Hutch Park Tour 2013 - 5 Parks Left

Parks with Playgrounds (crossed out are parks we've been to and the bold parks are reviewed in this post):

1. Shady Ridge
2. Women's Club
3. Rotary- "Hard Park" close to our house and we go all the time 
4. Oddfellows 
5. Roberts
6. Masonic/West River 
7. Riverside Jaycee 
8. Kiwanis 
9. Fireman's
10. Kimberly
11. North Woods
12. Lions Park East
13. Tartan Park- We call it the "Pirate Park" it's always a huge hit with the boys 
14. North/Community Playground 
15. South
16. VFW
17. Elks
18. Lions Park West
19. Rolling Meadows- Kids call it the "Easy Park" and it has no slide 
20. Driftriders
21. West Elementary
22. Junior Community Women
23. St. A's

We made a lot progress on my goal to visit all of the playground parks this summer. We still have five parks to visit in fall, but there is still time in 2013.

We went to Riverside Jaycee Park with our friends for a picnic. It's a really good park with a lot of great equipment, plus as the name implies it's right along the river and the Luce Line Bike trail that goes through our little town. The boys favorite thing seems to be the slide made of rolly bars.

Shady Ridge Park is a cute little park tucked away in the middle of a neighborhood. You kind of feel like you are intruding on the neighborhood. Adam actually thought we were playing on private property. It's pretty much a climb up, slide down and repeat kind of park. I did enjoy the massive amount of shade from the trees the hot night we played there.

Down the street from Shady Ridge is the Women's Club Park. This park is awesome. Two play structures lots of slides and lots of literal bells and not literal whistles. Adam loved making music with the bell piano thing and singing along. 

Masonic/West River Park is where I made the mistake of posting the following picture on instagram and facebook with the caption,"My little climber. Bets have been made that he will be the first cousin to break a bone." Never ever joke about a child hurting themselves, because you will feel like it is your fault if it comes true. This is a great park with a great view of the river and of course we love that it is part of the Riversong festival grounds. Beware that the purple dinosaur does bite.

Tartan Park- or the Pirate Park as we call it. It's the perfect park for toddlers, low to the ground with lots of walls to prevent falling. Adam is getting to be almost to old, but I think the fact that it is shaped like a Pirate Ship keeps him interested. It was the perfect park to bring Peg Leg Eli with his bright green cast and then make him walk the plank.

Junior Community Women's Park is a little park near the high school. Any park with a motorcycle gets Eli's vote and all of the equipment was low to the ground, so again it was a great park to bring a two year old with a broken leg. I didn't realize when I started the Hutch Park Tour that it was going to end up having a broken leg safety score factored in. 

Lion's Park East is just down the street, but a little out of the way of the boys daycare facility. The lion was a motorcycle, the swings were to small for a mom to sit on and I didn't like how close it was to highway 7. Not much else to review, but the boys didn't want to leave anyway.

Lion's Park West is over by Sara's house that we share a CSA (community supported agricultural- we share a box of veggies every week). It has a little bit more equipment than it's East counterpart, but not much more. We each ate a fresh carrot while we played!

According to my list I have 5 parks left for the boys to play on and me to instagram. I know what I'll be doing this weekend!