Tanglewood Park - Splash Pad and Playgrounds
January 3, 2008
Tanglewood park is a great park in town. It’s one of three “Splash Pads” in Bryan and College Station (one at Tiffany Park, and another at Lincoln Center).
These Splash Pads consist of fountains and even a water bucket that fills up and splashes down. It’s great fun in the summer and spring. It’s about the size of a basketball court…maybe smaller, and there’s a controller to turn it on when it turns itself off. The cycle is about 10 minutes, and the controller is just a post with a round top that is touch activated.
I read this about the Splash Pads from the Eagle website:
Based on the popularity splash pads in Bryan/College Station, city officials are considering including more of these features in future projects, so be sure to keep the look out for new splash pads this Summer.
I called the City of Bryan Parks and Recreation, and they told me that the water is City Water, just like you’d get out of your faucet.
Tanglewood park has several covered pavillions, three playgrounds, a sand volleyball court and loads of picnic tables.
We really like this park. Not as much variety as Austin’s Colony (well, except for the Splash Pad) but great playgrounds, and although it’s a well know park, we’ve never had trouble finding empty picnic tables.
You can get there from Villa Maria, 29th or Texas Ave.
And just so you know, here’s a website that sells these Water Play Features. I don’t know if Bryan and College Station get them any cheaper, but we can assume that these are approximately the price our city paid as well. I guess that’s what our taxes are paying for. I’m OK with that. Parks are fun.
Go play.
Jorge
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Laura | January 4, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I heard the water at Tanglewood Park is fresh but that the water at Tiffany Park is “recycled” or something like that … that’s what I get for eavesdropping and not asking more questions. I just know my friends started taking their kids to Tanglewood, because it has “fresh” water … whatever that means. I wish we had more in town … actually, I would love one in my backyard, but I bet they are expensive. Could you ever “outgrow” one of those? :o)
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Jorge Goyco | January 4, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I just called the city and they told me the water is potable, just like what comes out of your tap. It is not chlorinated like pool water, and they told me it’s the same at Tiffany and Tanglewood.
And yeah, they are expensive. I found a website selling them and one of the bucket things like at Tiffany is around $11,000.
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Laura | January 5, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Thanks so much for checking that out! That’s what happens with rumors!
Wow! $11,000 … guess we won’t be putting one of those in the backyard anytime soon! It would still be cool though … AND much cheaper and I would think easier to maintain than a pool!