Loretto Manor Park, Florissant

Location: 1605 Patterson Rd, Florissant, MO 63031

Website: http://www.florissantmo.com/egov/apps/locations/facilities.egov?view=detail&id=23

Playground Ground Cover: Wood Chips

This is a strange park. It's long and skinny, along a major busy street with no parking or restrooms, and the equipment is really spread out. There's also some big electrical towers here as well. Overall just a strange place for kids to play. Because of that I would only recommend school aged kids to play here. St. Ferdinand Park is just a couple blocks away and they have 4 playgrounds, I would just go there!

 A lone slide

 Tiny play structure with 2 slides, a steering wheel, and some poles.

 2 sling swings and 2 baby swings. 

Trojan Park, Wellston

Location: 6154 Etzel Ave, St. Louis, MO 63133

Website: https://greatriversgreenway.org/trojan-park-st-vincent-greenway-now-open-wellston-community-explore-enjoy/

Playground Ground Cover: Poured Rubber

This playground and splashpad is a wonderful addition to this area. Trojan Park is the result of a community engagement process that focused on desired amenities. The completed park features a modern playground, full-size basketball and volleyball courts, splash pad, a family picnic area, and extensive shade structures. There is also a full repertoire of outdoor adult fitness equipment.

They have musical instruments, slides, tons of cool climbers, I mean this place has everything. There are at least 6 structures with lots of different things on them to do. And there are lots of tables and benches with shade covers over them. I didn't see any restrooms though. Shame!

These last 3 photos are overheads from the architects website. I didn't see the splash pad running when I was there, not sure if it has certain hours or was just inactive or what. 

Sunset Hills Aquatic Facility, Sunset Hills

Location:  12512 W. Watson, St. Louis, MO 63127

Website: http://www.sunset-hills.com/Facilities/Facility/Details/Aquatic-Facility-1

Amenities: ADA Accessible, bleacher seats, competition pool, concession stand, diving boards, lazy river, water table, and leisure pool.

You can see from this overhead image that there are 2 areas, the deep competition pool and the lazy river/ kid area. This pool is shallower and has 2 whirlpools which you can see as the circles across from each other. The one on the left has buckets that spill over every few seconds and there are pop jets and zero entry kid friendly areas over here. They also have a water table for toddlers with tons of rubber duckies and plastic animals!

I've never seen this at a pool before! 

The competition pool with bleacher seats and 2 diving boards

The night I was here was was a special event called Family Dinner and Concert Night. They had a band playing here and some food trucks. They opened the pool up to the public at $4 per person. Normally they don't allow non residents in, and they don't do a tot time, so I recommend coming here for this event! They have a few more happening over the summer.

Entrance building where the locker rooms and concession stand are located.

 lazy river

Such a great pool! We really enjoyed it.

Laurel Park, St. Peters

Location: 181 Driftwood Ln,  St. Peters, MO 63376

Amenities: playground, picnic shelters, trails, outdoor swimming pool, basketball

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

Playground ground cover: poured rubber and wood chips under the swings

There are 3 playgrounds at Laurel park, as well as an outdoor swimming pool. The playgrounds are brand new because some jerks set fire to the old playground in 2016.

They set that tunnel on fire so now they filled in the tunnel.

They now have 2 expression swings and 2 baby swings. Up on the higher playground they have 4 sling swings.

When you first walk up you can see the smaller of the 2 playgrounds on the left, and the bigger kid playground up the stairs. On the right of the stairs is a cool musical playground filled with electronic things to play with.

Musical playground filled with drums, bells, and all kinds of cool things. 

 Looking down at the smaller playground from up above. There are tunnels, slides, rock walls, and bars and poles.

The bigger playground has lots of cool climbing things, slides, rock walls, a tunnel, boards, a maze board, and a bridge.