For our family reunion picnic my mom selected Doling Park family center which was pretty brilliant…read more We were inside a large air conditioned facility with a kitchen, nice clean bathrooms, attendants on duty who happily pitched in to help with group photos. The park is really big with plenty of outdoor activities. Doling Park is a Springfield gem. I would definitely keep Doling Park Family Center in mind for future activities.

Love this gym! Not only the great equipment "way better than the one on Republic", but also a few…read moreof the girls in child care. Some of the girls there go above, and beyond. Playing, and entertaining the children, and it's free! There's never usually a wait for machines, place is clean, and no "muscle head's." Awesome court to play anything you like from basketball, volleyball even badminton!.. They have a lot of free aerobic classes, and a fantastic pool area. I would give this place 5 star's, but what's holding me back , is they use paper towels for cleaning instead of cloth, and their vending machine doesn't have lot's of healthy options. Other than that. I love this place!

Came ice skating with a few fiends, we where just having fun and a hour of ridding he didn't say…read moreanything no warning, then kicked us out an hour after not staying anything to stop what we where doing wrong, obviously he's not getting any , could've been a good guy and said hey cut that out or gave us a warning, hopefully he can get trained properly. Or better yet get fired for his lack of knowledge and being very unprofessional during his work hours, hope he felt good using his power of being a staff.

The Mediacom Ice Park hosts a range of options for icy fun…read more Hockey - If you like to watch hockey, the two rinks are home to both the Springfield Spirit, the Springfield Express, and the Missouri State Ice Bears. If you want to play hockey, there are both adult and youth leagues for all ages and abilities. The youth program is the only Olympic Development Program for hockey in the country. Ice Skating - There are classes and private lessons for ice skating for all ages as well. You can watch competitions and exhibitions at various times throughout the year. They also have open skate times almost every day - rental skates are available. The Ice park also has several spaces that you can rent for parties. If you don't like to skate, you can do a broom ball party on the ice. I haven't played, but it looks like fun. As a gal who grew up in the midwest with no access to ice sports, I love that my kids can learn these sports in such a nice facility.

Kids are having fun. Concrete floor with roll on. A few small dips. Has trainers for beginner's…read more Live DJ.

Our second time here. There's another one I wrote a review for on Yelp prior. This address is…read morecorrect though. It's a great place! Ample seating. Lots of good stuff at the snack bar. Air hockey. A separate area for birthdays. Polite employees and patrons. We live near Springfield and have a great rink there. Friday nights here are way less crowded and nuts than Springfield. The floor is super smooth concrete. The walls are painted cool with art. The music is up beat. They have had games during the session both times we came where you can win prizes. That's always cool. If we lived closer we would be regulars here for sure. Definitely recommend it!

Best choice in town if you have little ones with too much energy and want to spend $0.read more

Nice well-kept park with soccer fields, dog park, skate park, and playgrounds. The bathrooms are…read morekept clean, and the grounds of the park are always maintained, grass cut etc.

My boyfriend and I drove to the Lake of the Ozarks State Park to camp by tent for two nights. The…read morepark and campground was HUGE, with all sorts of trails and attractions around the area. We saw tons of deer! There were deer everywhere walking around and not scared of people. In fact, the deer were walking through and around campsites in groups/pairs. I loved the serenity of the campground also! What an amazing experience!! We both agreed that we will definitely return!!

Roaches outpost 3. Ruined family vacation. Bugs on our food in our beds and bites on my wife and…read moredaughter. Nasty.

So glad we discovered this community park. Nice combination of playground, splash pad, picnic…read morearea, walking paths - and close to the commemorative Trail of Tears area. This is a 1/2 way point for meeting family that provides a fun break from the car ride for my grandchildren. Always clean and well tended.

Great playground for the kids. Clean and well kept. There is a skate park just behind the…read moreplayground and swimming pools nearby. They have bathroom facilities and shade trees. Open late.

Cute little gardens. Not sure worth the entry fee. We usually go for Christmas light viewing in…read moreDecember. The nathaniel Greene Park attached to it is free and full of walking trails and green spaces for picnics and a few playgrounds.

Small but super nice Japanese garden. Normally $6/adult but they accepted our reciprocal Missouri…read moreBotanical Garden membership which is a nice perk. A lot of the paths seem to have a drainage problem from the heavy overnight rains, but a small issue considering how nice the garden is. Very relaxing and pretty empty for a nice Saturday midday visit!

I love this Springfield park perhaps most of all. I love to trot down here for a good run, and…read moreevery time I do, I feel like I see something new. I see birthday parties; I see families, couples, people walking their dogs; I see LARPers (look it up); I see potlucks; I see high school science projects; I see track teams; I see lone runners. This is a great place to see the Springfield community at their happiest and most relaxed. Not to mention it offers an impressive amount of amenities: a few tennis courts, a full playground, BBQ pits, a sprinking of permament art installations, and a very nice, covered communal area. This is a very old park, and the practicality of it paired with all the old stone work and giant Oak trees makes for a unique place to stop and unwind alone or with your favorite people/pets. A few other reasons why Phelps rocks: it's in a gorgeous, well-established neighborhood full of interesting and well-maintaned forever homes and it's right next to the beloved art museum. It also has a righteously awesome butterfly garden (you'll see it if you look in the direction of the museum from the park itself), and walking through it in the summer is legitimately like walking in a dream. It's quite lovely. One word of advice I can provide is that this park is also historically a not-so-good place to visit after nightfall, as most Springfield parks are. Get your recreational fix in before sunset and call it a day, unless you're with a group.

Phelp's Grove Park is always a winning park to hang out at, and I was most recently there for Yoga…read morein the Park. How perfect is Phelp's for that kind of thing? There is a concrete pad that fits dozens of people for the event. It was really perfect and I absolutely enjoyed myself and the Yoga. As for the rest of the park, there's a lot of room to run around and have fun for both kids and dogs, there are tennis courts and picnic spots, and you just really can't go wrong with an art museum bordering one side.