Explore Playground & Splash Pad (Hoover Met Complex)
✓ Last confirmed for the 2026 season
Where: 5508 Stadium Trace Parkway, Hoover, Alabama
Season: May 15 – September 15
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 9:00 AM–7:00 PM; closed Mondays for cleaning and maintenance
Cost: free
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This 7,000-square-foot splash pad sits beside a 15,000-square-foot inclusive playground built around the seven principles of inclusive design, with separate zones for ages 2–5 and 5–12. It also offers an adult changing room, sensory-friendly calm-down pods, and shade structures, and the chlorinated water is recirculated through filtration.
What's on site. OpenStreetMap maps parking at this location. No public toilets are mapped here — worth knowing before you commit to an afternoon.
When to go. Peak summer highs in Hoover average 91°F. Mornings and late afternoons are far more comfortable than the middle of the day, and shade is worth planning around.
How long it's open. Roughly 17 weeks a year, from May to September. Seasons shift year to year and municipal pads often close early for maintenance, so check before a long drive.
If this one's closed or packed
Splash pads close for maintenance, run short seasons and fill up on hot weekends. There is 1 other pad within 5 miles and 7 within 15. These are the ones worth the drive — ranked by shade, toilets and cost first, then by how close they are: