Fox Park, St. Louis City

                                 

Location: Bounded by California, Shenandoah, Ohio, and Victor, St. Louis City, MO 63104

    

Website:  https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/parks/parks/browse-parks/view-park.cfm?parkID=40&parkName=Fox%20Park

Playground Ground Cover: Poured Rubber, wood chips

The playground itself isn't anything spectacular but this playground is noteworthy for the splash pad. There are only about 70 splash pads in the entire metro area compared to the many hundreds of parks and playgrounds that exist. Of the 70, only 20 are in the city. Also out of the 20, 8 are just poles that shoot water out of the top. So really there are not that many that have a variety of features that shower, spray, mist, or shoot water. This one has lots of variety! 

The playground has 2 sling swings and 2 baby swings, bridges, slides, a rock wall, and climbers. I did not look in the bathrooms but they look very old from the outside.

This spins around but I couldn't tell if the top was broken off or what that is supposed to be sticking up.

Here is the splash pad, which is on from Memorial Day to Labor Day. 

This is a very small bucket that dumps water out every few minutes, but it's small and easy to avoid if your kids are afraid of that. 

Little free library across the street

St. Ferdinand Park, Florissant

Location: 25 St. Ferdinand Park Dr., Florissant, MO 63031

Website: http://www.florissantmo.com/egov/apps/locations/facilities.egov?view=detail&id=26

Playground Ground Cover: Wood Chips and Poured Rubber

St. Ferdinand Park is a 64-acre park located at the intersection of North Lindbergh and St. Ferdinand Drive.  This park has 5 picnic pavilions each having a BBQ pit of which 3 pavilions have electricity.  There are 6 lighted ball fields along with 3 unlit fields.  There are four playground areas in the park, 2 restrooms, 3 sand volleyball courts, 1 soccer field, 2 tennis courts, and a lake that can be used for fishing.  The park is home to the summer concert series "Music Under the Stars"  held adjacent to the lake during July and August. There are paved walking trails with fitness trail equipment and a little free library. 

The 4 playgrounds are circled in red. The first one we encountered was the most southern one.

They had 2 sling swings, 1 adaptive swing, and 2 baby swings.

 The pavilion and bathroom were close by, as well as the tennis courts. 

 They had several interesting climbers

 My daughter liked the balance beam

 Zipline

 The play structure was large with several different slides, and tons of different bars and poles.

They had a xylophone as well.  The playground is not shaded and can get hot but overall it had a nice variety of things to do for ages 2 to 12. 

If you drive north around the park you will come to the other playgrounds. Here's the next one:

 looking towards the lake to the north

This is one play structure with several different slides, a cool tunnel, a steering wheel, speakers, a maze board, a musical board, a climbing wall, and a ladder.

Here's the smallest one in the park, it's basically just a slide and a pretend window. It's next to the sand volleyball court.

The last playground is the largest and newest. It's next to the lake and it's awesome! The equipment has a balloon theme which is so different and fun. This playground was replaced in late 2022. 

This is the old playground, it was pirate-themed. 

The play structures have a pretend window, slides, a small tunnel, a rock wall, and tons of cool climbing things.

Rolley slide

Floating steps