Colchester Parks and Recreation — Attraction in Colchester

The playground /splash pad are great, but avoid it like the plague when there is the rec summer camp going on. The camp counselors do literally nothing to keep kids in line. My 3 and 5 year old had to sit and wait for a group of teenagers to move off of a playscape designed for 2-5 year olds in order to use the slide. When I spoke to the main counselor, he was rude and obnoxious, as if it was an inconvenience to have to do his job. Well behaved kids had to help me ask the not-so-well-behaved kids to stop being jerks to little kids who were playing. I would recommend waiting until late afternoon to go...

This was a great to go to for years with my kids. Great playground and splash pad. Plus very spacious and even a skate park. However, we went there a few days ago and to our suprise the playground had been taken down and replaced by a few jungle gyms, the skate park was completely taken down as well and the splash pad was closed and it looked for a little while. What a complete disappointment! My kids were completely shocked. Lots of great memories here. Its just saddening to see...

When they “updated” the park they ripped out everything my kids actually enjoyed playing with and replaced it with rickety ropes courses. I have three kids and only one of them can use anything. There is one slide and even that you have to climb yet another dangerous rope contraption. One of the big ones Sways if you have 2 children on it. Absolutely ridiculous one of the reasons we moved to Colchester was the great park we could walk to from our house and now there is no...