Bartlesville Kiddie Park — Attraction in Bartlesville

The prices are nuts. $2 for cotton candy. I know it might not seem like much, but when you consider that's doubled in price and you're already hurting for money to live on. Talking 4 or 5 kids with the prices doubled on everything, it's kind of expensive. Not to mention 3 rides were not running. The trucks, the boats and the biplanes were all down. They didn't want me to use my 75th anniversary cups we had bought last year. I tried to explain that I just wanted the normal amount but in the plastic cup because the paper cups don't hold up. I told the girl, I'd pay whatever it cost. She was a kid and said, "let me go ask" so she did and it ended up being fine to use my cups. If anything, I'm saving you money on paper products by using the 75th anniversary cups. The ONLY kid I saw working that actually had a great positive and fun attitude was Tristan. He was working on the roller coaster and he was very fun and engaging with the kiddos. He was a breath of fresh air. I worked here when I was 13 and 14. I made $3/hr the 1st year and the 2nd year kids made $3.50 for ride operators. Concession stand workers always made more. The only ride my son wanted to do was the barrels but someone doesn't clean the vomit off left by someone else so we skipped that ride. It was disgusting 🫣 I'm just really disappointed in the workers here. No one was smiling. With the exception of Tristan. Even the adults were walking around like someone peed in their cheerios. Life isn't that bad and when you're working with little kids, you've gotta be able to fake it until you make it. In my opinion. Just smile and don't mean mug little kids. Or go get a different job if you're that unhappy at the KP. whoever was working the ferries wheel was just awful. It was painful to watch. This guy working this ride was so incompetent, I was scared to let my 2yr old on. However, she did great despite the 10 mins it took to get kids loaded on the ride. By the time it started, she was pretty much bored enough to want off but I made her ride the 3 mins anyway. We won't be back for a while. Even many guests were really rude. Cutting in front of us and I'm not talking about kids, these were...

Always loved going as a kid and taking my oldest (9 years now) affected he was smaller. Visited recently end of May 2022, and I was extremely disappointed with not only the fact that 3 rides were "out of order". The roller-coaster, the turtles, the big trucks. All of the ones our oldest is able to ride still. So he got to ride nothing and our 18 month old rode everything she was tall enough for minus the ferris wheel 🎡 They were also out of our favorite, cotton candy (we really love the pink!) But they were out of everything. I do love the plastic cups for sale for $5. The staff, looked like zombies. Definitely not the same happy vibe that it had back when I worked there as a kid for 2 summers, I'm very familiar with how all the rides operate. One of the boys running the swings walked up to me as I was putting my daughter in the swing and he looked at me and said "um, are you sure you want her to ride this??" I said "yes of course, she loves to swing." Then he said "well, we just had a baby puke on here and I don't want to clean up baby puke." I kind of laughed it off and said "oh she'll be okay, so l don't worry." Of course she was fine, no tears, no vomit. It was still a bit irritating that he was seemingly trying to talk me out of letting her ride. 😑 I really hope that Bartlesville city council would help get the some funding so you can get the rides working again. I'd hate to see such an amazing place from mine, my husband's (and our hopefully children's) childhood disapear or go under. It's one of the best parts of growing up in Bartlesville as a child. Then being able to take our children too and so on and so on..it's a tradition for many families that hail from and/or reside in...

Kiddie Park is tons of fun for small kids! It seems they have made an effort to keep this place pretty well maintained. My 2 small boys love it and always have a blast. I don't like that they've raised the prices of the tickets, hence why I knocked off one star.

However, I hope that in raising the prices they are dumping that money back into adding more improvements.

I see a few things that could use some serious updates. For example the whole place is covered with large flood lights up on posts to illuminate the park once it starts getting dark. I noticed all of these lights are old-school flood lights. They should really consider changing all of these out for some bright white 5000K LED flood lights. They are seriously really cheap nowadays. They have dropped dramatically in price, and they could save the park alot of money in the long-run on electricity costs. It would also be nice if there were some covered sitting areas so we could sit in the shade and eat or whatever.

All in all, really super fun place. We love going as often as we can. GREAT place for young parents who want to have some awesome entertainment...