Help For Little Runners: Enclosed/Fenced Playgrounds In The Area

Moving recently to the Central Florida area with children, including a set of multiples, one has a lot of questions when trying to settle in a family. Who are the best pediatricians? Where are the preschools or schools located? Where are the playgrounds or parks located?

As mothers, we sometimes can picture a beautiful day in the park with our children. The sun shining, the children swinging on the swings, and eating a picnic lunch under a shaded tree. However, as mothers of multiples, our time at the park is usually spent trying to herd our multiples, like cattle ranchers. Multiples are ALWAYS running in opposite directions beyond the limitations of where a mother’s body can actually stretch.

A way to help assist parents and multiples-on-the-go is to take them to enclosed (fenced-in) parks. The following list is of enclosed parks in the Central FL. (I would like to personally thank the following groups for giving me the park information and recommendations: The “Little Herd of Pitter-Patter”, SW Kidz Korner, and Greater Orlando Mothers of Twins and Triplets. The groups are valuable to a new neighbor in the area.)

CLERMONT
Paradise Park: 2500 US Highway 27 (Behind the Family Christian Center)
http://www.ourparadisepark.org/home.html

MAITLAND
Minnehaha Park: 1011 East Horatio Avenue http://www.itsmymaitland.com/pr_facility_services.aspx

ORLANDO
Delaney Park: 1050 S Osceola Avenue http://orlandoplaygrounds.com/2009/12/delaney-park-in-orlando
Shadow Bay Park: 5100 Turkey Lake Road http://gocitykids.parentsconnect.com/attraction/shadow-bay-park-5100-turkey-lake-road-orlando-fl-32819-us

WINTER GARDEN
Braddock Park: 13460 Lake Butler Boulevard http://www.cwgdn.com/resident/parks
Newton Park: 31 West Garden Avenue http://www.cwgdn.com/resident/parks

INFORMATION ON AREA PARKS – GREAT FOR FAMILY OUTINGS
Clermont: http://clermont.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B7D23DCBD-EAF1-4BAE-8C7F-C988ED135FC1%7D

Maitland: http://www.itsmymaitland.com/pr_facility_services.aspx

Orlando: http://orlandoplaygrounds.com/

Winter Garden: http://www.cwgdn.com/resident/parks

For more info: Please contact me if you know of any enclosed parks not listed above.
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