This is a terrific clean city park! Free and open to the public, it features the«Tomato Splash Pad», a wonderful fenced water play area for children with squirting devices of several kinds centered around a giant tipping tomato that fills with water. We spent several hours here, our child loving playing with all the different devices and the array of young children that came through. Leamington is very multicultural and the visitors reflected that in a really wonderful way. Most of the children there were in the 1 — 7 year-old range, with a few well-behaved teenagers wandering through for a quick soaking from the tomato. The rest of the park includes an excellent play structure with a deeply cool teeter-totter device(three sections moving opposite to each other — go check it out!), swings, and lots of picnic tables up in among beautiful old trees. There is plenty of open grass for playing, too. The park includes a nice section of waterfront with a sandy beach along Lake Erie. Unfortunately, recent rains appeared to have overloaded local sewage treatment facilities and the beach was closed to swimming due to E. Coli contamination and smelled terrible. It’s separated from the rest of the park by a parking area and grassy section, so the beach problems did not affect the rest of the park in the slightest. Cheers to Leamington for providing such a delightful public park to its residents! We enjoyed it as much as they clearly do.
