Affton Community Center, Affton

Location: 9801 MacKenzie Rd., Affton, MO 63123

Website: https://stlouiscountymo.gov/st-louis-county-departments/parks/places/affton-community-center/

Playground Ground Cover: Poured Rubber

This playground is front and center when you pull into the parking lot at Affton White-Rodgers Community Center. They have a shuffleboard, tic tac toe board, bridges, slides, monkey bars, rock wall, and more. No swings though! Bathrooms are inside.

St. George Park, Affton

Location: 9041 Southview Ln, St. Louis, MO 63123

Website: https://stlouiscountymo.gov/st-louis-county-departments/parks/places/st-george-park/

Playground Ground Cover: Poured Rubber

This playground is a bit difficult to find. I plugged in the official address of 9041 Southview Ln. into my GPS and set off. I could see the playground equipment behind the houses but never saw a park entrance. All the houses had fenced-in backyards and I was confused as to how to get back there. There was another street in the subdivision behind it so I went out on Mackenzie and went there but still never saw any park entrance. I looked again at my map and was totally confused. I asked some people outside if they knew how to get there and they did! They told me to go back to where I originally was. I did that and lo and behold I saw the entrance. It's very easy to miss because it looks like someone's driveway.

 See how confusing that is? Drive along the right side of the fence and this comes into view.

Also technically this was created when St. George was a municipality, but it has since ceased to exist, so this area is technically unincorporated.

The park consists of a basketball court, a couple picnic benches, a BBQ pit, and 2 play structures. There are slides, a tunnel, a baby swing, a sling swing, and an ADA swing. 

Park is circled in red with the entrance marked by the red arrow. Such a strange configuration! But I bet it's nice for the people who live in this subdivision.

Mathilda-Welmering, Affton

Location: 8301 Mathilda Ave, Affton, MO 63123

Website: https://stlouiscountymo.gov/st-louis-county-departments/parks/places/mathilda-welmering-park/

Playground Ground Cover: Poured rubber 

This is a small park, but there's a lot here. The park features a basketball court, a baseball field, play equipment, a splash pad, a covered picnic pavilion with a double grill, and volleyball poles. There is a tiny creek to the right of the restrooms. This is like a whole new park with the brand new playground installed in 2022, and the restroom building and splash pad renovated earlier in the year. 
Right in front of the restrooms is the splash pad. It's on the small side with 4 jets and a motion-activated button on the ground. 

There is a saucer swing, an adaptive swing, 2 baby swings, and 2 sling swings.

The larger playground for kids over 5 has a cool net bridge, slides, leaf climbing wall, and lots of bars and poles for climbing. 

The smaller play structure has a cool maze spinner, a slide, and a climbing wall.

I love the blue and green colors and the shade screens.

The splash pad

Covered pavilion with electric grill