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Ravenwood Park is 5 stars on a rainy day. The big climbing structure to climb up four stories and fly down a metal slide is so cool. There is a sandpit for little kids, a merry go round, cool climbing areas. And the park is also cool – with hiking trails and biking trails we…

We learned a lot about our boys, the county and playgrounds on this tour. At each stop, we read up on the neighborhood history, checked out the real estate market, sampled local taco options when we were hungry. We learned to identify the decade the playground was built based on the features. On the way…

This playground was so cool. It has the best spider web and some fun slides and a cool swing. It is in a nice park with shade and we rode our bikes but the hill was so steep we had to get off and walk them.

The spinning slides are really fun. There is a cool spinner thing connected to monkey bars. The swings were good too. And there is a good area for little kids. We had a birthday party for papa and a celebration of the last playground on the list.

This playground was 2 stars on a cold, rainy day. But on any other day it would have been 3.5 stars. The pirate ship was very cool. Usually we pretend something is a pirate ship but here we didn’t have to pretend. And it is right on the river and so our pirate ship really…

We call this “stadium park” because it is right next to Nissan Stadium. It has fun rope fire poles and a climbing wall. The slides are really fast. The fountains are really fun in the summer. There are no swings and not a lot of other play things but it is fun to run around…

The playground is small but the climbing jungle gym with a fire-pole makes for very fast and fun races. The swings are small. “I wish there was more stuff.” – Liam It is right by a beach where you can go swimming and a big field that would be good for soccer games. The lake…

This was on the list from the city but we could not find any playground here.

This playground had the biggest swings in Davidson County. The circular swinging monkey bars were really hard and fun You can make good obstacle courses here. The park around it has a lot of fun things. There is a model plane runway and a mountain bike area and baseball fields. It is really big.

There is an old swing set has been made into a garden. The best play part was a giant pile of wood-chips we climbed up.

This playground has low slides. But it has lots of games in the walls. There is a nice field. This playground would probably be really fun for little kids.

This playground was really fun. The slides were fast and we did slide races from the top of the slide – down – around and back up to the top. There is also a good fire pole.

This playground is really good for kids who like monkey bars. The circle monkey bars were really fun and hard. It is a good playground for floor is lava. The park around the playground has a nice field and bike trail.

This playground was in a funny little park with three paths coming together. It is little but a good playground to play store.

The playground is on the top of a hill in a nice park. The playground is kind of small. There is a cool baseball stadium next to it.

The playground is really fun – fun slides good swings. The really fun part of this playground is the way airplanes fly low overhead every 4 minutes. When we heard a plane coming we would race it to the top of the hill next to the playground. And then roll down the hill.

We had a nice picnic here. It is fun for doing races. There is a big field around it and we did races from the statue to the playground.

This playground is really new. The slides are fun but not too steep or dark like some of the tunnel slides. It has lots of things to climb on and we played super heroes and spider man with a bunch of kids.

The climbing mountain bit was really good. It did not have great monkey bars and the slides were just OK.

The double slides were good for slide races and the monkey bars were good for floor-is-lava. And there was a great bike path.

This playground was small and dirty and there was a lot of trash. Almost all of the playgrounds we went to were pretty clean but this one was not. The slide was OK.

The playground is fun. It has a hollow tree that makes a fun fort. We played hide-and-seek and there were a lot of good spots to hide. And there is a nearby school playground that has a big jungle gym and a giant balance beam that kind of moves when you walk on it. It…

The splash pad is exceptionally good. The playground is pretty good but not as fun. This playground has a particularly notorious place on this tour as Liam broke his arm falling off the monkey bars shortly after this picture was taken :-(.

This playground all goes around a circle and you can climb up and down in the middle. It’s kind of fun to pretend that circle is your house or that the whole thing is a boat.

This is a BRAND new playground and everything is really cool. The slides zoom, the castle structure is a good home base. You can do a lot of obstacle courses. And it has one of those slides that kind of rolls down. And there is a really cool new basketball court right next to do.

Dudley Park is great. Bonus points for a fun statue plinth. Dudley Park playground is a better playground for little ones. And the swings are limited.

Cooks is our favorite local beach. Usually beach playgrounds are just OK but Cooks has a playground that is really fun. The side-by-side slides are fun and it has two good fire poles and really fun monkey bars. It makes a great firetruck / station. From Mom: These are old photos full of fond memories…

Fort Negley is a fun place to ride bikes and to walk on the sidewalk like it is a balance beam. Sometimes they have sheep and goats eating the grass. But there is no playground. From Papa: For the last three years we have gone to Fort Negley every New Years Day to take a…

From Liam: The rock wall climbing was really cool. It is a fun playground and we played driving at the beach.

The swings here were really good. There were a lot of kids practicing football. From Mama: It was fun to learn about this neighborhood we’d never heard of before.

It is more of a walking path / bike path than a playground. When we found the playground we liked the monkey bars.

This was a fun big playground at the top of a hill. It is a good playground for tag. There were two dogs here that were so much fun to play with that it made the playground even better. Seven Oaks is a big park! We had no idea it was there. There was a…

This is not a big playground but it was fun for being so little. Not many swings and the slides were little. It would probably be really good for little kids. There was a picnic area.

Oakwood Park is awesome! It was the best obstacle course playground. It is on a hill and they made that part of the fun. We didn’t see any other playgrounds like this one anywhere else. The rope part is really hard to not fall.

This playground had a fun hamster wheel / running thing and pretty good monkey bars. It was really, really good for floor is lava. It has a good running loop around the playground that is good for foot races.

OK swings but they playground was not great. There were lots of baseball fields.

We liked climbing the statue and the spider web. The playground is best for little kids – with small slides. If you are a bigger kid, you can turn the whole park into an obstacle course or a floor is lava or shadowland game.

The playground is the best part of the Nashville Zoo. Our parents taught us the word “epic” when we went to this playground. It has slides, rope net climbing features, a zip line, a merry-go-round and a cool castle.

Charlotte park was cool. There was a big baseball field. The playground was pretty small. Liam said it was five stars because he has never met a playground he didn’t like.

“It has fun parallel bars and balance beam / monkey bar combo that is a good start for an obstacle course. And I think it would make a good international space station.” – Owen “Is that the one where there are lots of kids to play with on Saturdays?” – Liam Simple slides. Fun swings.…

It has this tunnel you climb up and also slide down but it only kind of works. Good triple slide for races. And great monkey bars!

This park was really. It had nice, wide open spaces. And a fun climbing slide. It was older but in good shape. Dada was happy there was a good port-a-potty.

It has pretty fun slides and really good monkey bars. The double slide makes for good races. There is a fun bike path around it.

Signage but no playground. 😦

Amazing metal slide. The rest of the playground is OK. Beautiful park.

The new YMCA playground in North Nashville was awesome. It was the playground we ask our parents to go back to the most. The main castle for the big kids is a great place to play castle. The little kid play-space is cool even for bigger kids and the adult obstacle course is the best…

We This playground is in a kind of circle which makes for good obstacle course races. The big fence for the baseball field is its own play feature. Nothing particularly stand-out about the playground but it is a nice place to play.

We went to Hartman Park on the first day it opened. There was an orange fence still wrapped around it. We had a lot of fun at Hartman park playing tag with five other families. Hartman Park has really steep slides and great climbing / obstacle course features. It is one of the new blue…

The one. The only. Dragon Park. It has a cool tunnel through a rock, a wooden platform that makes an excellent pirate ship and it is a great playground for tag. The seesaw has some nice bounce and there are many steering wheels. No big slides and the swings are pretty low and squeaky. Otherwise,…

We went with our friend Mattie and it was so fun. It had a zipline and it is really colorful. It had sea monsters and lots of fun features. it feels brand new with cool flooring and it is a playground that is designed to be something all kids can play in.

The playground started at 2 but the monkey bars gave it an extra half start. It is probably 4 stars in the summer with the splash pad. The park around the playground is really beautiful. And there is a really big Magnolia tree. Dada was happy they had a good port-a-pottie.

From Dad: Location, location, location. This is a fantastic playground with excellent picnic tables. Solid playscape features with some very fun spring riders. The play area makes an excellent hospital. It does not have swings or big slides but it has fantastic views of Downtown Nashville. Perhaps our favorite spot for dinner-picnic-in-the summer.

This playground has nice shade. We liked playing ‘don’t touch the ground’ with a few other kids. The floor could use some repairs. Mama and Dada liked it because they could go for a nice walk in the park while we played on the playground.

We liked this park a lot because of the secret passage to a friend’s house nearby. It is a good playground with climbing slides. Bonus points for the port-a-potty.

We call this Train Park because you can always see fun trains and usually the drivers will toot their horn at you if you wave. We like this playground so much because we have a whole obstacle course route from the slides, over the climbing area, up the spider-web mountain and back down to the…

This playground must have been awesome when it was first built. It has huge slides, fun climbing structure. The equipment needs a good scrub but its slides are still really fun and, even on a hot day, we had a lot of fun. And Cedar Hill park is huge. We tried to find a geo-cache…

We were trying to get to Hamilton Park and ended up at a Hamilton school and it turned out to be one of our favorite play-times. Dada calls this playground “old-school.” It has a jungle gym features with multiple play spaces. We played hospital and safari on the jungle gym.

We really liked the half-circle jungle gym. Our cousin chased us across it. The playground is OK – not many big slides or anything but we had fun.

We really liked this playground – especially the part that was meant for grown ups to do pull ups. The big ball spider web is really fun too. And there is a tunnel. Cornelia Fort is amazing and a fun place to bike.

The red jeep at this playground has always been fun. As we grew up we have gotten braver about climbing and even jumping from the big concrete tunnels. The playground has OK slides. The park around it is fun and has outdoor movies and lots of tennis courts.

Woodmont park is really fun. It has some climbing features we didn’t find at any other playground in Davidson County. It has a few sections and they are all really fun. Another park where Mama and Dada can go for a walk while we play!

The slides are so big – three stories high. And the merry-go-round is ridiculously fun, and a little scary. And there is a really fun log structure you can climb. We liked the old wooden castle Red Caboose. But the new playground is great too.

England park was fun. It has a small kind of climbing wall to get up to the slide that was fun. There is a stream near the playground that we also played in.

We played squirrels and eagles. Climbing the mountains was really fun. Going down was scary. The swings are like tree swings and there are a lot of them and they are really fun.

The pirate ship is fun but the obstacle course makes it better. It does not have many slides but there are so many obstacles and seesaws so you don’t really miss them. The park has disc golf.

From Dad: As residents of 12S, Sevier Park is our go-to. While we developed appreciation for many other playgrounds, it stood up to the test of competition. The slides are great, the monkey bars are really hard, the swings are super fun, if busy. And the little kids space is really well done. The shade…

From Mom: A great community space with a really special community garden stewarded by the Edgehill residents association, a great field that is often used for practice and space honoring artist William Edmondson. The playground is small and does not have swings or big slides but it has several unique playground features including the best…

We rated 72 playgrounds. We based our rating just on the playground part – not what was around it, but we made notes about what around it was cool. Here is the list in order of stars. Click on the playground name to see photos and more about each playground: 6 stars: YMCA North Nashville…

The furthest northern playground on the tour. Solid playground design, cool park around it, great picnic tables, spacey park decor. Limited slides and swings. Very clean and well maintained. Pin: https://goo.gl/maps/xRofSxyBamLCFeL7A

Lock 2 is out there and pretty interesting to get to. It stands out for its palm trees and pirate ship play potential and icebergs (we think?). It is a very fun setting. The German’s have a saying: There is no bad weather only bad clothing. The day we tried Lock 2 Park testing this…

The trees in Reservoir Park are majestic. The history and physics of the Reservoir are fascinating. The playground is underwhelming. The swings have a great view. The play equipments is ready for an upgrade.

coming soon…