Best Playground / Park

Zilker Park

Zilker Park, with its eminently climbable fire engine, its miniature train rides around the entire park, and oh yeah, the multicolored chutes and ladders and platforms and semi-cages of its almost Dr. Seussian architecture, right there in the middle of the great in-town outdoors, is the perfect place for kids to get happily heated up before plunging into the chillsville water of nearby Barton Springs. How can it not win?

Zilker Park
2100 Barton Springs Rd., 512/974-6700
austintexas.gov/zilker