With summer all but officially here, it’s time for children to get outside and enjoy Moose Jaw’s many spray parks and splash pads.
Playgrounds with water venues attached are a great way to cool down from the heat while letting kids run off all the energy they’ve built up. Adventurous parents might even decide to run under one of the water streams themselves.
Moose Jaw has five spray parks and two paddling pools that opened for the season on June 1 and close Aug. 31.
The spray parks can be found at:
- 1996 Summer Games Playground at 16th Avenue Southwest
- Crescent Park spray park on the 200 block of Fairford Street East
- Co-op Community Spray Park at the corner of Ninth Avenue Northeast and Ominica Street East; this park is wheelchair accessible
- Elgin Park on the 1000 block of Eighth Avenue Northwest; this park is wheelchair accessible
- Kinsmen West Park Spray Park on Meier Drive
The paddling pools can be found at:
- Optimist Park at the corner of Fifth Avenue Southwest and Lillooet Street
- Park Hill Park at the corner of 10th Avenue Southwest and Duffield Street West
If spray parks and paddling pools aren’t your things, then Moose Jaw also has many beautiful green spaces where residents and visitors can enjoy the great outdoors and commune with nature, take a walk or see wildlife.
The community’s most notable green space is Crescent Park, located in the heart of the city’s downtown. The park’s serene beauty and walking paths are a great attraction. It includes a splash park, playground, the Phyllis Dewar Outdoor Pool, tennis courts and lawn bowling courts.
Crescent Park is also home to the Moose Jaw Public Library and the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery.
There are also many neighbourhood parks throughout the community, which include playground equipment to keep kids of all ages busy. Some parks also feature skating rinks in the winter.
Wakamow Valley is in the city’s river valley area. You will find picnic areas, canoes and kayaks to rent, a skating oval, playgrounds, and more than 20 kilometres worth of trails to ensure residents and tourists enjoy the outdoors all year round.
Other types of parks also offer fun activities in the community.
For example, there is the Bike Skills Park on the 1200 block of High Street West adjacent to the Yara Centre and the skateboard park on Macdonald Street just off Ninth Avenue Northwest and across from the Kinsmen Sportsplex.
All users must wear a helmet at the Bike Skills Park since it is unsupervised, while it closes each day at dusk. Meanwhile, the lights at the skateboard park are on from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. each day. That park is also unsupervised, so parents should accompany children under 10.
