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I have lived in the Pittsburgh area for (almost) my entire life and I have NEVER been to Sandcastle, Pittsburgh’s “Hometown Waterpark”, until this past weekend!
Since we have Platinum season passes with Kennywood Park this year, admission into Sandcastle is included, so we figured it was high-time we checked our local waterpark out!
Sandcastle is a beautifully situated little waterpark, nestled right along the Monongahela River. It isn’t big – in fact it feels just slightly larger than Idlewild‘s waterpark – maybe the same size as a Great Wolf Lodge waterpark. The park doesn’t take up a large footprint, but it does a good job with the space it has. The Boardwalk area was just given a facelift and a lot of the slides seem freshly painted. We’ve never been there before to compare, but a lot of the park does seem like it was given some much needed TLC over the off-season.
Since we visited on Memorial Day, we expected the park to get busy. The first hour we were there was pretty slow, but as the day wore on, the park got busier and busier. The good news is though: since it isn’t a large park, a few hours was the perfect amount of time to feel like we did everything we wanted to do. As we were leaving mid-afternoon, the people were continuing to pour in!
Our kids had a BLAST at Sandcastle! They talked a mile-a-minute the whole way home and for the rest of the day about how much fun they had!
*Even though my phone is technically “water resistent”, whenever we’re in the water, I stick my phone in one of these waterproof cases. It just gives me peace of mind that some little kid isn’t going to bump into me & cause my phone to take a dive! https://amzn.to/3NKZJNO
[…] Last weekend was Memorial Day, and normally, we’d be at the Lake House. Since Derrick’s parents were coming for part of the weekend though, we stayed home.We’d had an absolutely exhausting week last week, so by the time Sunday rolled around, all we wanted to do was take a nap – and we did.But on Monday, we wanted to go DO something! So, we decided to do something new – something we’ve never done before! We went to Sandcastle – Pittsburgh’s very own waterpark! Believe it or not, we’ve never been to Sandcastle before – even though it’s a sister park of Kennywood and Idlewild. We have Platinum passes with Kennywood this year though, so that means we can get into Sandcastle for free – so we decided to go on Monday. We knew it would be busy, being a holiday, but we decided to give it a go regardless.We only stayed for a few hours – it’s a tiny little waterpark, so we did everything we wanted to do and then got out of there as the crowds were still pouring in (it was getting quite crazy). We had a lot of fun though – the kids had a blast!(If you missed it, I vlogged about our day here!) […]