Festival Fields Park Splash Pad
✓ Last confirmed for the 2023 season
Where: 101 E Lower Buckeye Rd, Avondale, Arizona
Season: Daily through early September, then fall weekends through October 31
Hours: 8 a.m.-8 p.m. daily in summer; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. fall weekends
Cost: free
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Renovated in 2020, Avondale's Festival Fields splash pad features dumping buckets, a water-style merry-go-round, a spray tunnel, floor geysers and two shade canopies. The surrounding park adds a fishing pond, skate park and pickleball courts.
What's on site. OpenStreetMap maps toilets on site, playground alongside, parking at this location.
When to go. Peak summer highs in Avondale average 106°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.
How long it's open. Roughly 9 weeks a year, from September to October. 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 are 0 other pads within 5 miles and 8 within 15. These are the ones worth the drive — ranked by shade, toilets and cost first, then by how close they are: