Twin Bridge Park is a wooden castle-style playground filled with twists, turns and secret spots! This is a low-visibility playground, because of the cool castle it can be hard to keep track of which nook and cranny your kids are adventuring through. If a constant visual is important to your little or to you, the toddler side is where you want to hang out! It is also fun for a wide range of ages. If you have school-aged kids in your crew, this is a nice, fun and different spot for them to run and play.
Twin Bridge Park Entrance
When you park in the parking lot, you will make a little trek down this hill and behind the baseball building to find the playground. Running back to the car for a water bottle is no small feat – especially if you have a tiny person walking on tiny legs – so bring everything with you!
Entrance into the fenced playground is via a stroller-friendly ramp that brings you right into the park. This is where stroller-friendliness ends. There are multiple platforms and layers to this place and no clear path. If you are going to swing the stroller into the toddler area and camp out, that is doable. But trying to follow around a kiddo through the main play area with a baby in the stroller is not going to be a good time.
The Grown-Ups Club House
Right by the entrance ramp is this little bleacher area where grown-ups can sit. If your kiddos are good to go, you can chill here and as long as you keep an eye on the exit ramp, you can know your kid is in there somewhere.
Toddler Playground
I am a big fan of the toddler side of this playground. There are lots of crawl-able steps for them to navigate, different situations like the bridge and tunnel to figure out and even little-sized monkey bars. I watched a crawler make her way up to the slide and then she gave it a hard NOPE and made her way backwards all the way back down. All by herself. Love to see it!
This side is where you will also find the bucket swings and accessible swings. It is easy to survey most of the space if you look over from the edge of the Grown-Ups Clubhouse and it is separate enough from the main area that big kids aren’t running through during their play.
Main Play Area
This castle is an engineering marvel. I am not strong in spatial awareness/engineering/numbers and trying to think about the design/building process of this giant just breaks my brain. It is a very good playground for advanced level hide-and-seek!
There are lots of bridges, tunnels, corridors, steps and towers all throughout. There are tires, ropes and climbing walls to climb.
On the far side of the castle is the slides and swings. If you are in that funny spot where one kid swings in a bucket swing and another wants to be pushed on a typical swing, you can’t do those at the same time at this playground.
As I’ve said, the castle is full of different twists and turns on multiple levels. Whenever I go adventuring in, I just assume I have no idea where I am going to end up. Maybe kids who grow up playing here will end up having better navigational skills than I do!
Twin Bridge Park Trails
The playground is tucked up against a forest and there is a nice walking trail that brings you along the beautiful Baboosic Brook. You can access the trail from up by the parking lot or behind the playground space.
The main trail is wide and established. It is pretty stroller-friendly but I would recommend bringing a jogging stroller with air tires and using the access path from the playground not the parking lot.
A Talking Trail
On this trail, it is fairly short & sweet and you are walking along the brook for the majority of the path. This seems like a good place to keep in your back pocket for when you need that quick hit of nature to turn around a rough day. The relaxing walk is a nice place to talk and connect with your 4 year old or your 14 year old. Sometimes when everyone just has to walk forward (and not look at each other) with waterfall noises by their side, things get better!
There are a few spots along the way with benches or railings to stop and watch the water.
