Oaks Park - An Amusement Park in Portland, Oregon

Did you know that there is an amusement park in Portland, Oregon?

Oaks Park is a small amusement park located in Portland, Oregon in the Sellwood area.  They've got rides for every age.  One area is set up just for younger children which is perfect for kids 2 - 7 years old. Most of the rides are what you would typically find at a fair or carnival. The best deal is to get your kid a wrist band that allows them to ride all of the rides for $16. If your child is too little to ride the largest rides then get the limited bracelet for $13.

They also have an indoor skating rink and putt putt. The skating rink hosts a preschool time each week.

For parents there are lots of benches for sitting!


















Every summer the Multnomah County library offers a summer reading program. The reward for finishing the program is a voucher to Oaks Park. It's a great way to take your kids there for free!

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Sesame Place

Sesame Place

Did you know that there is an entire theme park in Pennsylvania dedicated to Sesame Street? We went there for last minute day trip last week. It's small, but packed with fun. I actually enjoyed the fact that the park was small. I had all three kids with me by myself, and the park was easy to manage.  

Sesame Place's target audience is families with toddlers. Which makes it great in most ways, but a pain in other ways. For example to get on the lazy river you have to wait in line and the life guard helps every single person. This is perfect if you have young children and need help. If you are like me and have older kids then it stinks to have to stand in line for so long.

The best advice I can give you is bring a bathing suit. I would guess that 65% of this park is water features. 

Again, because the park is toddler friendly most of the water play areas are shallow. I think the deepest water in the park was the lazy river. There were at least two splash pads and one very shallow pool. 

It's definitely worth the wait for the 

large family tube ride, it was so fun.

If you are not into water rides there is still plenty to do. The climbing course was massive, but a bit to difficult for my five year old. Luckily there are lots of rides (including this yellow bounce thing you see in the picture below) right next to the climbing area. This play area is great place for multiple ages. Your older kids can run around while still in sight, while you are nearby with the younger kid.

 

FREE ADMISSION for MILITARY!

If one of your family members is in the military you and your family will receive free 

admission.

This post is part of Photo Friday at Delicious Baby, Friday Daydreaming at RWeThereYetMom and BudgetTravelersSandbox.

Great Wolf Lodge in WA

We went to the Great Wolf Lodge a few times about a year ago. Our kids loved it and we did too. At the time we were living right outside of Portland, OR so we visited the one up in Washington, Grand Mound. It had been a very cold winter and it was very refreshing to step into their water park that they keep extremely warm. I think they keep it at 78 degrees.

The rooms were awesome. There was a refrigerator and microwave. The kids had a bunk area with their own tv. This may not sound like much but what a difference it makes to have that little separate area!

There were also wall hangings, treasure boxes, and other strange things that would "go off" when you waved a magic wand at them. My kids loved this feature! You can get a wand in their magic shop.

The actual water park had tons to do. A kiddie area, wave pool, body slides, tube slides, hot tub and a swimming area with basketball and lily pads to cross.

I would definitely recommend this. It is expensive so be sure to sign up for their mailing list to get good deals. We were able to get a deal that they mailed to us for $175 a night and another time we used the military discount and got the room for $170 a night. Both times we were able to get this rate on a bunk room. It is expensive to eat at the actually hotel. Go into town to eat!

Since we have been there they have opened another family tube ride and a putt putt course.

Blizzard Beach waterpark

Blizzard beach is one of Disney World's waterparks. I wish I had taken more pictures but this was all I got.

They have a large kid area where they can climb in these floating alligators. The water is very shallow in this area. To each side of this area are slides and up above is a little area with very small slide where little kids can climb and slide.

This is an area for bigger kids. They can challenge themselves to cross on these floating ice pads while hanging on to the rope above. Also in this area was some body slides and a little zip line where they could zip out let go and fall into the water.

This water park was a little to spread out for us. We did a lot of walking to get to the rides. Many of the rides are from the top of the "mountain" and they go straight down. They were to high for our kids to ride them, but they were fun. they also had a family ride that was fun.

Disney's other water park Typhoon Lagoon!

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