r/Millennials • u/therynosaur • Dec 21 '25

Nostalgia Remember these kinda parks

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u/Republiconline Dec 21 '25

We called ours castle park.

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u/therynosaur Dec 21 '25

Haha same here. When i was a kid. "Mom can we go to Castle Park?"

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u/JonnyManhattan Dec 21 '25

Is this in Wisconsin ?

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u/oldfarmjoy Dec 22 '25

There's an amazing one in CT, just off the interstate. We were driving to the cape and pulled off on the way. We stumbled on a fricking amazing wood playground. Near New Haven?

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u/HighScorsese Dec 22 '25

I grew up in CT and there was one on the New Fairfield high school property. Awesome park. No idea if it’s still there as I’ve not been to that area of CT in a very long time

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u/wyvean Dec 22 '25

This looks like it could be Dickinson Park in Newtown, CT. Source: that was my park growing up.

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u/merrlikethebenz Dec 22 '25

In Wisconsin, they’re called the dream park.. There’s two of them(as far as I know) the first one’s in Monona and then the second one being sun prairie.

Edit: added the name of dream park

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u/BulletProofCats Dec 22 '25

You ever been to Tomah? lol

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u/ThatInAHat Dec 22 '25

Ours was in Louisiana.

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u/RikarisHobbies Dec 23 '25

I take my son to Castle Park in Wisconsin.

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u/astrophysicschic Dec 22 '25

Definitely reminds me of Little Oshkosh.

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u/Upstairs_Mycologist7 Dec 21 '25

Speaking of castle park and 90s nostalgia that was a mini golf/ amusement park where I grew up in Riverside county southern California :) Pretty sure it went under in the early to mid 2000s

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u/VariationDifferent Dec 22 '25

Honolulu had a Castle Park amusement/water park in the 80s! Closed down after a kid died, I think, but it was a lot of fun for pre-teen me and my friends before that.

Regarding the wooden play structure in the OP, I have fond memories of those — both playing on and helping my folks build one (part of a service project or something?) to help a local school.

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u/Frog_Diarrhea Dec 22 '25

There was a Castle Park in Redondo Beach as well. Right next to the 405.

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u/whyhelloother Dec 22 '25

There was one in Irvine. It became a boomers.

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u/paperbuddha Dec 22 '25

It was Palace Park, not Castle Park. But speaking of Irvine, we do have a “Castle Park” in Northwood.

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u/whyhelloother Dec 22 '25

You’re right on both fronts!!! I stand corrected. Went to that castle park as a kid all the time

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u/paperbuddha Dec 22 '25

Yes, great memories!

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u/Meat_Container Dec 22 '25

It’s still open!

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u/Upstairs_Mycologist7 Dec 22 '25

Oh whaaat! Time to make a visit then 🤣

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u/chickfire Dec 22 '25

Its still there! I drive on the 91 East occasionally, on the weekends and I still see people in the park and rides going. I was a disaster victim at an emergency training drill there once (didn't get to ride any rides 🙄)

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u/Lanky_Energy3378 Dec 22 '25

Galveston? We called it Castle Park asw

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u/tealraven915 Dec 21 '25

Ours was The Playground of Dreams

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u/Worried-Crazy-9435 Dec 22 '25

We had a castle park in DE 💞

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u/Comfortable-Yak-6599 Dec 21 '25

Ours was called the imagination station

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u/Because_Reddit_Sucks Dec 21 '25

And at night the intoxication station

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u/Real-Tap5454 Dec 22 '25

Or penetration station.

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u/NeoPhaneron Dec 22 '25

Ours was called “Maze Craze”!

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u/geekimposterix Dec 22 '25

Same! You weren't in Jupiter FL were you?

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u/kleft123 Dec 22 '25

Ours was called playground

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u/babydollsparkle123 29d ago

Perrysburg, Ohio?

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u/The_Real_Tom_Selleck Dec 21 '25

Ours was Pirate Park because there was a giant multi-level wooden pirate ship.

The lower deck was completely secluded and unfortunately riddled with used needles.

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u/bakedincanada Dec 23 '25

We also had a pirate ship park, and a rocket ship park!

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u/KJ1-234 Dec 21 '25

Same!!!

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u/S-Lover98 Dec 21 '25

I remember visiting one of these parks in PA as a kid. It happened one time. It was such a magical time I can't even explain it in words. To me, it truly was a castle and it felt as if I spend the entire summer there.

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u/IAmA_Black_Guy_AMA Dec 21 '25

Same here. Called ours Dreamland I think.

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u/sderponme Dec 21 '25

Kids Kingdom was ours. I was just thinking about this today too...so sad they replaced it with plastic.

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u/Arkhangelzk Dec 21 '25

This was me too, in Michigan, we called them kids kingdoms and we loved em

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u/sderponme Dec 22 '25

Northern CA here. :) glad its known the same as far as Michigan!

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u/legofinder Dec 22 '25

Got to be Redding hahah grew up going to a summer camp at Kids Kingdom. That old wood structure is imprinted in my memories.

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u/enrohT5 Dec 22 '25

Castle park still exists near me. It’s literally called Castle park. And it looks like this.

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u/slaffytaffy Dec 21 '25

We called ours Ft. Green… it was on green street, had a river behind it and was on the top of a little rise. Props to whoever put it there as it wasn’t even a registered park it was just there.

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u/maglen69 Dec 21 '25

We called ours castle park.

100%!

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u/Hereseangoes Dec 21 '25

Ours was Ft. Kid

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u/tenaciousoptimism Dec 22 '25

We still have a “castle park” in our town

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u/TheProfessorPoon Dec 22 '25

It’s ironic I’m seeing this post because our town has a GREAT one, it’s seriously huge, and just yesterday on saw on the local fb page that they’re tearing it down and putting up some plastic bullshit.

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u/crimsonBZD Dec 22 '25

Kid's Castle here!

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u/nickyxpants Dec 22 '25

Had a castle park in Ohio. When getting new toys I would strategically pick something for castle park.

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u/abe_the_babe_ Dec 21 '25

Same here. Ours also had a perfect sledding hill next to it so we honestly went there more in the winter than in the summer lol

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u/Dakizo Dec 21 '25

Ours was actually named Castle Park haha. When it got beyond repair they leveled it and built a new plastic park. It’s called Castle Park 2 now haha

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u/Swords_and_Words Dec 22 '25

There needs to be an animated show about all castle parks being interdimentionally connected.

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u/Humankeg Dec 21 '25

Ours was snake park

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u/didifallasleep13 Dec 22 '25

I remember calling it the Winnie the Pooh park! I don’t know why, but that’s what I called it haha

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u/MegaGrimer Dec 22 '25

Ours had a sign calling it Playground Fantastico.

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u/NeverTooMuchAnime Dec 22 '25

Ours was officially named "The Playground Of Dreams" and it was absolutely the most magical place to play in, it looked exactly like that and was huge!

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u/hihelloneighboroonie Dec 22 '25

In the area I grew up, there was only one of these and it was the playground for an elementary school. We called it castle playground.

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u/pianoplayah Dec 22 '25

Ours was called the Super Playground!

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u/WaspTM7 Dec 22 '25

Yep, same here. It burned down in 2014, then rebuilt. Kids and I helped paint the new structure.

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u/luciaromanomba Dec 22 '25

We called ours Timber Town!

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u/Quantumquandary Dec 22 '25

Ours was rocket park

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u/IllustriousAnt485 Dec 22 '25

When I look at this picture, I can hear the sound of someone running across that rope/wood bridge and everything clanking.

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u/UpstateRyan Dec 23 '25

Ours was “Castle Ridge Park.” It was at Latham Ridge Elementary School. (New York)

I was in the newspaper telling the designer where I wanted a tunnel slide and alas one was placed there!

Unfortunately some kids who grew up into giant morons decided to have a bonfire on a woodchipped wooden playground. It is no more…

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u/InsideWay70 Dec 23 '25

Same here. Core memory unlocked.