Washington Park Preschool Playground

If you’ve got a two-year-old who keeps getting bulldozed at bigger playgrounds, this spot in Charlottesville is worth bookmarking. It’s built specifically for the under-five crowd, so the equipment actually makes sense for little legs and short attention spans — no scaling massive climbing walls just to find something age-appropriate. The shade trees do real work here in the summer, which anyone who’s touched a metal slide in July will appreciate. Parents can actually keep eyes on their kids without constantly repositioning, which makes the whole outing a lot less stressful.