Homestead Park

Childhood favorite! 4 playgrounds, great walking trails, old caboose, VERY reasonable to rent out spaces for parties, I can’t say enough great things about this place!

I used to come here when I was younger. They used to have a sick water park but not anymore. I was pretty disappointed.
Great place for birthday parties. Plenty of covered shelters, grilles, bathrooms. There’s a train kids can walk on, a basketball court. Good amount of parking. The play space by entrance is nice place to have a water gun fight.
Definitely not the park I remember as a kid. Oh well

Is still a great park but the water gun park was removed in 2014 and there was a plan to replace it but that didn’t happen.

Yet another place I know I reviewed before… It’s a great park, as a park. Five stars as a park, four as a riding place. Open spaces, trails, playgrounds, ample parking, ponds, basketball and volleyball courts, etc. A couple of railroad-​themed buildings, and a real caboose. A covered bridge. Great for kids, and for adults.
I use it for bike rides, and it connects to the heritage trail so you can explore a bit. Only problem is the trails don’t quite connect to the city park, so you have to ride on Cosgray in sections– not cool. Hilliard needs to connect things up, and take a little better care of them, for me to be a true fan of their bike paths.

This park is amazing! Iv’e been there multiple times and have never been disappointed but once when the water castle area wasn’t operating. With underground tunnels (amazing) to walk through. Its cool to go under your kids and say hi. They also have a large water castle battle zone where there are lots of squirt guns (like the ones on a sink) that you can shoot opponents with. Its a great place to take kids ages 3 – 11 for the park, and ages 7– anyone for the water tower castle battle arena. Its great, with a large range of slides, climbing, swings, towers, paths, fishing, tunnels, and FUN

This is actually a really good park. It has open areas you can play football or whatever in. I remember as a kid I loved coming here. Nice open environment too.

Great park but it has one glaring negative this summer (2013), no water for their little water park area. They need to fix their water issue and then this will be my favorite park, It is close to my house with a great kid’s play area so i frequent it often. My daughter loves the variety.
The kid’s playground: 4 toddler swings, 4 older kid swings in different areas, two decent playhouse/​slide areas again for older and younger, tunnels to walk through, sandbox (ugh, but I just don’t think I want my daughter playing an open sandbox), and some shade around the play area. Then there is a 2^nd small play area with a few swings, sand area, and train. This play area is small but a perfect area to go if the other play area is overrun by kids. The water area looks pretty nice but I haven’t been here yet when it was working
Pavilions and ponds provide nice areas for groups. There are numerous places to sit in or out of the sun. They have activities on special days and open areas for ultimate frisbee, soccer, running, or other field sports. They have a path for running and it connects to the rails & Trails that heads out to Plain City. Great park for group outings.

This is a great park in Hilliard (technically Washington Township) that has something for everyone!
The entrance is off of Cosgray Road and you can’t miss it. In order to be brief I will summarize all you can do in this park. This list doesn’t even include the large green spaces and paved walking path around the whole thing.
1. It is adjacent to the Heritage Rail Trail for biking, jogging, scootering, etc. This awesome bike path starts in downtown old Hilliard and goes for miles towards Plain City with a few jumping on and off points along the way.
2. There is a large «castle-​like» playground with water guns that is a kid favorite in warm weather — bring a towel!
3. Shelters for all occasions — there are a variety of shelter for public use and reservations (only Washington Twp residents can reserve!). They range from a small barn with outdoor picnic area, to a large pavilion overlooking the lake and are great for meeting places.
4. Mini-​bike/​race trail — I have had big wheel races for kids on this little road course near the water play area — not sure if that was the original design, but it works great.
5. Basketball courts — self explanatory
6. Railroad cars — decorative, but cool, with a little depot, too!
7. Big fishing pond/​lake — lots of fish and frogs.
This park gets a lot of use, but with good reason, take advantage if you are in the area!

I LOVE this park. Seriously. LOVE IT! This park is a great park to visit for family get togethers, showers, picnics, or even just to push your kid on the swing or slide. Its a cool place where there are various different places for the kids to play, rollerblade and play volleyball. The walking course around the area I believe is ¾ of a mile, but it is very well maintained and easy to walk.
I’ve come here to take pictures of the covered bridge, gazebo and other parts of the park. My husband and I brought our bridal party here in October for some pictures as well.
Great place to visit and quiet too — great place to go for a get together of some kind! (Not sure if dogs are allowed here — on or off leash.)

This park is amazing. Some of the most creatively designed playgrounds I’ve seen and there’s a couple of them. There’s also a water play park and a special playground for toddlers.
There’s grills to cook out on everywhere, covered picnic areas, a butterfly garden, a train car to climb on, real bathrooms, soda machine, water fountains (that never work), an antique tractor to climb up on, basketball courts, volleyball courts, tetherball poles, ponds.
There’s paved trails that go all around and through the park and it links up with the Heritage Trail that stretches clear across town.
There’s also a course for roller bladers, which is something pretty rare. I would think it would also be good for racing RC cars; just an idea.
It’s very close to Hilliard Municipal Park too, which also has a great playground, water park and gym. (
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The best part about Homestead Park is the squirt gun tower. No matter your age, you can climb aboard this ship and pretend to be defending good or purporting evil as you shoot at your buddies (or random small children) on the ground below. There are guns on the ground too, but everyone knows the higher ground has the advantage.
But Homestead is more than a squirt gun tower. There are two swing set and jungle gym areas along with basketball courts. There’s plenty of grassland to roam around on, and the picnic pavilion is large enough to hold a family reunion in.
I think this park is built for boys. There’s a sandbox area with mechanical dump trucks and tons of tunnels and slides to crawl down and under and through.
If you have kids of varying ages, this might also be a good place for you. The playground areas are broken up into sections appropriate for bigger, more boisterous children and sections designated for younger kids who are still working on those motor skills.