Woodland Park, Collinsville

Location: 2 Pine Lake Rd., Collinsville, IL 62234

Website: https://www.collinsvilleil.org/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/6/263

Playground Ground Cover: Wood chips and poured rubber

Woodland Park offers walking trails, playgrounds, ballfields, a disc golf course, basketball courts, and plenty of trees for nice shade. This park is very large and it has 3 playgrounds. This is the first one you come to in the park.

It has a huge play structure with bridges, slides, a tic-tac-toe board, pretend window, a rock wall, and tons of bars and poles. There are also 2 baby swings and 2 sling swings. 

Covered pavilion

Lake and creek next to the playground

Another covered pavilion

                               

The second playground has a poured rubber floor, 2 baby swings, and 2 sling swings. 

There is one large play structure with a bench, slides, a rock wall, a steering wheel, steps, cables to climb, a bridge, speakers, and monkey bars. 

The third playground has one large play structure. It has slides, tic-tac-toe boards, an informational solar system board, a rock wall, and bars and poles for climbing. 

There is 1 baby swing and 3 sling swings.

Collinsville Aqua Park, Collinsville, IL

Location: 10 Gateway Drive, Collinsville, IL 62234

Amenities: 

• Lap pool: 3ft 6' to  9 ft. deep water, with an Aquaclimb wall
• Leisure pool: zero to 4.5 feet deep, 2 slides, lily pad walk, children's water playground
• Lazy River: 3.5 feet deep, single and double tubes
• Monsoon Mountain: Interactive water playground with 5 slides of various sizes
• Concessions
• Lockers

Overhead satellite view of the park from google maps

Website: https://www.collinsvilleil.org/departments/aquapark

This was formerly called Splash City. This is a large, outdoor water park with something for all ages. When you enter the facility the first pool you see is the leisure pool. This pool starts at zero entry and goes 3 feet deep at the lily pad walk and the slides. The children's water playground has sprays and a slide.  There is a kiddie pool for the littlest swimmers (or sunbathing mothers as evident in my photos below!) 

Water spout walkway

Lily Pad Walk and 2 Water Slides

The small lap pool is 3 feet 6 inches to a deeper depth (9 feet). There are steps into the pool and a rope designating the drop-off to the deeper section.  You can try to climb the Aquawall, it's harder than it looks!

The Monsoon Mountain interactive water playground has 5 slides, from a small one for little kids to 2 big ones in the back. The 4 other slides are true water slides. Three are enclosed slides and the fourth is an open slide.

This thing is as big if not bigger than the one at Hurricane Harbor, and it's fun in there! My kids would not leave.

You are not allowed to bring in any inflatables (but they do allow life jackets and have a rack full of life jackets to borrow while at the pool). You also cannot bring in any outside food OR drink (including water, unless it is in a factory-sealed clear bottle). You can bring in an empty water bottle and fill it from their water fountains inside the facility though. They did search my bag before entering. 

The kiddie pool

The lazy river

Concessions & Party Cove

My overall impression was that this was a great place, but a bit on the pricey side. It was $59 for me and my 2 kids. When we went to the Chesterfield Aquatic Center a few weeks ago it was only a little over $20 for the 3 of us ($9 per person). We were over here in Illinois for a specific reason but I wouldn't make the trip over here just for this park. The kids did say that Monsoon Mountain was amazing and they loved the lazy river. So they gave this place 2 big thumbs up!