Kids Kingdom Playground

If you’ve got kids anywhere between toddler age and around 12, this Columbia spot is worth knowing about. The covered slides are genuinely tall — the kind that actually get older kids excited instead of bored — and there’s enough climbing structure variety that little ones aren’t constantly fighting over the same piece of equipment. It got a recent refresh, so the equipment feels current and solid rather than the weathered stuff you find at a lot of older parks. Locals bring their kids here regularly, which means yours will probably find someone to run around with pretty quickly.