What better way to spend a day than in a park close to home? Don’t forget to bring your towels!
Manhattan
This is a perfect place for a hot summer day! It’s filled with water activities that you and your children will love. The park features a play area consisting of a small water pool. The water also shoots out from spouts! Open all year from 8 A.M. to dusk. Water features are turned off in the winter.
Science comes to life at this water play area! Your children can make sculptures spin by pumping water. Gates will rise and descend as they pump away opening up into a mini canal. This park is open from 6 A.M. to 1 A.M. throughout the year, but water features do not run in the winter season.
Located in Battery Park, this is a place you’ll want to revisit! It offers a water slide that your kids will enjoy. From beneath a collection of unusual rocks, water shoots into the air!
Watch where you step or you might be standing on a jet! Water shoots through the air from the ground! Along with the jets on the floor, the passageways are filled with jets spraying water! There is a separate play area for younger ones that has gentle water sprayers. This part of the park is open from 7:30 A.M. to dusk.
Queens
This park not only has an AstroTurf field with a playground but this park has a tall sprinkler feature that will keep you cool on a hot summer day! To add a creative spin, the sprinkler theme shower is in the shape of cat tails!
Brooklyn
The new LeFrak Center at Prospect Park will keep your children happy,busy, and wet! The old skating rink was transformed into a water play area. The LeFrak Center now includes 41 jets and a fountain that lights up at night! Along with the park, paddle boats will be back to explore the Prospect Park Lake.
Your children will love the Water Lab playground in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Filled with a water jet field and a water channel, you’re kids won’t want to leave! Along with the Water Lab, Pier 6 has an abundance of slides, swings, and a sandbox!
Bronx
Take part in one of the Bronx’s greenest parks. Using recycled water from the watering of plants and trees through irrigation, the playgrounds are sprayed with the recycled water! The playground is named after Richard March Hoe, the inventor of the printing press.
