Whatman Park — Attraction in Maidstone

This is a beautiful park with something for children of all ages from babies to the skating teens. There are 3 separate areas to go into, tree top walks, lots of beautiful well looked after greenery and flowers around. There are lots of benches to sit down and enjoy the park and areas to sit and have a picnic or relax on the grass too. There is a bandstand there and they use that, obviously more in the summer months, but it adds to the fun of the summery park experience for sure. There are also little sentimental pieces around the park that you can find like the row of tiles with children's handprints/ footprints in them, or a metal ring ornamental design piece with a short poem written on each spiral piece that you can read as you walk through it. If you havent been here yet this is definitely the place to try when the sun is shining, you'll be making plans to go back again as soon as you're leaving I'm...

Pokemon Go Heaven!

A stupid amount of stops for players including 2 bundles of 3 to sit on.

Whatman park is a lovely park by the river. There are many activities including a newly refurbished skate park. The park for the kids is pretty cool and set on 3 levels with slides connecting and a big tyre zip line at the top.

If the kids are old enough to run off on their own there is also a cool treetop run behind the park.

Keep an eye out for events as there is a small outside area for shows.

Toilets on site are about a 5/10 they get the job done but a little dirty.

Only downside is the parking. If you park at Whatman you only get half hour. No more fullstop! I myself found it better to park in Maidstone and take the 10 min walk down and then that way had aslong as I wanted...

This is a great park to have a stroll around in or take your children to, so that they can enjoy the cycling paths, Tree Top boardwalk, the adventure play area(s) and skate/BMX ramps and half pipes. There are lots of open spaces which are ideal for a picnic or just relaxing. The only downsides are that parking is not very good as you have to park near the Gallagher Football Stadium and walk a bit, although it is along the river so it's not too bad. Also, the toilets are quite a distance from the play areas, but they've put up some port-a-loos halfway between the two locations. I'm not sure if they are permanent additions or not. However, it's a lovely park with a lot of different stuff to hopefully keep...