Kelso Beach — Attraction in Milton

The Kelso Cove water park is an awesome way to spend a hot summer day. A must visit.. but not for everyone, including me. 😊 First thing you have to reserve the spot online which is a little lengthy process given the details and waivers. Here, please note that participants under 9 need to have an adult over 16 with them, inside the water park. Typical swim suit isn’t mandatory but loose clothing isn’t permitted. Once you enter the Kelso Conservation area and get to the parking area, you will see the white and blue floating structure next to the Cove admission. You can check in there, get a wrist band. a life jacket. Take off your extra clothes and slippers and get to the board area. Pretty straight forward till..The lifeguard there tests you for a short swim, which is more like a floating with confidence test. Which I failed miserably. So they didn’t let me get to the structure. Although the swim to the structure is nothing! Just a few strides but I just couldn’t do it. Maybe because the water is like 16-20 ft deep and I freaked out. But there were so many people- of all ages, having so much fun. It is basically an obstacle course on water, so one needs to be fit to keep up with the challenges and all the action around. The slots are 2 hours but they ask you to leave 15 min before time for the next slot. Maybe it’s different for the last slot of the day. After the adventure on the water park, one can have a picnic, go to the beach or head back home but all in all it is a must do to beat the summer heat. The staff is great, helpful , on the move and nice. The park is amazing. Lots of parking, lots of fun. There is enough space for beach chairs and lots of seating in front. I plan to come back, after I finish my swimming for dummies classes. 😆 Highly recommend this activity this...

It’s a nice looking place but I’ll never go back 1st not enough picnic tables, then when it came to swimming there’s to much rules I understand things need to be safe but when I pay to go somewhere I expect to have fun swimming my son had a floating whale he likes to sit on and float but we can’t bring any floating things past the first rope, which is the shallow end, which does not go any higher than my knees, and Im short I’m under 5 feet so he couldn’t float, and then he had a life jacket where he likes to go in the deep end, which that also wasn’t allowed past the first rope so he couldn’t even float and swim with that so he felt unsafe to go swim and have fun so the whole time he stood in up to his belly that’s up to my knees (I’m under 5feet) so if u want to have fun and swim with anything that’s floating device or a life jacket don’t even count on it this is not the place for u I’m not the type of mother that leaves him alone I was with him the hole time and when I did brig him deeper I could still stand it was up just under my arm pits they we’re saying it was to far so he couldn’t even be in my arms that far out and they could see I was still standing did not have fun swimming at all felt like we couldn’t do...

This beach is very clean and the boardwalk is nice. Swimming on the other hand was not for us! When you read there's a lot of rules ... Feels like an understatement. Here are some of the rules we encountered. 1) swimming only inside the buoys if you are outside the buoys you must stay at knee level regardless of age . 2) floaties are only allowed in the shallow area( first line of buoys) 3) no life jackets , pool noodles or any floating device in the deep end. .... These rules were a shock to us . I truly believe this is great for younger kids or adults that want to paddle or relax in the deep end...