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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.

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.

Cedarcroft Park Splash Pad

Mommy really liked the two misting leaves at the Cedarcroft Park Splash pad, but I preferred the dumping buckets at the next splash pad (Queensway Park.)

The water park at Cedarcroft Park is a lot of fun:

There are two giant leaves that spray a refreshing mist. (Similar to the green leaf at the Emerald Woods Park splash pad.)
There are three water spouts from the ground that each send up a shower of water.
There’s a row of single water spouts from the ground that I bet is fun to run under.
The button that starts the magic can be found on the red post

The splash pad at Cedarcroft Park is only a few blocks away from the Meadowbrook park splash pad, but it’s arguably cooler (literally). The great thing about this splash pad is that there’s almost 360 degrees of water fun – it’s easy to get soaking wet in this one. There’s more mist than spray which Mommy loved. read more

Meadowbrook Park Splash Pad

The third splash pad on our whirlwind Gloucester adventure is the urban water park at Meadowbrook Park.

We thought it was broken at first, but that’s only because we had to hold the button in the first time to get it going.

There’s a giant red pole than shoots water into the air.
There are three water streams that shoot out from the ground.
The start button is on a blue post.

The Meadowbrook Park splash pad looks like it has been recently redone (compared to the older wooden post at the Cyrville Park splash pad.) We liked the cool interlock and shade. The interlock looks like something that someone would have in their backyard with their pool. read more

Emerald Woods Park Splash Pad

Of all the splash pads that we saw today (Butterfly Park, Turtle Park, Aladdin Park and this one), Emerald Wood Park had the coolest splash pad.

There’s so much to like about this water park. Emerald Wood Park itself has some great play structures nestled into a foresty backdrop, so it only makes sense that the spash pad fits this woodland theme.

There’s a giant leaf that sprays mist once it gets going.

The giant flower pours water along the edges of the petals to make a ring on the ground.

The four water fountains shooting up from the ground are very cool. My two year old daughter liked playing with them at the end when the water pressure dropped to a respectable splashing level.

There’s a button on the red post that starts everything off – it’s a nice long cycle with a single push.

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