Area: South Oshawa
Age Range: infant to 12 years
Parking: plenty of parking just off of Lakeview Park Ave beside the Jubilee Pavillion Banquet and Conference Centre
Ground Cover: rubber surface on the toddler area, mulch for the larger structure and other activities
Main Equipment:
Accessibility Features: ramp onto toddler playground, wheelchair height music station, accessory stations throughout toddler structure talking tubes, 2 accessory bucket swings, supernova spinner
Facilities/Other:
Surrounding Park Area: a beautiful waterfront trail as well as plenty of fields and greenspace surround this park (note: for soccer and baseball you will have to cross the street from the main building and playground area)
Seating: 4 picnic table benches in the centre of the playground (no backs on these benches), seating rocks around the parks, some benches by the swings, and picnic tables scattered around the park
Shade: none on the playground itself, but plenty in the surrounding park area
Overall assessment: This is a fantastic park for toddlers! There is a large splash pad too so if you are going to this park expect the wee tykes to want to get a bit wet if they're hot. There are plenty of areas for imaginative play here from the accessible boat like structures, to the balancing rope swing, to the two person you & me swing seat. We appreciated seeing another rubber surface for toddlers too.
The big kids loved the giant tube slide and tower as well as the zip lines. It was great fun to explore when the park was quiet and a cold Spring day (still had 15 kids running around us though). There are so many different things to do that are spread out it that makes the kids feel like they were always exploring something new. There are a few things that I didn't like though 1) there are few sightlines where you can see mpre than one area if you bring multiple kids to the park (which includes not being able to see in the tower) 2) the tower itself acts as a bottleneck funneling kids up (so once you're up, you're up) which is an issue with several openings for other features like a slide, fireman pole, and dual bars (where we have heard pushing has lead to injuries, especially if kids are not expecting to go down a firepole because of a traffic jam issue in the tower) and finally 3) the toddler area had a couple of ground accessory stations with tubes (usually meant for water play or sand or woodchips) well this makes the rubber surface a mess as the toddlers have figured out they 'need' to bring woodchips from the big playground over.
Things we did love? A quiet day to explore everything, as there are a lot of different features here! My favourite is the you & me swing because our 8 yr old could help swing the 5 year old, while I pushed the toddler in the infant swing.
Age Range: infant to 12 years
Parking: plenty of parking just off of Lakeview Park Ave beside the Jubilee Pavillion Banquet and Conference Centre
Ground Cover: rubber surface on the toddler area, mulch for the larger structure and other activities
Main Equipment:
- 4 swings
- 3 infant swings
- 2 accessible bucket swings
- 1 two person you and me swing
- 1 saucer swing
- 1 balancing rope swing
- 1 large tube slide
- 2 slides (1 metal)
- 3 toddler slides
- 1 three person teeter rocker
- 2 rockers
- 2 seat spinners
- 1 rope web
- 2 zip lines
- 1 supernova carousel
Accessibility Features: ramp onto toddler playground, wheelchair height music station, accessory stations throughout toddler structure talking tubes, 2 accessory bucket swings, supernova spinner
Facilities/Other:
- picnic table area
- concession stand (open daily from 11am)
- Oshawa community museum (open daily from 11am to 4pm; small fees apply)
- public washrooms
- soccer fields
- baseball fields
- Splash Pad
Surrounding Park Area: a beautiful waterfront trail as well as plenty of fields and greenspace surround this park (note: for soccer and baseball you will have to cross the street from the main building and playground area)
Seating: 4 picnic table benches in the centre of the playground (no backs on these benches), seating rocks around the parks, some benches by the swings, and picnic tables scattered around the park
Shade: none on the playground itself, but plenty in the surrounding park area
Overall assessment: This is a fantastic park for toddlers! There is a large splash pad too so if you are going to this park expect the wee tykes to want to get a bit wet if they're hot. There are plenty of areas for imaginative play here from the accessible boat like structures, to the balancing rope swing, to the two person you & me swing seat. We appreciated seeing another rubber surface for toddlers too.
The big kids loved the giant tube slide and tower as well as the zip lines. It was great fun to explore when the park was quiet and a cold Spring day (still had 15 kids running around us though). There are so many different things to do that are spread out it that makes the kids feel like they were always exploring something new. There are a few things that I didn't like though 1) there are few sightlines where you can see mpre than one area if you bring multiple kids to the park (which includes not being able to see in the tower) 2) the tower itself acts as a bottleneck funneling kids up (so once you're up, you're up) which is an issue with several openings for other features like a slide, fireman pole, and dual bars (where we have heard pushing has lead to injuries, especially if kids are not expecting to go down a firepole because of a traffic jam issue in the tower) and finally 3) the toddler area had a couple of ground accessory stations with tubes (usually meant for water play or sand or woodchips) well this makes the rubber surface a mess as the toddlers have figured out they 'need' to bring woodchips from the big playground over.
Things we did love? A quiet day to explore everything, as there are a lot of different features here! My favourite is the you & me swing because our 8 yr old could help swing the 5 year old, while I pushed the toddler in the infant swing.
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