Black Forest Park, Lemay

Location: 9822 Perrin Ave, St. Louis, MO 63125

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

Playground Ground Cover: Rubber mats

Located next to Notre Dame High School, this park contains a ball field, pavilion, restrooms, and playground. The playground has 2 zip lines, a caterpillar thing you walk on and the sections move, a balance beam, stepping stones of varying heights, and 2 play structures. They consist of a tic-tac-toe board, several slides, and various bars and poles.

Bohrer Park, South County

Location: 5705 South Lindbergh, St. Louis, MO 63123

Amenities: playground, picnic shelter, trails, playground, restroom, ball fields, tennis courts, horseshoe pits

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

Playground ground cover: Poured rubber

This playground was redone in 2018. The old playground desperately needed to be replaced and this new one is awesome! They got rid of the dreaded pea gravel and replaced it with poured rubber. They also added an expression swing and a zipline!

 There is playground equipment spread out everywhere, not the usual one for bigs and one for littles configuration. They have a small slide, a spinning seat, a rope climber, a rock wall climber, a zip line, swings, and a spray pole.

They have an adaptive swing, a baby swing, and 2 sling swings at the playground proper. There are older ones down the path in the shade as well.

Spray pole

Tiny cave and climbing netting

They kept the old sling swings down the path toward the pond

Baby swings down the way

Tennis courts

The bathrooms are still old with no doors on the stalls, but at least they have them.

The pond