Marcotte is fairly easy to find and parking is street parking but I’ve never been and not been able to find a spot. The walk to the playground is short!
You walk up and immediately there are drums and tubes for music making. A couple are broken but the ones that work kids enjoy! The second thing you’ll notice is art work (most call it graffiti) lining the sidewalks. There is a seated merry go round when you immediately step onto the foam turf. Behind that are three spinning seats that move with the weight of your child. In the middle of the turf is a few tables shaded by one of those tent like covers. Around the edge or the turf is a metal beaver and metal tortoise for kids to climb onto. There’s also a fake rock structure, with fake bugs planted on it and a little walk through. A recently added area is a water mister. There’s only one but it covers plenty of area especially on a windy day. I found kids here a lot. It doesn’t get them soaked but it definitely will cool them down. This is also shaded by a umbrella type cover. There is swingset with a few seated swings, a couple regular swings and some bucket swings. The squeak very very loudly. Not a deterant but certainly not pleasant.
Behind the swingset is where the slides are. They are sort of built into the hill. The furthest to the left is a double curved slide. Kids can walk up the hill or steps to get to this slide or any of the slides. The slide in the middle is a tubular slide with some windows along it. To the right of this is a ladder suspended on ropes as another means of getting up or down the hill of slides. Younger kids can do this but toddlers ma struggle as it wobbles. There is one study step in the middle of it but everything else moves. The last slide on this hill is one of those rolly ones. I swear I didn’t plan on my kids spending a half hour on this slide but they did. Both my 17m and 4y could not get enough of this slide. There are steps near by it to climb or you can walk up the turfed hill.
There is some shade but not a lot. I also saw some portable pottys but they were quite far away across the street in a gated field. There were some water fountains that didn’t work. Heavily populated by honeybees, at least near the trashcan near the tables in the middle. I’ve been when it’s only us at the playground and I’ve been when it’s busy. I wish I could tell you when to go for either but it’s been so sporadic. Our recent visit was taken over by teenagers or young adults who were rolling and smoking blunts. Yes. On the playground. With young kids present. They also were horsing around stomping on the slides as their friends slid through. Yelling obscenities.
If you live in lewiston/Aurburn and just need a place to kick back sure this place is a good spot. It is not worth going out of your way for. Especially at the risk of others smoking marijuana on the playground. I am a medical marijuana patient and grower so it’s not weed I have a problem with, it’s that it was going on while kids were there. Maybe it was an isolated incident but I just want to make note of that. There’s not a whole lot to do and we’ve never spent more than an hour here except for our recent visit when our kids met some friends and rolled down the rolly slide.
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