Village Green Park — Attraction in Perry Township

This park is my kids' favorite and SO CLOSE to being a five star park except for a few significant flaws that make it unnecessarily frustrating. Both my kids and I love a good splash pad/playground combination, and this splash pad is the best we've found in the area -- there are actually enough features to keep them relatively occupied and get them soaking wet.

The layout of the playground and splash pad is awful for visibility and containing small children, however. The only immediate access to the playground from the splash pad is a bridge straight onto the jungle gym -- with two young, fast children, it's obnoxious to have to either climb on the playset itself when they go darting back and forth to watch them, or climb through the bushes, or walk ALL the way around and lose a lot of visibility of both play areas. It's a terrible setup for parents of young kids that need closer supervision.

It could be remedied super easily by simply removing one or two bushes and adding access (stairs and a ramp) into the playground area. It's such a poor design choice in what is otherwise a great park.

The bathrooms are the other issue -- there are literally signs up at the splash pad telling parents to take their kids to the bathroom so they don't poop in the water, but the bathrooms are a significant distance from the play area and are very small for the amount of people that this park regularly gets.

It's a potentially GREAT park and by far a favorite, but as a parent of multiple kids, things make it so needlessly...

I want to specifically brag about the Healthy Kids Running Series that our daughter has participated in for a few years now. The race series takes place in the Village Green Park in Powell. The park itself is clean and safe and has a fun play structure for kids , but the race series is soooo good too. The directors could not be more positive, inclusive or energetic. The volunteers are high school kids from Olentangy Schools National Honor Society and they are so courteous and complimentary and positive role models to the kids running! What a fantastic program for kids, from toddler thru elementary school. I can't recommend them enough. Their website is healthykidsrunningseries.org and it's the Powell Ohio location at Village Green Park. They do a Spring and a Fall series....come...

Nice little park in downtown Powell. Small little playgroup that is best for kids 6 and under. The splash pad is nice but small and probably also best for younger kids. The splash pad is free of charge.

There is plenty of room to sit in multiple grassy areas and there is a small pond with a walking path nearby. There is a larger covered pavilion with picnic tables and a Pepsi machine. There is a water fountain between the splash pad and park and public restrooms are in the municipal building.

There's a good amount of parking and all of this is within walking distance of two ice cream places in...