Kinetic Park, Dardenne Prairie

Location: 7801 Hwy N, Dardenne Prairie, MO 63368

Website: https://www.sccmo.org/741/Kinetic-Park

Playground Ground Cover: Poured rubber

Honestly, there's not much of a playground here. It's just a spiderweb-style climber. This park is better known for other things, mainly the skate park. The 25-acre park formerly known as youth Activity Park (YAP) is taking "extreme" sports to the next level with its state-of-the-art 33,000-square foot skate course! This course is equipped with nighttime lighting and has beginner, intermediate and advanced bowls, a street course, and a snake run scattered with ramps, gaps, hubbas and much more!

The course is open year-round to users of all ages, skateboards, inline skates, scooters, and BMX bikes can ride throughout the concrete facility that offers challenges for every skill level. Helmets are required for all extreme sports enthusiasts using the skate course. Designed to provide a safe place for area youth to enjoy an assortment of alternative recreational opportunities, it's also the largest outdoor skate park in the state of Missouri.

In addition to the skate course, the facility also features a 30-foot indoor rock climbing wall, a sand volleyball court, half-court basketball, an open play area, table tennis, foosball table, air hockey, and a large video gaming area equipped with 2 flat-screen televisions. Reserve an area of the indoor complex for the next birthday party, company picnic, or family function. Skate School 101 and 102 sessions are led by skilled skate instructors throughout the year, and the staff host an annual Night of Fright haunted house during October.

 This is the playground, there is an awning but it just covers the benches.

Kinetic Park’s 33,000-square-foot concrete skate course is the largest in the state. It offers beginner, intermediate and advanced bowls, a street course, and a snake run scattered with ramps, gaps, hubbas, and more. It’s open year-round to all ages, for skateboards, inline skates, scooters, and bikes. Nighttime lighting means fun in the evening hours as well!

The pump track is the largest asphalt track in the entire country!

The indoor rock wall

Eureka Mountain Bike Park, Eureka

Location: 1 Coffey Park Ln., Eureka, MO 63025

Website: https://www.eureka.mo.us/Facilities/Facility/Details/Eureka-Mountain-Bike-Park-17

Amenities: 

• Bike Playground - The Foothills
• Bike Trail
• Colossus Two Way Directional Trail
• Drop Zone Trail-Intermediate
• Dual Slalom
• East Coast Trail-Beginner
• North Shore Trail-Intermediate
• Parking
• Pump & Jump Trail
• Restrooms
• Rocky IV-Intermediate Trail
• The Kraken-Intermediate Trail
• Walking Trail-These Boots
• West Coast Trail-Beginner
• Wildcat Jumps Trail-Intermediate

This park is awesome, and it's free and open to the general public. It's open from dawn to dusk and it's back behind the Timbers of Eureka. There are several trails that range from beginner to intermediate. There are restrooms and a covered pavilion right next to it, but the restrooms are closed for the winter. (They brought in a port a potty but I'm not sure how long it will be there). Beware of mud- I took my daughter a couple days after heavy rain and there was a lot of mud from the bike tires in the back of our SUV! 

To see more photos and bikers in action check out their Facebook page. What a great addition to Eureka! My daughter loved riding her bike here and watching older kids do jumps and tricks. 

Farmington Skate Park at Long Park

 

Location: 400 Ste. Genevieve Ave., Farmington, MO 63640

Website: https://farmington-mo.gov/recreation/farmington-parks/farmington-skate-park/

The largest outdoor concrete Skate Park in Southeast Missouri featuring 30,000 square feet of challenging twists and turns for both beginning and advanced skaters. The Skate Park is located at 404 Ste. Genevieve Avenue (the old swimming location). The facility welcomes inline-skates, skateboards, and BMX bikes. The Skate Park is FREE of charge and open to everyone. The facility is unsupervised, and users assume all risks inherent in the use of the facility. The park includes the following amenities:

• Bowls
• rails
• spines
• qps
• 8 stair
• 4 stair
• 2 steps
• pyramid
• box mountain
• ledges rollins
• pyramid with rail

Larimore Park, Spanish Lake

Location: 11726 Larimore Rd., St. Louis, MO 63138

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

Playground Ground Cover: Rubber mats

Larimore Park is a 32 acre neighborhood park located in northeastern St. Louis County. Park amenities include a basketball court, a restroom building, a shelter, a football/soccer field, a skate park, playground, and parking.

 Pavilion

There is one play structure but it's nice. It has several slides, a rolling log, a tunnel, a bridge, a maze board, an abacus, and tons of bars and poles.

Brown Road Park, St. Peters

Location: 100 Brown Rd, St. Peters, MO 63376

Website: http://www.stpetersmo.net/st-peters-parks.aspx#brownroad

Playground Ground Cover: Poured rubber

The St. Peters website says there is a playground here, but there is not. There are only 4 sling swings and that's it. However, it's worth including because it is one of the few places in St. Louis that has sanctioned BMX tracks.