Showing posts with label Augusta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Augusta. Show all posts

Monday, April 1, 2024

Klondike Park, Augusta


Location: 4600 S. Missouri 91, Augusta, MO 63332

Website: https://www.sccmo.org/690/Klondike-Park

Playground Ground Cover: Rubber Mats


Klondike is a beautiful and unique park. It has more than 4 miles of natural and paved trails for hiking and biking. Once the site of an old silica sand quarry, the area has been preserved and turned into beautiful parkland. A unique lookout bluff provides picturesque views of the Missouri River Valley, as well as the historic Katy Trail.

This cozy camping retreat, nestled in Missouri’s wine country, has become a preferred camping destination. Spend a relaxing weekend camping under the stars close to home! It features six rustic cabins that sleep up to eight guests, 43 campsites with restrooms, and a shower house nearby.

With a modern meeting facility on-site, it’s the perfect location for a family or business outing. It also features a large fishing lake fully stocked with bluegill, bass, and catfish and free boat ramps to access the Missouri River. A unique birding/wildlife area, picnic shelters, and playgrounds for children are just a few more amenities to enjoy while at Klondike Park.

This is the only playground, it's mostly just a large climbing structure. 













Restrooms





Close to this playground is the 'beach' access. There is real white sand here because of its past as a silica quarry. But please don't swim here, swimming is NOT allowed. 















This is one of the 'playgrounds' but it's just 2 sling swings.





Saturday, September 16, 2023

Centennial Farms and Orchard, Augusta





Location: 199 Jackson St, Augusta, MO 63332      636-228-4338

Website: http://centennialfarms.biz/

This farm has been around forever, and in the fall it's really cute. "Pumpkin picking has started and our yearly transformation into Pumpkin Fantasyland is underway. Walk into our farmstead and be surrounded by pumpkin characters and Halloween fun. We decorate with full-size pumpkin and gourd figures representing farm folks, storybook characters, and some of your favorite movie characters. There are aliens and a crashed spaceship. A graveyard has some very humorous inscriptions, most of them from real cemeteries. Mixed in with the figures are hundreds of pumpkins from minis to some big ones."











That red barn is 160 years old and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.






 The store had some nice selections





 Wizard of Oz headless characters


 Pumpkin tree


Hayrides


  Playground area




Corn bin


Haybale maze






Pumpkin bounce pillow



Pumpkin patch






This is a working farm so you can pick apples and pumpkins here during September and October.