Whetstone Park, Columbus, Ohio

Whetstone Park in the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio is a large city park! It’s home to the Columbus Park of Roses, a prairie, multiple sports courts and fields, a creek, shelter houses and an updated playground!

Adjacent to Whetstone Park is the Whetstone Community Center (with its own playground) and the Whetstone Branch of Columbus Metropolitan Library, so you can plan a visit to the library and two playgrounds to make an outing out of it!

  • Address: 3923 N. High St. Columbus, OH 43214
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Features of the playground at Whetstone Park include:

A play structure for older kids with three slides and lots of climbing elements

A large play structure at Whetstone Park with several slides.

Including a double, divided slide for racing!

A double slide at Whetstone Park.

This play structure has interactive elements on it and lots of different ways to get on the play structure by climbing.

The main playground equipment at Whetstone Park.

A separate climber/monkey bars

Monkey bars at Whetstone Park.

Animals to climb on including a seal and panda . . .

A play seal and panda to climb on in the park.

dinosaur and camel . . .

A dinosaur and camel to climb on on the playground.

and a gorilla and elephant!

A tire swing in front of a play gorilla and elephant on the playground at Whetstone Park.

A tire swing

A tire swing at Whetstone Park.

A small set of swings including 2 toddler bucket swings and an accessible swing

A swing set at Whetstone Park in Clintonville.

The playground equipment below isn’t new. It’s made for kids ages 5-12 and has some unique elements for balancing and climbing plus a small slide.

A smaller play structure at Whetstone Park.
A boy on the playground at Whetstone Park.

Make sure to visit the Park of Roses when you’re in Whetstone Park! Peak season is May and June but there are blooms throughout the whole summer.

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