash pads out in Gloucester this week, so we’ll post those shortly.

Here’s to the last few weeks of our staycation! read more

Walden Park Splash Pad

The splash pad at Walden Park near the Kanata Golf and Country club is quite nice. It’s in a picturesque woods and it has an incredible spider-web play structure beside the water park.

Oh, and the splash pad ain’t bad:

  • There are 2 rings that create a wall of mist to run through. You get quite wet when the water gets going.
  • There’s a giant red pole with three tubes of water dumping on people below.
  • There are three flower showers on the ground
  • There’s a row of 8 shower streams on the side.
  • The button is on the blue post off to the side.

There’s lots of shade beside the play structure, and I particularly liked the stone amphitheater effect around the water park.

The very cool spiderweb play structure is designed for older kids, but our little girl had fun climbing the first section with Daddy hovering around. There is a second climbing structure beside the spider web that our little monkey could climb and slide down by herself. read more

Brookshire Park Splash Pad

The splash pad at Brookshire Park in South Marsh is another popular and great water park. So popular that we couldn’t really get any decent shots to give you an idea of this place.

We’re coming in from the Carp Water Splash Park and we’re happy to hit another 5 star water park in Ottawa. Here’s what they have at the Brookshire Park splash pad:

  • They have a giant blue pole with 3 water spouts pouring water onto people.
  • There’s a giant orange pole with 4 little streams of water coming out from the sides
  • They have 2 of those giant circles of fun that create a wall of mist to run through. Very popular.
  • There are 3 flowers painted on the ground with showers of water that shoot up from the center.
  • There are also another 3 nozzles in the ground that sprays 7 streams of water to creating a nice showering arch of water.
  • The start button is on a red post.
  • Finally – and this is cool because we’ve never seen it before at an Ottawa splash pad – they have a red post with a glass center piece that has this cool spinning vortex of water when the water pumps through. There are also trickles of water pouring out at the bottom which makes it easy to collect water into a bucket.

There’s a play structure nearby and the gazebo doubles as a stroller parking lot. (No picnic tables under the gazebo.) Lots of families playing today so we joined in the fun before heading out to our final splash pad of the day. read more

Carp Water Splash Park

Yeah, the splash pad at Carp Water Splash Park is a five star, but is it worth the drive?

I guess it all depends on how close you live to Carp.

The Carp splash pad is quite nice. It’s the eastern most Ottawa splash pad and it’s definitely not boring with so much to do:

  • There’s a giant blue tower with 5 yellow buckets that dump water on people below.
  • They have 4 rings that create those walls of mist that are fun to run through.
  • They have 3 water canons – red, yellow, and green – that shoot water into the center, but turn off when you point them outside of the splash pad.
  • There’s a giant white flower that pours water down the petals.
  • There are at least 4 single-stream water nozzles that shoot up from the ground. (Some of the water nozzles look like they’re not working.)
  • There have 5 water nozzles in the ground that shoot up a circle of water that showers up in the air
  • The red fire hydrant has a black button that gets things going, but be careful… water sprays out from the sides

Like I said… lots to do at the splash pad in Carp and by the time we got there on a weekday morning, there were already lots of families and friends playing at the water park.

There’s a nice shelter with lots of picnic tables and a Porta-potty by the baseball diamond. (The restroom on the side of the community center is not for public use.) read more