Gene Green Park Spray Park
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season

Where: 6500 East Sam Houston Pkwy N., Houston, Texas
Season: typically open in warm months (check before visiting)
Hours: typically daylight hours
Cost: free
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A Harris County park on the east Beltway with a kiddie spray park, plus a skate park and walking trails elsewhere on the grounds.
When to go. Peak summer highs in Houston average 93°F. Mornings and late afternoons are far more comfortable than the middle of the day, and shade is worth planning around.
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 21 within 15. These are the ones worth the drive — ranked by shade, toilets and cost first, then by how close they are: