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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

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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    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

    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