Now open for the 2021 season!
Location: Community: Crescent Heights – 617 1 St. NE. map
Parking: There is short term free street parking to the East of the park. There is also a parking lot just south of 7th avenue.
Surrounding Park Area: There is some flat grassy areas and tennis courts. There is currently construction to the North of the playground.
Rotary Park Fish Spray Park
Typically opens mid-June until Labor Day. Open 9am-9pm June-July and 9am-7pm Heritage Day to Labor Day. Now open for the 2021 season.
Ground Cover: cement and rubber
Features: Multiple spray park features. Washrooms are open seasonally.
Shade: minimal
Seating: There was only one bench while we were there, but picnic tables and benches are planned
Overall assessment: This spray park opened on June 1, 2011. There is grass around the spray park and it is surrounded by a fence.
The water park operates on vibration sensors so if the water is off during operating hours it’s not closed, it’s just that no one is there. The spray park runs rain or shine and only closes if there is lightening. The two short posts and the tall tower with the buckets are just need to be tapped to turn the various spray equipment back on.
The water is chemically treated and re-circulated to conserve water and keep it clean for the kids to play in. There is an attendant there at all times to maintain and monitor the water quality who is also trained in first aid.
The buckets and spray ‘tunnels’ will appeal to older kids but there are lots of small sprays that even the littlest kids will feel confident playing with.
Rotary Park Playground
Gordie’s Review (2 years old) – The bridge!
Age Range: Good for all ages.
Ground Cover: Pea Gravel.
Features: large preschool play structure with 3 slides; large school-aged playstructure/climbing area with 2 slides and a rock wall; 5 swings (2 baby, 1 tire); motor-cycle bouncer with side car; teeter-totter; dinosaur climber; play jeep and digger.
Shade: Some shade around the play area
Seating: 5 benches and 2 picnic tables. More picnic tables in the surrounding park area.
Accessibility: No access inside the play area except to the first level of the pre-school play structure. There are fun things to do there though including two great musical features.
Overall assessment: This is a really nice playground. The playground has a nice amount of variety and offers entertainment for all ages.
The preschool play structure is one of the best designed ones I’ve seen. It had a lot of appeal for Gordie when he was still an early walker with the ramps, steps, bridges and panels. This year though he still loved it.
Often times the preschool structures are not particularly challenging, but this one has a number of different ways to climb up that will be appropriately challenging for preschoolers.
Gordie’s (2 year’s old) favorite thing was to run up the ramp, up the stairs and across the bridges to play with the race car panel and then run back to the bottom and do it all over again. This playground held his attention better than any other this year.
The school-aged climber was great, in large part because it was just too advanced for Gordie. This means that little kids won’t get into situations that are dangerous and it will be challenging for kids much older than Gordie.
I also really like the two seater bouncer that would be great for siblings. This playground is definitely worth a trip especially in the summer months when the spray park is open.
Can you tell me if the actual playground is fenced?
There was no fence around the playground when I was there last year. But it is set back from the road.
We were here recently and it was a great hit with my 2 year old and 6 year old. We love your website to find places to take the kids, it’s way more helpful than the city website and others.
Just want to add that the colourful flooring of the spray park is not there anymore. Now it’s gray just like the other spray parks. The playgrounds are still great and well maintained.
The best playground for our 2 year old that we’ve ever been to.