Leon Corlew Park, Edwardsville

Location: 333 S. Main St., Edwardsville, IL 62025

Website: https://www.cityofedwardsville.com/481/Leon-Corlew-Splash-Pad

Playground Ground Cover: Poured Rubber

I consider this a destination playground and splashpad. It's completely amazing.  I'll talk about the playground first. It has 2 play structures, one for littles and one for kids over 5. The small one has a maze board, 2 different slides, a small rock wall, and nearby there are 2 spring cars.

You can see the splashpad next to the playground with the restrooms in between the two.

The larger playground is 3 stories with all kinds of cool things. There are 2 different tube slides, a rock wall, floating steps, a tunnel, a tic tac toe board, monkey bars, and other various bars and poles. It's brand new, clean, and there are several large covered pavilions nearby. They also sell concessions at certain times. They have speakers at the concession area and Disney songs were playing, which everyone seemed to enjoy.

I saved the best for last, the splashpad. This is one of the coolest splash pads I've ever seen. It's like the ones at the pools, but it's at a park and completely free. There are lots of little buckets that fill up and pour out water, plus one really large one. There are things that kids can manipulate and 2 little animals that spray water (a snail and a frog). The flooring is rubber and not concrete which is great, and they have cubbies for your belongings. They have covered benches and pavilions nearby also. Basically everything you could ever want in a park is here!