Hap McGee Park
Hap McGee Park in Danville has everything kids could want: a
big playground, a water play area with sprinklers, and a sand pit. As a mom, I
loved the shaded picnic tables, and the clean restrooms right next to the play
area. If your family includes a dog, they can have fun too at the adjacent dog
play yard.
The water play area at Hap McGee isn’t just one or two small
spray spouts like many other playgrounds have. This area is designed to get
kids wet. Really wet. Swimsuits are necessary, in my opinion. There are big
spouts that shoot out from the ground, and tunnel sprinklers that spray a finer
mist that the kids can run through.
Right next to the fun water area is a sand pit. There is a
stationary digger that kids can use to move sand around. The favorite activity
of all the kids in the sand area as I observed, though was to bring buckets
full of water over from the sprinklers and pour it into the sand, then dig
trenches and mounds designed to create a pathway for the water to flow. Then they
would move the sand to get the water to go a different. It was a lot of fun,
and I was only watching!
The playground is farm themed, with the play structures in
the shape of barns and tractors, with silos and cows to ride on. ON the hot day
we were there, the water area was much more popular than the playground, but I
imagine that is probably a seasonal preference.
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