Summer Park Adventures, park 3

Saturday evening we took a (pretty lame) picnic dinner to Grant Park, 31800 Madiera Place (off Clearbrook Road by the Chevron). This park just opened in April, and you can tell. It's pretty snazzy looking and has caught my kids' eyes so many times from the freeway as we've zoomed by. Having lived in the Clearbrook area for a few years, with a backyard from which we could've sold lemonade to the summer travellers crawling by on the #1 on Sunday nights, I was not so keen to go and hang out at a park right on the freeway. But it turned out to be pretty cool.

This is the 2-5 year old playground section



Grant Park is brand new and is very funky, with lots of new things, like plastic congo drums. It has 2 'baby' swings, 4 regular swings, funky boingy things (frog and horse, respectively), a basketball court, and a great big (well, by suburban standards) forest for exploring. Also I loved that it had a "2-5years" playground and a "5-12 years" playground. The 'bigger kids' playground had a nice tall, windy slide that Caius just loved. My older two (5 1/2 and 4) loved both playgrounds, actually, but it was awesome to have a littler, safer one that occupied Mia nicely. It also has a baseball diamond and bathrooms.

Upside: New, age appropriate, lots of different stuff, nice and breezy on a summer night.
Downside: A lot of people biked through there while we were there...a few stopped to enjoy their wacky tabaccy...let's just say it's probably not somewhere you'd want to go too late at night.