Cold Spring Tiny Tots Park — Attraction in Town of Philipstown

This park is built on the original site of the Haldane Central School.

If you are a toddler, when you come here you will think you are in TOY HEAVEN ! This is a repository for toys of all shapes and kinds! There are more toys that have wheels, than you could shake a stick at.

In 1997, the park was a center of local controversy, as the Village of Cold Spring, wanted to cut all the trees near the park down, their justification was a recomdation from their Insurance company. The Village refused to disclose the documents, and a lawsuit ensued. At that time, Adolf Philips was mayor.

In the Summer of 2018 the park got a new fence.

The funding for the park came from The Philipstown Community Council,in 1991, which was led by the late Mrs. Edith Nelson. I knew Mrs. Nelson well, as I worked for her husband, the late Professor Glenn C. Nelson for many years, when I...

This park is great for little kids because it's fully enclosed, so your toddler won't wander off indiscriminately into the wild yonder as mine tends to do. There are always a hundred discarded iterations of tricycle and the like here, which will probably be fun for my son in a few years, though now he mostly just enjoys pushing them around. There are four baby swings and two regular-sized swings, which is a good distribution for me, the toddler dad. I highly recommend it, it's a good playground...

This is a really cute park! I took my (then 2 1/2 year old) son over the summer after getting ice cream nearby. I appreciate that the park is enclosed with gated access, has ample trees for shade, and plenty of benches. It has a lot of equipment for the kids to use, several structures to climb on, and plenty of things for kids to play with. There's a board path around the play area so kids can use the provided bikes/ride ons. Overall, it's a really nice park with a...