Taylor Park, Clayton

Location: 222 N. Central Ave, Clayton, MO 63105

Website: http://www.claytonmo.gov/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/30/314
 
Playground Ground Cover: Poured Rubber

From the website:

This one acre park is located in the Old Town Neighborhood, at the northern city limits of Clayton.
On the Central Avenue side, gardens with seasonal color welcome visitors to the park. A circular sidewalk flanked by benches leads to a charming gazebo dedicated to Mrs. Kitty Hoblitzelle and a large playground for preschoolers. To the east there is a level, open area to play in, lovely shade gardens, and picnic tables under a canopy of large oaks where visitors can enjoy their lunch.
Taylor Park offers a wide expanse of open lawn that runs nearly a block in length on the Kingsbury side, where picnics and games are a common occurrence.  Play structures for ages 2 to 5 on the North Central side include a climbing set, swings, slide, and more.  The park hosts visitors of all ages who find something to enjoy, whether it be history, horticulture, or just having fun."

This playground was just remodeled and is so much nicer! It's very toddler-friendly with a fence running almost all the way around it, and lots of things for little guys between 2 and 5 to do.

There are 2 slings and 2 baby swings. The baby swings are covered on the other end of the playground.

 There are ramps everywhere making this a great playground for kids of all abilities.

The playstructure has a bunch of maze boards, a tunnel, slides, rock wall, tons of bars and poles, ramps, and a bridge.

Large green space for running around

Check out this list of other playgrounds that are enclosed or fenced in.

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.