Legacy Park All-Inclusive Playground

If you’ve got kids with different abilities, this is genuinely the spot in Alachua — it was the first fully accessible playground in the county, and you can tell real thought went into it. The whole area is fenced, which parents around here appreciate more than they’ll admit, and the shade coverage makes a real difference when you’re dealing with a Florida afternoon. Kids 2 to 14 have plenty to work with, and there’s open grass nearby when someone inevitably needs to run in a straight line for a while. The bathrooms are consistently clean, which sounds like a low bar but isn’t — bring a picnic and actually stay a while.