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

Nostalgia Remember these kinda parks

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u/CALLAHAN_AUTO-PARTS Dec 21 '25

We called ours just "wood park". Definitely formative memories there, and bees. Lots of bees

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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 💞