Free playground beside a large complex of sports fields, with shade and picnic tables.
A pirate-ship climber by the river, next to a skating pavilion where admission and skate rentals are free.
Fully fenced and shaded by trees, with a climbing rock for bigger kids and a canoe slide for smaller ones.
The play structures are modeled on city landmarks, so kids can climb the sights.
Two fenced play areas, one for ages 2 to 5 and one for 5 to 12, so a toddler and an older sibling each get their own space. Plus a big field for running.
A big climbing area plus a train-themed play section beside the park paths.
The climbing equipment is turtle-themed, so small kids get something to pretend with while they climb.
Shaded neighborhood playground with climbing, spinning play, swings and a sandbox.
A labyrinth set into the ground for kids to trace, and wide paths along the river.
Two play areas with river views at the far tip of a long riverside park.
Neighborhood playground with slides and play structures, with some shade.
A huge seated Lincoln with his famous words carved on the walls beside him. Kids can read along while you look up.
A fenced playground for ages 2 to 5 on soft rubber, next to a community garden.
The founding documents themselves, with interactive displays that explain them.
Galleries inside and a sculpture garden outside, with room to walk among the big pieces.
Dinosaur skeletons, animal halls, minerals and ocean displays under one roof.
Giant pandas, a kids' farm of cows, goats and alpacas, and a carousel.
A glasshouse of tropical plants and desert displays, so kids can go from jungle to cactus in a few steps.
Small, shady playground run by its neighbors.
Small playground on the site of an old trolley turnaround.
Playground beside an open lawn on the bike trail.
Recreation center with a spray park and a playground.
Spray park at the community center.
Two fountains to play in: a shallow cascade for toddlers and a plaza of jets for bigger kids.
Spray park at the community center.
Recreation center with a spray park and a playground.
Recreation center with a playground, a tot lot and a spray park.
Small playground by the Metro and the market.
Spray park at the recreation center.
Playground beside neighborhood courts.
Recreation center with a playground, a tot lot and a spray park.
Spray park at the recreation center.
Neighborhood spray park.
Neighborhood playground with slides and a small climbing area beside a green.
Renovated playground with climbing and slides and space to run around.
Spray park at the recreation center.
Nature-themed play area beside open fields.
Recreation center with a playground, a tot lot and a spray park.
Spray park at a therapeutic recreation center.
Two playgrounds in a neighborhood park.
Boardwalks run out over the ponds, so kids can look straight down into the water. The lotus blooms are a summer thing.
Two play areas with paths nearby.
Spray park at the recreation center.
Park with a spray park.
Neighborhood playground with climbing equipment and a sand play area.
Play area with shady paths in a city park.
Spray park at the recreation center.
Playground and lawn in a neighborhood park.
Portraits and a courtyard, plus Explore, a hands-on space for 18 months to 8, so the youngest have their own room.
Neighborhood play area beside community gardens.
Neighborhood spray park.
Neighborhood spray park.
Neighborhood spray park.
Spray park at the recreation center.
A playground outside a community center with an outdoor pool and an indoor gym.
Neighborhood spray park.
Toddler playground with low play structures.
Landmark planes and spacecraft overhead, and a gallery on how flight works with a plane kids can sit in.
Wonderplace for small kids and Spark Lab for young inventors.
Mail trucks, stamps and interactive stories about how a letter gets to the door.
A tall Wallholla climbing tower packed into a small city park. The tower is what school-age kids head for.
Cultural center with a playground, a spray park and an outdoor pool.
Wide green grounds to run on, garden paths and a bonsai collection to see up close.
Spray park at the recreation center.
Historic market hall with food stalls, where the blueberry buckwheat pancakes are a kid favorite, and crafts and produce outside on weekends.
Hands-on family workshops split by age, inside a beautiful library built around Shakespeare's plays.
Free outdoor memorial of rooms, sculptures and fountains, one for each of the four terms.
Free modern art museum full of strange, big works to talk about.
Family days with hands-on activities drawn from the collections, inside one of the most beautiful buildings in the country.
Free memorial with a huge carved statue and a wall of his quotations.
Free central library with a big reading room and art on the walls.
Free museum of African American history and culture, with galleries on music and sports.
Free language museum with voice-activated exhibits, karaoke and word games, best for ages 10 and up.
Quiet galleries and an art workshop where kids look closely at a piece, then make their own in the studio.
Artifacts and stories from Indigenous cultures, plus the imagiNATIONS activity center where kids get to try things with their hands.
Free round memorial with columns and a tall statue, on the edge of the Tidal Basin.
Holocaust history told through one boy's life, made for kids eight and up.
Free memorial of pillars for every state around a big fountain plaza.
Neighborhood playground.
Triangle park with a playground.
Neighborhood playground.
Recreation center with a playground.
Recreation center with a playground.
Recreation center with a playground.
Recreation center with a playground and a tot lot.
Park with a playground and a tot lot.
A bright new museum with a story time for young children, full of songs and play.
Neighborhood park with a playground.
Community center with a playground and a tot lot.
Recreation center with a playground and a tot lot.
Recreation center with a playground.
Recreation center with a playground and a tot lot.
Park with a playground and a tot lot.
Recreation center with a playground and a tot lot.
Park with a tot lot.
Neighborhood playground.
Park with a playground and a tot lot.
Recreation center with a playground and a tot lot.
Park with a playground.
Community center with a playground and a tot lot.
Recreation center with a playground and a tot lot.
Park with a tot lot.
Museum of spies where kids take on an undercover mission and crack codes, best for older kids.
Park with a children's playground, a ballfield and basketball courts.
Recreation center with a playground.
Park with a playground.
Rooms of illusions you walk into and pose in, the biggest hit with tweens and teens.
Step into picture-book worlds and read, sketch and build inside them. It's pitched at kindergarten through third grade.
A three-story slide at the entrance, hands-on science and art exhibits, and walled-off baby zones for the littlest crawlers.
Park with a playground.
Recreation center with a playground and a tot lot.
Recreation center with a playground and a tot lot.
Field with a walking track, a soccer field and a tot lot.
Carved horses and an accessible chariot for riders who can't climb on, right between the museums.
Recreation center with a playground and a tot lot.
Park with a playground.
Neighborhood park with a playground.
Park with a playground and a tot lot.
Recreation center with a playground, a tot lot and an outdoor pool with a water slide.
