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Heatherington Park Splash Pad

It was a cold and soggy this morning when we checked out the splash pad at Heatherington Park.

Too cold to play in, we just ran through the blue archway and had some grapes under the gazebo.

All in all, the splash pad at Heatherington Park ain’t bad. Here’s what it has:

  • A tower with 3 dumping buckets
  • 3 ground water fountains
  • 1 ground water jet that sprays pretty high
  • 1 blue archway that creates a wall of mist to run through.
  • The start button is on the red post.
  • There is a blue gazebo with a picnic table beside the splash pad.
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    Barrington Park Splash Pad

    A few weekends ago, we checked out the splash pad at Barrington Park. There’s nothing like playing around a water park on a hot summer night.

    There’s no gazebo, so it probably gets pretty hot out here in the middle of summer, but, there is a play structure hidden behind some trees, so you can still have a picnic in some shade. There’s also a library across the field.

    Here’s what they have at the Barrington Park splash pad:

    • Two water guns: one is a blue water cannon, and the other is a yellow elephant.
    • A red fire hydrant with 4 water spouts around the side. There is a black dome at the top of this red post to turn everything on.
    • Three ground sprinklers. One of the ground sprinklers shoots up pretty high.

    We had a lot of fun snacking on watermelon slices beside the water park and shooting the blue cannon. read more

    Jasmine Park Splash Pad

    We went splash padding the other day after the monsoons in Ottawa lifted.

    The Jasmine Park splash pad is a nice urban water park in Gloucester near Gloucester high school.

  • They have a large 4 ring circle structure that creates a wall of mist to run through.
  • There are two ground sprinklers fountains that alternate on a wierd cycle.
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    Chapman Mills Main Street Park Splash Pad

    Wow, dragons.

    We’ve been to 28 splash pads in Ottawa so far and this is the first dragon that we’ve seen. The new splash pad at Chapman Mills Main Street Park is worth checking out. (Not to be confused with the older and less impressive splash pad at Chapman Mills.)

    • A giant green dragon blasts a steady stream of water on the kids below. (No, the dragon doesn’t move.)
    • The dragon’s tail has 4 little streams of water for little kids
    • There’s a row of 5 single stream sprinklers from the ground
    • Two ground sprinklers send up two streams each in opposite directions.
    • One ground sprinkler shoots a jet of water straight up.
    • The start button is not obvious. Usually they’re on posts but this button is on the ground.
    • There are 3 red buckets filling up and dumping water on people.

    The play structure at Chapman Mills Main Street park continues the cool dragon theme as well. There’s a red dragon digging through the mulch and the rock climbing wall is a nice touch.

    We had a lot of fun playing at this park. The dragon was cool and we had fun trying to build up the nerve to stand under the dumping buckets. Our older cousin had an Ariel kite so we flew that in the field. read more

    Greenbank Park Splash Park

    As far as simple water parks go, I really like the splash pad at Greenbank Park. Those water sprinklers in the ground are really powerful!

    • There are 3 shower sprinklers in the ground. Two of them are really powerful.
    • There’s a simple wooden footbridge beside the splash pad
    • The start button is on the green post.

    This is the second stop we made with our older cousin. The water park is right beside Greenbank, but you’d never know it from the main road.

    The splash pad was fun, but I think the girls had a bigger blast playing hide-and-go seek at the nearby older wooden play structure.

    The strong water pressure shoots up so high that the jet of water is visible through the trees from the road. I say it’s a two star because the water pressure is so strong. Mommy wasn’t quite sure. read more

    Kilbirnie Park Splash Park

    We’re back in Barrhaven today visiting splash pads with our cousin. Kilbirnie Park has a lovely splash pad – I really liked the yellow archway!

    • There’s a blue post with three buckets that dump water onto kids below.
    • There are 3 shower sprinklers from the ground
    • Two single stream sprinklers also shoot up from the ground
    • The yellow archway has several nozzles that create a wall of mist to run through.
    • The red post has the start button.

    The Kilbirnie Park splash pad was pretty popular today. (The gazebo stroller parking lot was full.) Lots of kids playing around with their day care providers and mommies and daddies. Kids were climbing the nearby play structure, running through the water park and doing arts and crafts with city of Ottawa staff off to the side.

    Good times.

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