Larson Park, Webster Groves

Location: 520 West Kirkham Ave, Webster Groves, MO 63119

Website: http://mo-webstergroves2.civicplus.com/177/Larson-Park

Playground Ground Cover: Poured rubber, wood chips

Amenities: Ballfields, tennis courts, playground, trails, fire pit, pavilion, and a creek.

This playground is really fun. It's bug-themed and has some cool features. It has 2 baby swings, 4 sling swings, 1 play structure for older kids and 1 for younger kids, a free-standing rock wall, a baseball-themed tic tac toe board, and bug accents everywhere! This playground is partially shaded and has lots of benches, plus a big open space for the kids to run right next to it. 

The poured rubber even used to have bugs in them, but alas, the playground has since gotten new flooring.

Bathrooms

Little Free Library

This path is the entrance to the creek

Back in 2015, this sign was here. It wasn't here today so I am assuming the water is now safe? But still kind of worries me if the sign was here at one point and isn't now. Enter at your own risk I guess. 

Walking trail

What an awesome fire pit!

Large covered pavilion with grill

Chesterfield Family Aquatic Center, Chesterfield

Location: 16365 Lydia Hill Dr., Chesterfield, MO 63017   Located inside Central Park

Amenities:

• splash pad
• leisure pool with a splash playground (including 2 kiddo slides) and a water slide
• competition pool with two diving boards
• lazy river with single and double tubes
• 2 large water slides
• changing areas for men, women, and families with showers and lockers
• concessions area
• deck space for sunning

overhead satellite view from Google Maps

Website: https://www.chesterfield.mo.us/chesterfield-family-aquatic-center.html

The Chesterfield Family Aquatic Center is a great facility for the entire family. My toddler loved the splash playground and could even go down the smaller of the 2 slides on it. She also got a kick out of sitting on my lap while floating around the lazy river. Older children will love the slides and diving boards. Another nice feature of this facility is that the lockers require a quarter to lock them, but you get the quarter back when you open it back up. The facility is half price for both residents and non-residents after 5 pm, so if you only plan on swimming for an hour or two, show up after 5 and you don't have to pay as much.

Cons to this facility include the layout of the pools - you have to walk halfway around the lazy river to grab a tube and then walk back around to the entrance to the lazy river (although you can often find an empty tube left next to the entrance to the lazy river as well). Also, the large slides are not close to the rest of the pools so in order to watch someone going down the slides you have to walk to the far end of the park.

You can see this area has a zero-depth entry which is nice for the little ones.

Purple Slide

 Splash pad

Unfortunately, the 2 big slides and lazy river were not open when we were there due to a mechanical issue. My kids were bummed. 

The concessions menu was a bit limited but the prices were great.