Thunder Junction All Abilities Park — Attraction in Saint George

We had a mixed experience during our visit. The man working at the pay station for the train was fantastic, friendly, professional, and even cracked a joke that made us laugh. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for the young man stationed at the entrance to the train ride and the older male at the park entrance. When my husband asked the man at the park entrance a simple question, he completely ignored him. As for the young man at the train ride entrance, he didn’t make eye contact, didn’t acknowledge us in any way, and spent the entire time on his phone. At first, we gave him the benefit of the doubt and didn’t think much of it. However, it became clear something was off when two of his coworkers came over and asked why he wasn’t letting anyone board, even though several of us were waiting in line. His response to them was that we wouldn’t fit on the train, which wasn’t communicated to us at all. He then opened the door to the ride without saying a single word. A coworker returned shortly after and the young man commented with attitude about us “just standing there,” to which I replied that a little communication would’ve helped, especially since that’s part of his job and there was no need for all that unnecessary attitude. We let it go and enjoyed the ride as best we could. But when the ride ended, we saw the same staff member being extremely pleasant and talkative with another family, clearly a very different energy from how he treated us. It left us with the uncomfortable impression that his behavior toward our group may have been racially motivated. If you’re a person of color, I would think twice before visiting, based on this experience. No one should feel unwelcome or ignored, especially in a place that’s supposed to be...

Amazing park. We try to find new parks to go to rather than going to the same ones, so we’ve probably visited over 100 parks in Utah at this point. We were just visiting St. George and were really excited to learn about this park (and were glad that it was free).

All Abilities parks are not common (at least not in Utah), but the three I’ve been to are in our top 5 favorite parks.

The splash pad is probably one of the best parts of this park. It is definitely larger and more exciting than a typical splash pad, as it is modeled to look like mountains/rivers and has waterfalls throughout. Very open and plenty of room.

There are many shaded areas here, a large splash pad area, and tons of play equipment spread throughout the park. The more unique thing about this park is how spread out everything is. There isn’t room for more than a few kids on each piece of equipment, but there are plenty of toys and plenty of room.

As far as areas for adults - there’s a couple of shaded picnic areas and a semi enclosed/almost indoor space that stays cooler than other parts of the park. Plenty of trees and grass.

I believe the park is totally fenced in, which is nice for families that worry about their kids wandering away from the playground. The bathrooms are nice and include family restrooms.

Much of the play equipment seems to stay cool despite being in the sun, but the same is not true of the padded ground in the play area. That area was uncomfortably hot, and I imagine it gets much hotter in the summer months.

Overall we had a lot of fun here and would recommend it to anyone passing by. Definitely one of the nicer parks in...

This place has amazing potential! You could easily be here for a half day with plenty of activities for the kids. We went on Thursday, May 25th around 8pm. There was a lot of shade offered, different areas of focus play, splash pad, picnic tables, a train (it was closed when we were there), and play activities for all ages. It was fun even for the adults to explore!! We would love to go back when construction is complete and the services are running!

I gave three stars because of the construction. I totally understand when playgrounds need maintenance and appreciate it. However, they used a single strand of caution tape to surround the maintenance area. There were a few spots where caution tape was broken, but you couldn't tell what was off limits. For example, the triceratops slide. Not the actual triceratops, but just the slide at the top had broken caution tape. The lack of safety was a big issue because my 3 year old ran over to the construction area (she was short enough to stand under the tape) and there were nails and screws sticking up from the ground right at that caution tape line. At a closer glance, we found there were large nails sticking up all over the maintenance area. More safety measures need to be taken to completely block this area to ensure no littles accidentally walk, run, or trip onto a nail. A temporary fence at the least especially since the construction area is in the middle of the park. You could get on the spinny chairs and three feet away there were nails sticking up,...