Kennedy Recreation Center — Attraction in Washington

The Kennedy Rec Center has a wonderful playground and splashpad however, I know very little about the ongoings inside the center.

The playground is split into two age appropriate areas, one for older children and one for toddlers and both have gates and locks that are not easy for the toddlers to unlock on their own. My favorite piece of equipment on the big kid area is a steering wheel powered spinning four seater piece (similar to the spinning tea cups at Disney or spinning pumpkins at county fairs), if you get on it be prepared for the neighborhood kids to spin you 'till you're sick, my toddler loves it! The little kid area has a tarp over most of the equipment, this is great because stuff here gets warm!

The equipment here gets HOT during the summer, luckily the splash pad in the big kid area is my favorite of any in the area. There are misting tunnels, sprays of water coming from the concrete, large umbrellas dripping with water- I've seen some resourceful kids use the water to cool down slides and other equipment. I would recommend wearing shoes in the splash-pad, areas that are not wet will burn the living daylights out of your feet (I learned this the hard way when my toddler wandered away).

Also a good multi use park, sometimes the bathrooms are available. And a shaded picnic area between the big and little kid parks is a good place to hide from the rain or have a birthday party. And it's close to Dolci Gelatti.

I've never had any issues with creepy people or drug pushers but I've always come...

Days before visiting Washington D.C., I searched on google for a playground in D.C. to take my kids to. Google gave me this playground. I carefully looked at the rating which is 4.6 stars out of 5. I even called the place 2 days before leaving my home state in New England. Therefore, joyfully, yesterday, I took my three kids to the Kennedy Recreation Center playground around 6h pm. At the very second, I stepped in there I had butterflies in my belly. Although they were nice, there way a handful of drunk people in the kiddo area, one of them just stood up and peed in front of the kids and sat down to keep drinking, like it was the most natural things to do. I walked a little further in the playground by the swings. There, there were dead rats and mouses, some of them in an advance state of decomposition. I just grabbed my kids and rushed out of the place. I was uttermostly shocked by the unsanitary of the place. The worse, some kids, maybe from the neighborwood, were playing there next to those dead rodents quietly. As a mom, I believe every kid deserve the best of everything. They are our future! I used to trust google to provide accurate information. Apparently it is not the case. Google sent me right to a ghetto. It could have got my kids in danger. Now I learn my lesson to never trust google anymore and to quintuple check for a place when I will travel to a...

Sadly there are to many racist homeless that threaten people and there lives, that are able to float there. Not all homeless are like that. Some are good people with disadvantages who need help , yet in DC to many bad apples make it worse for all, and DC is doing a despicable job helping its better people. DC in these times is not making necessary advantages for people who truly deserve it. Instead the advantages are too often given to the terrorest like people who make things worse for everyone. This issue is also nation wide. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. A brighter future is up to us to achieve. Destroying what is good will Fail...