North Cary Park

One of our favorite parks in the areas. Huge slides, climbing rocks, greenways, picnic shelter and lots of open spaces and fields too.

This is an awesome park for kids. They have two slides with lots of playground equipment. There are bathrooms right next to the playgrounds which is a plus. The sand volleyball courts are some of the best in the area. I always see people playing basketball and soccer as well. The park is a great place for the family. There’s even a boulder for rock climbing. The area that surrounds it is matted for safety.

Very nice and great outdoor feel for the kids

My six-​year-​old son and I discovered North Cary Park this spring while our favorite playground at Marla Dorrel Park has been closed for refurbishment.
North Cary Park includes a playground, picnic shelter, sand volleyball courts, basketball and tennis courts, soccer fields, paved walking trails that connect to greenways, and a couple of artificial climbing boulders.
The playgrounds are extensive in area, though not in terms of climbing and other play structures. There is one pretty standard monkey bar type set up, a large sandbox with a digger, a small dollhouse, two slides built into hillsides, and some swings. The play areas are nicely spaced, and have benches around the perimeter. There is some shade around the perimeter, but the main play areas are largely exposed to the sun.
The climbing boulders are the first of this kind I have seen. They are metal sculptures covered with a concrete paste, about 9′ or 10′ tall. There are a variety of holds, and each face of the «rocks» is at a different angle to vertical. They are surrounded by a cushy rubber mat so climbing is relatively safe.
We have gone half a dozen times, mostly after school, but once or twice during the day on weekends, and there are usually nice kids around to play with, plus plenty of people using the other facilities. The parking lot is large, but still comes close to capacity when the soccer leagues are playing on Saturdays. An ice cream truck has cruised the parking lot several times when we have been there.
For reasons unknown to me, my GPS, a Garmin, sends me about a mile down the road when I enter this address, which I confirmed against the sign at the entrance. I saved the parking lot as GPS coordinates to solve the problem.
All in all a great park. The climbing boulders are very cool. I would probably give North Cary five stars, if we weren’t so in love with Marla Dorrel’s playgrounds. Families with older kids and adults looking for a nice place to walk might well give it five stars.