Chesnutt Park Splash Pad
✓ Last confirmed for the 2026 season
Where: 4565 N Granite Reef Rd, Scottsdale, Arizona
Season: Runs whenever the temperature is above 70 degrees
Hours: Sunrise-8 p.m.
Cost: free
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Scottsdale's park splash pads, including Chesnutt Park, activate by push button and run from sunrise to 8 p.m. on any day warmer than 70 degrees, which in practice means much of the year. Chesnutt is a compact neighborhood park in south-central Scottsdale.
What's on site. OpenStreetMap maps toilets on site, playground alongside, parking at this location.
When to go. Peak summer highs in Scottsdale average 103°F. Go before 11am or after 5pm — midday is genuinely unsafe for small children, and the concrete around a pad runs hotter than the air.
If this one's closed or packed
Splash pads close for maintenance, run short seasons and fill up on hot weekends. There are 5 other pads within 5 miles and 26 within 15. These are the ones worth the drive — ranked by shade, toilets and cost first, then by how close they are: