City Park (Monkey Park) — Attraction in Opelika

We were looking for a natural area to spend time with our kids and grill up some steaks. This place was a perfect fit for us. There were at least 3 grill locations with several playgrounds and some amazing natural areas. There is a beautiful covered bridge and lots of photo ops by the cascading creek under it. There are also several Nature trails. We opted to go to this park instead of Chewacla State Park because it was more convenient and had no entrance fee. Chewacla wanted to charge our family $24 for entrance, and we felt that this free park ended up being a much nicer experience for our family. Highly...

Best park in Opelika! There are some sorry parks around. This is not one of them. It has everything and more, a lovely stream running through it, occasional train rides, old school metal slides high up for big kids as well as the newer plastic ones, lower for small kids, swings and baby swings.

There's a gazebo and a reservible pavilion. Every Tuesday night in the summer is the Summer Swing, with live music, free train rides, and burgers and dogs for sale. There are other events periodically. I've seen a petting zoo once.

No smoking allowed. Honestly, I've never seen a better...

This park is our favorite in the entire area! It’s so adorable and the train is amazing. We have been coming to Monkey Park for over a year and a half. The train had not been in service the whole time.. I believe because of Covid, but we went a couple of weeks ago and they had it going!! We absolutely love this park! I could add a zillion photos because I always take them! It’s just so...