What an incredible addition to the Haverford area! If you are in the area stop by and take a tour…read more You will be impressed. Just a few of the features are- * Double Gymnasium * Walking Track * Nature Area * Health and Wellness Area * Next door are walking trails and a great and popular dog park.

Great kids playground! Very large, so many fun things for…read morekids to climb on, imagine, play with. They have music toys, sandbox, slides, and water misters. The ground is made of soft rubber material. There are a bunch of benches for parents to relax on. :) There are bathrooms right next to the playground. Around are fields and nature trails. One of the trails along the creek has a nice spot for kids to jump in and get a little wet.

Easy and beautiful trails with great scenery. Once you've passed the blue route, the noise of…read morenature takes over. Deer, chipmunks and squirrels are frolicking around. Disc golf course can be "human loud" on the weekends.

Fun fact: Decades ago, this property was the site of the Haverford State Mental Hospital, which…read moreoperated from 1964-1998. In 2006 Haverford Township sold the property to a developer with requirements that part of the land be kept for public recreation. These 5 miles of trails are the result, along with a rec center, dog park and athletic fields. On an unusually warm winter day Sheba and I went for a hike along the trails. We entered by the rec center, then followed the creek bed to the meadow & back. We passed a pollinator garden and some disc golf sites. It's a lovely hike any time of year. Trail markings are minimal, this would be the principal reason for a 4 star review. We could see the heavy autumn rains have taken a toll in a decent amount of trail erosion, leaving mazes of roots spread across the paths. As the property borders a busy highway we never quite got to the peaceful sounds of the deep woods. I highly recommend you have a photo of the trail map with you as it's not hard to get turned around. Wear good sturdy shoes, and a walking stick is not a bad idea. We swill definitely be back.

Elwell Field is a great park/playground that is on our rotation of places to go with the kiddo…read more There are multiple play structures including a large wooden play structure that offers multiple stories of things to play on. Underneath has some pretend items for smaller kids to play in. Multiple slides including one enclosed 2 story slide that is a favorite of ours. 2 additional stand-alone slides, a geodesic dome, swings... plenty of things for everyone to play on! There is also a couple of baseball fields that are catty-corner to one another with some grass in between. There are two tennis courts that are in really great shape and two basketball courts that are usually open. The park is adjacent to the Haverford College nature trail which is a nice way to extend a park visit or change up the walk to and from the park. Parking is a bit of a pain in the butt, only street parking however it is worth the hassle.

Great park, baseball fields, basketball court, tennis courts, and a playground. My suggestion is to…read morewalk instead of park if you live nearby as parking can be annoying. Not much to say, fine park!

Merwood is one of my daughters favorite parks to go to that is close by. She loves all the…read moredifferent options for play structures like teeter toddlers, fire truck, many swings, slides, Merry go rounds, jungle gyms, and rocking animals. There is also a little free library on site as well as 2 basketball courts, pavilion with a charcoal grilling setup, picnic tables, and 2 baseball fields. There is a paved path that leads from Hathaway lane down to the park, onto the man bridge that crosses the creek. Often ducks can be spotted hanging out there which is another fun bonus. There is plenty to do here and everyone we've met here has been super friendly and accommodating. When the nice weather months are happening, there are two bathrooms with running water, a significant improvement over most parks with only port-a-potties.

This is not obvious to find if you're not from the area. I was led through the neighborhood and…read morecame to a really awkward 5-way intersection where one road bends, and two others empty onto it parallel to one another but not intersecting, and 5th road is the driveway to the park, so it's by no means a conventional 5 points. Just super awkward, and despite stopping and looking both ways, some dude blew his stop (speeding in 25mph zone), and almost hit me. So finding the entrance just sucks. Once you start down the drive to the park it's even more awkward. There was zero planning for this park. Clearly land was scarce so it's a single lane driveway with barely enough room to parallel park along it, and a cramped small turnaround at the end of it by the bathrooms. 100% not enough parking to accommodate the festival I attended, but it was okay for the smallish birthday party we attended with no one else there on another day and time. If you anticipate a lot of people being there, just park on the street nearby because you won't find a space on that driveway, and you'll regret it if you do. First visit was when friends invited us to meet here for a local festival, including a free bounce slide and free live music. It was a decent band and a decent crowd sat and enjoyed them for hours while they played from under the singular pavilion, and most kids played on the nearby playground. (They also had various local businesses and nonprofits in tents around the playground, but I was surprised that every one of them was trying to sell overpriced tchotchkes or penny novelty toys for "a donation", and those weren't even nonprofits! The festival isn't necessarily a reflection of the park itself, but it definitely colored my impression of who runs things and allows things to unfold as they do. * *I will say the dunk tank was very cute (and sadly I forget who I was donating to, but it was a legit nonprofit), and that was a fair and fun way to encourage donations! Paddock has a baseball field, bathrooms in a cinder block building, pickleball, tennis, basketball, and aforementioned playground and one picnic pavilion. Friends also rented the pavilion to host a birthday party a few weeks later. They said it was easy and affordable to rent it (but didn't disclose price). In the middle of the party some 20-something came over to ask us if he could use a picnic table. I found it super rude since he didn't pay to rent anything and clearly there was a children's party going on. The table had tablecloth and party decorations all over it, streamers taped to it, gifts all over it! There were zero other tables available in the park, but that's on park planners; I'd have told him to find a picnic blanket and get lost. Our hosts were super kind to move all their stuff to accommodate his rude azz. All in all this is a safe, small park with basically all of the land dedicated to specific activity purposes, so it's not a nature-interactive site, rather an outdoor recreation site. It serves the local community, and with many residences nearby that are walkable to it, it works as it is. For non-local visitors, parking stinks, and if you aren't visiting for a specific purpose, there's nothing especially unique or aesthetic to draw you there.

This is a clean park. Bigger than some of the other local parks. It includes a tennis court,…read morebasketball court and plenty of slides for the kids. It also has a pavilion with benches, which is useful in case it rains.

Terrific trail! I've been going to my YMCA for a number of years, and I've seen this trail attached…read moreto the parking lot but have never actually taken the time to explore it. Today, when I pulled up, I saw way more people than usual on the trail. I thought to myself, "I'm here early. I got time. Let's check it out." Glad I did! It was about 1.25 miles down to West Chester Pike, so roughly a 2.5 mile loop from the YMCA. Great little paved path to get a warm-up walk/jog in. It is flat and paved the whole way, so it is handicapped accessible. Lots of doggo walking and bike riding. I recommend it!

Really nice trail generally shared by walkers, leashed dogs, joggers, strollers and an occasional…read morebike! Early mornings or at dusk pretty common to see fox along the trail. It's expanding across Manoa road, ground is broken. I've only been on the trail at "peak times" and it seems I always see others nearby.

Vernon Young Park is part of a trio of three great Township Locations - the other two being the…read moreco-located Ardmore Avenue Pool and the Ardmore Avenue Community Center (AKA "The Shack"). This is a very well kept moderately sized park in the urban village of Ardmore. It's down the street from the Ardmore Library, Post Office and the PALM (Positive Aging Lower Merion) Senior Center. The park has four distinct areas. First, the playground, which faces Ardmore Avenue and is directly outside the pool entrance. It has a high fence (so no toddlers can easily take off, as they are likely to do), some fairly new play structures and lots of wood chips. There are also a few benches and shade trees. Then there are the basketball courts, which run games pretty regularly, both league and pick-up games. They are in good shape, have bleachers and shade awnings over the bleachers. Nice touch. There are some tennis courts, also high fenced, in very good shape. Then there is the 'lower' playing fields with two baseball diamonds and lots of grass. In the warmer months there are many baseball, soccer and flag football games going on basically every afternoon and all weekend. It's only downfall is that it is a more urban park, meant to be walked to, so if you're parking there it can be a challenge. Ardmore Avenue is one of the busier streets so it's not a quiet, tranquil place, especially when the adjacent pool is open. It is, however, well kept and well used, and has something for just about everyone (except the person looking for a quiet spot to read - not happening here).

Basketball, small playground, two baseball fields, tennis.read more

OMG, this place is beautiful. I have attended multiple…read moreevents here for 3 different community groups who rent the well appointed rooms here. Staff is great. Facilities are terrific. Parking gets full. All sorts of outdoor and indoor activities. Wish we had this in Media, PA.

Nice park with good new equipment. There's a shaded pavilion which is nice if you pack a lunch…read more There are a few issues though. First, there is very little if any shade on the actual playground, so a summer visit can be very hot very quickly. Second, the park is so heavily used that lots of things have wear and tear even though it isn't that old. Also, the way the equipment is built, smaller kids and toddlers can run under it but there's no shortcut for parents, so a little kid can get far away from a parent with ease. I don't know if this is a regular occurrence, but during my latest visit on a Sunday afternoon there were a large pack of teenagers there. They were using the equipment improperly, yelling, and cursing. For a park inside a residence I would expect a little more management by the township.