Area: Central Whitby

Age Range: 18months+

Parking:  large parking lot off of Jeffery Street

Ground Cover: mulch

Main Equipment:

• 4 infant swings
• 2 accessible bucket swings
• 2 swings
• 3 slides
• 2 climbers
• 2 sand diggers
• ship with navigational tools

Accessibility Features: 2 bucket swings, musical instrument stations, play ship with navigational tools, sand digger

Facilities/Other:

• Jeffery Park Splash Pad
• seasonal portable washroom 
• basketball court
• soccer pitch
• field

Surrounding Park Area: Surrounded by large fields and connected to walking paths this is another great park to keep you entertained all day

Seating: 4 benches around the playground, very long concrete bench surrounding one corner of the playground space by the accessible swings, 3 two person picnic tables under the shade sail by the splash pad

Shade: shade sail over the splash pad picnic tables, there could be a shade sail over the sandpit (the posts were there when we visited, but the sail was missing)

Overall assessment: A new favourite themed park for us because of the amount of creative ship play! The number of navigational features and unique creative play elements incorporated to make this ship part of the entire structure allows more than one or two kids to interactive with this creative play theme! Add to this the awesome splash pad, splash pad run off creek, and surrounding fields and you've got yourself an entire day outing in one place! The portable washroom is a bit hard to see (as it is on the other side of the parking lot from the splash pad and playground) but it is a big bonus to have parks with washrooms in our minds.

Area: North Whitby

Installed: 2010

Age Range: toddler and up

Parking:  parking lot off of Darren Ave

Ground Cover: mulch with one sand area

Main Equipment:

• 2 swings
• 2 infant swings
• 2 accessible bucket swings
• rope climbing apparatus
• 7 stone climbing sculptures + canoe! (did we mention there is a canoe?)
• 2 rockers
• 2 scoop diggers
• 1 metal small slide
• 1 teeter rocker
• 1 saucer swing
• 2 sand play tables

Accessibility Features: 2 bucket seat swings, 1 saucer swing, chair teeter rocker, 1 accessible scoop digger, accessible music station, accessible sand play table peninsulas

Facilities/Other:

• Splash Pad
• soccer field
• basketball court
• paved bike path

Surrounding Park Area: A small paved bike path circling the park and green space, soccer field, and Splash Pad

Seating: 11 park benches and a small rock circle sitting area

Shade: no shade on the park, but some shade offered from a pavilion over a few benches

Overall assessment: Very toddler friendly playground with a great sand area.  A lot of climbing features for the older kids that are very unique.

Area: Central Whitby

Age Range: 2 and up

Parking:  large parking lot off of Trent Street for the playground and splash pad, and parking lot off of Burns Street for the sports fields

Ground Cover: mulch

Main Equipment:

• 4 swings
• 2 infant swings
• 2 metal slides
• 1 rock climbing sculpture
• rock climbing course
• 3 sand diggers *with attached water feature
• multiple spinners
• multiple rockers

Accessibility Features: spinner, climbing course lower elements, sand digger

Facilities/Other:

• Splash Pad
• Washrooms (hours 9:00am to 9:00pm first week of May to first week of October)
• 3 tennis courts
• 3 baseball diamonds
• lacrosse box
• soccer pitch *with lighting until 11:00pm

Surrounding Park Area: this is the largest park renovation in the downtown Whitby area in the last few years and it is definitely worth a trip!  

Seating: 5 park benches, 2 picnic tables with checker/chess boards

Shade: some shade over parts of the playground and shade from the surrounding trees in the field 

Overall assessment: Great climbing park! There is also enough to entertain multiple ages all at once. This park is worth the trip.