Virginia Highlands Park (22202)

Virginia Highlands is a large park in Pentagon City with a variety of features.   It has two playground areas — one designed for younger kids (0-2, 2-5) and one designed for older kids (5-12).  Update: check out my review of the new sprayground!

The Little Kids Playground

The tot lot for younger kids is located close to the parking lot on S. Hayes park.  It is fenced, shady, and right next to the bathhouse and water fountain.  This playground features a large play structure, a sand area, and a set of swings (2 bucket, and 2 regular).

Play Structure

Sand Box

Swings

There is a good amount of bench seating in the play area.

Bathrooms

The tot lot is also close to the Aurora Hills Senior Center, the Aurora Hills Library, and the #5 Fire Station.

Highlands Park is huge, with several fields and other amenities like basketball courts, tennis courts, a volleyball court, even a new synthetic turf field.

Big Kid Playground

There is also a playground designed for older kids (5-12); it is a short walk across the park, closer to 15th St.  It gets more sun than the other playground, and was less populated, but my monkeys kids had fun climbing and sliding.

There is a reservable picnic pavilion, plenty of picnic tables, and charcoal grills in this area as well.

A nice paved path runs through the park, closer to the big kid playground, but not the tot lot.

All in all, Virginia Highlands  is a wonderful park with enough amenities to please all kinds of park goers.   All 3 of my kids had a great time there, and I suspect yours would too!