Woodridge Park — Attraction in Cottage Grove

Here's what you need to know: Parking: Lot Age range (playground): 1+ Sidewalks: Paved to park amenities and throughout park grounds Seating: Ample seating throughout play area Bathrooms: Located in warming house Picnic tables: Enough to seat around 50 in a picnic shelter to one side of the play area Grills: NA Sports field: See website for a complete list

Take my word for it: This park has pretty much everything.

Climbing walls, ladders, nets, and domes; tall slides, short slides, bumpy slides, and curvy slides; bridges; tunnels; weather-resistant instruments; stairs; steps; seesaws; monkey bars--

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Sand play area; hammock; ramps; seated merry-go-rounds; high back swings, baby swings, and regular swings; regular zip lines and seated zip lines; and a bunch of stuff I can't even identify.

It offers more shade than the average playground and it's got synthetic flooring. Did I mentioned there are also real, flushable toilets inside a clean facility?

I might build myself a house in the woods nearby just so I'm local.

Woodridge Park is a dream. It's like the Mall of America of parks: Every type of playground equipment you could want is here. You could spend the whole day here and see only half of it. And, of course, it's ginormous.

It's so big, in fact, that I didn't even realize how busy it was until we returned to the parking lot on our way out and almost half of it (ginormous parking lot for a park, as well) was full of cars.

There are several playgrounds scattered in the play area accommodating ages from walkers to jumpers. All of my kids had a blast running around trying a little bit of everything.

One of their favorite parts was the roller slide. I think they spent a quarter of our trip riding it over and over again. They also loved playing the xylophones and scaling the outside of the huge tunnel.

We could have easily killed half a day at this park if it weren't for the merciless sun and humidity.

The park opened just this past fall and is in wonderful condition. It's definitely beloved and received plenty of traffic during our visit. At the same time, the spread of the play area keeps even busy times from feeling overwhelming

If you're looking to host a party or keep your kids entertained for a few hours, pack a hefty lunch, plenty of water, and head over to Woodridge Park. It'll...

I grew up in Cottage Grove, we all remember the old Woodridge Park, many of you grew up playing in that cravel pit.

Since being revamed this park is for the whole family weather your taking a stroll around the pond, a hike in the amazing trails.

The Playground is honestly an amusement park for your children of all ages, I have Twins myself, safe turff to run/play on, cushions almost every fall. Not to mention the size, which is important to me since we're seeing rise in covid cases for our younger folks, plenty of space to social distance or plan just throw a blanket down for a picnic 😀

I'm surprised theirs no imission fee, what are you waiting for? Bring the whole family 👪Come on down to Woodridge Park Located off highway 61 off 90th Street,...

This is a fantastic park for kids. Older and younger, they have something for everyone. There's multiple jungle gyms with modern ways to climb. They especially like the climbing wall that twists. There is no sand or tire pieces or wood chips underneath the jungle gyms; it's a very nice spongy floor that's comfortable. One unique thing is the metal zip lines that run smoothly and had fun features four kids. They didn't even get stuck like on other playgrounds!

Thankfully, there's bathrooms attached to the community building on the outside around the back. There's picnic tables in shade in two places and it was very pleasant to sit there while the kids played.

This playground is even fun...