Saturday, June 27, 2009

Alachua Splash Park

Today my mom and I took my niece, Savannah, and Josiah to the Splash Park in Alachua that we recently learned about. Savannah took some time to warm up to the idea, but ended up having lots of fun. Afterwards we went to Conestogas for Blue Bell ice cream. Yum! Then we went to the local consignment shop where we found some good stuff. Our outing would have been perfect except that we got caught in a monsoon as we walked back to the car. There is no quick way to pack a toddler, baby, stroller, and shopping bags into a car without getting all of those things soaked along with the interior of the car. Oh well.

I know several of you have talked about checking this out, but don’t know where it is, so I figured I’d give directions. As you drive down Main Street (from 441), turn right at 146th Ave (just past the Ivy House Restaurant). Take this down to 146th Terr and turn left. You will see the park on the right. It is free and the hours are dusk till dawn or 7pm. I didn’t see the days it is open posted, so it must always be open. I figured it would be really busy since it was a Saturday, but it wasn’t too bad. We had a good time. Here is the address and phone number: 14300 NW 146th Terrace, 386-462-1610.

I included lots of pictures so you could see different parts of the splash park. And because my niece is just plain cute! By the way, the bathrooms were decent and there were picnic tables and shade.



Notice the deluge of water coming down behind her. There are buckets up above that dump the water out when they get full. Savannah did get doused by one of these and was very confused as to where the water came from. It was funny.


The water is recycled through the park, so the fact that she kept trying to drink it made me cringe. It smelled like chlorine, so I guess it was ok.

Playing with a random boy that I think was sweet on her.


4 comments:

Unknown said...

Looks like fun! Very informative, glad you found it and were able to do some investigating!

Amy and the Boys said...

That looks like so much fun! Isn't there one in town? 39th I think?

Abby and Jacob said...

Apparently there are 2 in town, but they have a nominal fee from what I hear. This one is relatively close to us and is free. (Oh, and the fact that it is close to Conestogas is a plus!)

Jodi & Mike said...

Hey Abby. I just checked out all your pictures and video. Josiah is too cute! I hope you are all doing well. I miss you tons. Hopefully I will get to meet Josiah some day soon. I hate it that we are so far apart now. Please come visit us some time. We would love to see you.