Olive Street Mini-Park

The kitchenette pick: suite layouts, so dinner can happen in and bedtime doesn't mean the whole room goes dark.

A fire engine to play on for the under-fives and climbing obstacles for older kids, so both get their own corner.

A real live puppet show, which is exactly the right first theater for a preschooler.

Open-air fried chicken with lawn games, so kids can move around while you eat.

Classic cars on rotating display.

A whole kids' area built for play, with a waterfall grotto to get soaked in and an old oak to climb by rope bridge, so pack a change of clothes.