Pickrell Park

Location: 703 Oak St, Schertz, TX 78154

Amenitites: baseball, basketball, pavilion, restrooms, playgrounds, concessions, picnic tables, pool

Ground cover: wood chips

This park is enormous, and my three year old could easily spend all day playing here.  In fact, we spent most of our time on the large playground, and really only did a quick walk by of all the rest for pictures.  There is a lot to do for all ages here, although some of the stuff that is best for the very little kids is quite far from what I consider the main playground.  Something to keep in mind if you have a bunch of little ones with you.

Here's the pool with its awesome-looking slide (we haven't actually used this pool so I can't review it.  But my guess would be fun and probably crowded during the summer.  Feel free to check it out and get back to me.)

Large pavilion with basketball hoops and concession stands.

There are three separate structures at the "main" playground.  This is the most toddler friendly of the three.  You can access all the slides from the stairs and it's not super high up.

Here's another structure. Obviously taller, but the slides can also all be accessed by stairs, so toddlers and preschoolers can manage well.

There i also a really impressive rock climbing wall.  Which makes up for this one...

Maybe they should just take that down??

 This is the third structure.  Lots of fun things going on here, and it extends past the picture with some monkey bars too.  The first time we came to this park my daughter was 18 months or so, and she couldn't access most of these slides because you can't get to all of them without some climbing (that she kind of still can't do two years later...but other preschoolers can totally manage it).

To get to all but one of the slides on this structure you have to climb up these things.

 There' another, smaller, playground a the south end of the park.  It's a great size and just the right level of challenge for younger kids and toddlers. Probably not challenging enough for school age children.

Whee!

 Then if you head north and west (across the drainage ditch, which is generally empty and easy to cross as long as it isn't storming like crazy) you will find the swings.  They are far enough away that you can't really see them from the big playground, so your kids will actually run around inside of just sitting on a swing begging to be pushed (unless of course you walk alllll the way over there like we did).  There's also a parking lot on this side, in case you really are just there for the swings.

 There's even an extra set of bucket swings. 

 There's another little toddler-friendly playground over here, right by the swings.

 It also has a few more challenging things to climb on for preschoolers.

 And another pavilion.  I didn't count how many there are total. But there were a lot.  And tons of picnic tables throughout the park. Maybe next time we will bring lunch!

On the same side of the drainage ditch as the swings, we saw (and of course slid down) one stand alone slide.  Then it was time to go!