O'Fallon Community Park, O'Fallon IL

                                           


Location: 401 E. 5th. St., O'Fallon, IL 62269

Website: https://www.ofallon.org/parks/pages/community-park

Playground Ground Cover: Poured rubber

Amenities: Pool, ball fields, running paths, tennis courts, basketball courts, and 4 pavilions.

This is a very large playground in a very large park, and the playground has a train theme! The city of O'Fallon completely renovated this park starting in 2023, with a new aquatic center, a new playground (dubbed the Playground of Champions), a new community center (Cavins Center), a new amphitheater, and a paved lighted multi-use path (.8 miles long). 

The amphitheater

The playground is enclosed with a fence, but there is no gate at the entrance. 

Rocking boat

Ziplines

There is an ADA swing, a baby swing, 2 sling swings, and a modified expression swing. 

There are so many fun elements to this all-abilities playground, including ramps, tunnels, interactive boards, musical instruments, bridges, a rock wall, slides, a swing for a wheelchair, tic-tac-toe boards, and more. 

This sensory tunnel is awesome!

Swansea Kingdom at Schranz Memorial Park, Swansea, IL

Location:  377 Honeysuckle Lane, Swansea, IL 62226

Amenities: playground, picnic shelter, restrooms, sprayground, trails

Website: http://www.swanseail.org/1082/Parks-Recreation

Playground ground cover: Rubber chips & wood chips

This is a great park with a castle theme. The equipment is all new as of 2025 on the big playground.  A ramp connects the regular playground to the tot lot, which is fenced in except for the one entry point. The tot lot has two baby swings, an adaptive swing, and a sling swing. There is a toddler/preschool-sized slide, monkey bars, a bridge, a steering wheel, drums, and a small sand play area. There's a fenced-in splashpad on the other side of the parking lot, (I would consider the location to be a bit of a drawback, because children are often running back and forth across the parking lot between the two). It has two child-operated spray guns, as well as fountains of various types and heights. There's also one large picnic shelter, several smaller ones, and a walking trail that winds around the park. 

The splash pad

The tot area

Amphitheatre

The big playground is huge and has everything a kid could want, including a modified merry-go-round, interactive boards, boulders, a modified teeter-totter, drums, a rock wall, a tunnel, lots of slides, and a dragon climber. 

There is one expression swing, 3 sling swings, 1 adaptive swing, and 2 baby swings.