Woodland Park

Nice park. Pretty well maintained. Great for walking around, playing sports, fishing, and for kids to play. There is plenty of parking available throughout the park. There are several pavillions with picnic tables and grills. If i lived a little closer, i would love to come here more often for the uses that i just mentioned; however, this park for me is a disc golf destination.
There is a pretty nice 18 hole course weaving around this park. Of a medium-​ish difficulty. Lots of trees and some water hazards. There is a league that operates here on Wednesday evenings that is a great way to make friends, earn some new discs, and hone your skills.
The last time i played a round of disc golf here was in May of 2015. The tee boxes are in need of work. Idk if i’d say they need it badly, but there was standing water on some, and others were becoming overgrown with weeds. I hope that this improves before the next time I come here.
Due to all of the water in this park, it gets exceptionally muggy and full of mosquitos in the summer months. Don’t forget your bug spray.

Great little park with several playgrounds for the kids. They also allow fishing in the «lake» and have ducks/​geese running about. Don’t forget to stop at the Aldi’s on the corner to get a loaf of bread to feed them from the bridge if you want.

I am biased because this is the park I played in when I was a kid (ages 7 – 13). But now… several years later… okay a couple of decades later… or 3 or 4! I had the chance to walk through the park again. I only had 6 hours in the St. Louis area before I continued my business trip west, but seeing the place of my fondest childhood memories was a must do. I was not disappointed. The park is even nicer than I remember. It has everything. Softball and little league baseball fields, areas for skateboarding and bike riding, several playgrounds for little children, ponds complete with fish, ducks, geese, and swans and little nuances that for a kid are pure gems. There is a little amphitheater that is great to play games around. Wooden steps climbing the side of a hill. I still remember running up those steps as a kid, thinking they were so big! Rolling hills to run up and down. Beautiful trees of every kind (my favorite is still there, a majestic Bald Cypress along the bank of a pond with its root knobs sticking up out of the water). There are areas of the park that bask in the warm Midwest sun while other areas stay buried deep in the shade all day. Because of the terrain, there are many little alcoves in the park where it is easy to spend a quiet afternoon. There are also 3 or 4 picnic table areas with public grills available. I was so lucky to come here on a gorgeous 60 °F morning full of sunshine. It was a fantastic way to start the day. Collinsville is a town lost in time. The population was 19 000 in 1970 and is 26 000 today, so it isn’t growing much. Some business have been around for 50 years or more. Main Street looks like something out of the 50s. It is a town where a child can ride his bike anywhere and feel perfectly safe. It is a bedroom community where life is a little slower, and this park reflects that life. Check it out!