Ridgway Swim Center
About this place
A shallow instructional pool next to the lap pool and a 140-foot water slide; kids need to be 48 inches to ride it.
How kid-friendly is it?
Nearby places
Santa Rosa's original play cafe: a real breakfast-and-lunch restaurant with a supervised play area built in, so kids roam while parents finish a hot coffee. Kids Bay Area's Santa Rosa family pick.
Downtown-adjacent full-service Hyatt on Railroad Street: outdoor pool and gardens, walkable to Railroad Square's restaurants - the reliable chain anchor in Santa Rosa.
Santa Rosa's family pizza legend: kids get a ball of raw pizza dough to play with at the table, then watch their own creation come out of the wood oven - dinner IS the activity.
Downtown Santa Rosa's shady green: a well-covered climbing structure mid-lawn, bocce and picnic tables, steps from the downtown core - the calm weekday-morning play stop.
Peanuts headquarters: the Schulz Museum's comic-strip exhibits and hands-on cartooning, then walk across the street to Snoopy's Home Ice for public skating in the rink Charles Schulz built - the Santa Rosa pilgrimage for Peanuts kids.
Burgers with a play area, chalkboard walls and foosball tables, and a kids menu for 12 and under.