Things To Do & places to visit With Your young kids & Toddlers In Pensacola Florida
Pensacola, Florida, is loaded with super fun places to take toddlers and things to do in the area that toddlers will surely enjoy! Here a few of the top things and places in Pensacola you will want to take your toddlers to have fun!
This is a very nice toddler oriented indoor play place that is loaded with fun things to do for your toddler and children.
Located behind Party City on Davis Highway in a strip center next to Hobby Lobby and Books a Million in Pensacola.
This place packs a lot in its space like giant inflatable slides, bounce moonwalks, inflatable basketball court, inflatable soccer kick and football throw zone, video games, giant blocks, foam cube pit, kiddie playhouses, magnet boards, lite bright creation boards, giant connect four, birthday party rooms, serving beverages and light foods also! Very clean facility with spotless restrooms and very friendly staff and management.
There are so many child and toddler interest things in this place it can keep your toddler busy for hours. Things to both challenge their skills, wear them out, and work their imagination.
I consider this place very special needs and autism friendly environment also as my autistic children love it!. Very affordable with convenient hours daily.
Located in: Village Oaks - 6241 N Davis Hwy suite d, Pensacola, FL 32504
Mon-Fri 10am - 7pm Sat 9am - 7pm and Sun 9am - 5pm
Phone: (850) 417-4692
Located next to JC Penny and Texas Roadhouse Restaurant on Davis Highway in Pensacola. This place is geared for toddler fun with dozens of fun games and indoor rides that the toddlers in your life will delight in!
Known for good pizza, salad bar and other fun fare you can eat, play games, ride rides and enjoy the many video screens of fun music videos, cartoons and crazy comedy clips from the many notable characters that we have known to love like Chuck E. Cheese, Munch, Pasquale and the rest of the Chuck E Cheese gang. Many games give tickets to trade for great prizes.
Very affordable and fun family atmosphere. The staff and management are friendly, helpful and courteous. The facility is very clean and the restrooms are well maintained,They also have a special needs and autism special play time for those with sensory issues every Sunday.
Location: 7350 Plantation Rd, Pensacola, FL 32504
Sun-Thur 11am - 9pm Fri 11am - 10pm and Sat 10am - 10pm
Phone: (850) 476-7724
Located on 9 mile Road in a strip center near UWF this indoor playground is known for real fun indoor toddler play time!
This place features a really nice climbing tube and tunnel play zone that sports 3 very nice tall slides, a really nice ball pit zone, a fun water bed type play zone, puzzle and game zone, nursing zone for mothers and a special infant and toddler play area.
There are many comfy chairs for relaxing while the kids play as well as cafe tables for the enjoyment of the beverages and light snacks they offer. The cost is affordable and the place is super clean.
The restrooms were very clean and well equipped with changing tables, baby wipes and other amenities. The staff is friendly and outgoing, helpful and courteous. Their hours are daily and flexible. Overall a very fun place worth visiting.
Location: 875 E 9 Mile Rd, Pensacola, FL 32514
Mon-Wed 9am - 5pm Thurs - Fri 9am - 7pm Sat Closed and Sun 12pm - 3pm
Phone: (850) 435-4846
Located on West Spencerfield Road in Pace Florida right outside of Pensacola is this gem of a park that is a toddlers and even bigger kids joy
This park is big and full of the latest and newest fun playground rides and activities. It is special needs friendly with special needs swings and other ride and sensory type swings to entertain and accommodate special needs.
It has a really nice 3 story climbing tower that is safe and enclosed from falls with giant twisting slides at the top! This place is sure to wear out even the most hyper of kids! This is probably the nicest most well equipped park in the Pensacola area.
There is so much here it is sure to provide hours of free toddler and kid fun! The grounds are clean and well maintained and can be rented for parties and functions. Hours are daily from dawn to dusk.
Location: 5417 W Spencer Field Rd, Pace, FL 32571
Monday - Sunday 7am - 7pm everyday
Phone: (850) 983-1940
Located near Perdido Key Florida on Gulf Beach Highway, just outside of Pensacola is this one of a kind fun kids park that toddlers can thoroughly enjoy.
Open from dusk to dawn daily, this park is magnificent with its fun climbing towers and swings, tubes, slides, tire swing, family swings and more.
There are separate toddler play zones with their own set of special needs swings and other fun playground rides and activities. It is available to rent for parties and has a nice covered area with picnic tables.
This place even has a separate nature trail maintained by the boy scouts that is a fun side activity as you walk through the shaded tree canopy discovering the local flora and fauna.
Location: 10004 Gulf Beach Hwy, Pensacola, FL 32507
Sat-Thurs 7am - 5pm Friday 3pm - 5pm
Phone: (850) 475-5220
our local amusement and water slide park this place is located at the intersection of W street and Pensacola Blvd/Highway 29 next to the Rave Theaters and KIA Dealership. They really pack a lot of fun stuff in one spot you can't go wrong taking kids there of all ages.
This place is great fun for toddlers and the whole family especially if you come during the warmer time of year when the water park is open. They have a very cool park with a lazy river circling around most of the park and you can pretty much float for hours if you really wanted to.
Or you can challenge the many water slides they have both single and double tube slides and giant high single person slides that are several stories high.
There is a toddler slide and wading pool splash pool zone that has many cute designed water characters like a crocodile slide, an elephant slide, a mini water slide, water squirters and much more.
There is another nice stair climb slide area with 3 fun but smaller more mild slides for all ages and a very large wading area leading into a part where you can try to keep you balance crossing the pool on floating pads with ropes to assist you from falling.
There is also great food and drink offered outside as well as good music playing while you play.
Inside Sams you have a great climbing play zone, 2 very nice inflatable jumpers, and a really awesome indoor arcade giving tickets on most games that are a lot of great fun and also good food and drink offered.
On Friday night they offer a really tasty buffet. Sams is available for parties
There are also pool tables, video games. a laser tag, a singing karaoke recording booth, a train, large mini golf range, 2 really nice go kart tracks, Ferris wheel, tilt a whirl, frog jumps, bumper boats and many other fun rides and activities.
The arcade features lots of ticket giving games that can be traded in for cool great prizes. Prices are reasonable considering the level of great entertainment offered in one place.
Location: 6709 Pensacola Blvd, Pensacola, FL 32505
Sun-Thurs 11am - 8pm Fri 11am - 9pm and Sat 11am - 9pm
Phone: (850) 505-0800
This is the areas main indoor shopping mall experience with great stores like Belk, Dillards and most of the more popular chain stores featured in most malls of America. What is unique about Cordova Mall is they have some unique activities inside. If something I mention is not available then I am sure they have something in its place just as cool. These guys really know hop to operate a fine mall.
You can rent these giant stuffed animals on wheels and drive them inside the mall! Very fun! Also, there is an indoor “GLOW GOLF” Mini Golf Park! There is also a new ESCAPE ROOM feature.
There are lots of great food places too like Red Robin, Sbarro and many more! They also have 2 spots with old style grocery store type kiddie rides like a 4 wheeler motorcycle ride and an Ice Cream Truck and many more! There is also a small 3 child Merry Go Round ride that is very nice and only a dollar a ride.
They also have a Build A Bear Workshop Kiosk that the kids really like as they get to make their own stuffed animal! There is so much to do here that you can make a day of it just in this one building.
The Mall also features many 15-60 minute massage kiosks and massage chairs throughout the walking areas for the toddler's parents enjoyment.
Location: 5100 N 9th Ave, Pensacola, FL 32504
Mon-Sat 10am - 9pm Sun 12pm - 6pm
Phone: (850) 477-7562
Nestled together right next to the Navarre Beach Bridge is that community's neat Splash Pad featuring several ways for your kid and toddler to enjoy themselves getting wet! Right next to it is a very nice park and playground featuring toddlers and older kids play areas and equipment.
These attractions are both fun and easy on the budget as it is a free experience. All the equipment is in good shape and the whole area has white beach sand as the surface.
Restrooms are available on the premises. There are nice pavilions and picnic areas for rent for parties or just there to populate for free when no one is renting them. You are right on the intercoastal waterway beach and it has a beautiful walking path along the seawall and among other natural beauty of the area
This area is situated in easy walking distance of eateries and attractions too. You can't go wrong checking this place out! Have fun.
Location: 8513 Navarre Pkwy, Navarre, FL 32566
Mon-Sun 9am - 10pm everyday
Phone: (850) 983-1940
Zoo-How lucky we are in this area to have such a wonderful zoo! The Gulf Breeze Zoo is a brilliant gem of a zoo that all are sure to enjoy! It is both beautifully landscaped, populated with all the animals you would want to see at a zoo and well organized.
The Zoo boasts Gorilla, Lion, Tiger, Elephant, Giraffe, Monkeys, a super giant Alligator and so much more cool critters.
There is a first class gift shop, some great snack and dining areas, a really cool train ride experience throughout the zoo with views of many of the zoo animals, and a very neat raised boardwalk walking area that culminates with a view of the Gorilla island and overlooks the massive pond that is populated with hungry turtles that are used to being fed snacks as they come up to below where humans are waiting for a treat.
There are affordable feeding stations for feeding certain of the animals. The staff is knowledgeable and very friendly and helpful! Although not a cheap zoo it is worth every penny as it is a great zoo experience they give.
Location: 5701 Gulf Breeze Pkwy, Gulf Breeze, FL 32563
Mon-Sun 9am - 5pm everyday
Phone: (850) 932-2229
One of the most beautiful beaches in the world, our beach boasts soft sugar white sands whose beauty is unique and lovely.
We actually have 2 beaches there, a sound side and a gulf side. The sound side is nestled with picnic pavilions and a very cool boardwalk area populated with shops, eateries and other entertaining ventures.
There is a neat pier attached to the boardwalk that goes out pretty far in the water and you can take bread or other food and throw it to the fish and watch them come up to eat.
On the gulf side you are actually swimming in the Gulf of Mexico! The waves are small and gentle but fun to swim against. Lifeguards are on duty. There are many shops and eateries and a mini golf, restaurants, lodging and many other fun things situated right around all this great beach.
There is also the beach fishing pier that goes out for over a hundred fifty feet into the gulf to fish and walk on. It is fun to watch people fish and bring in all kinds of unique seafood.
There is a lot more to do at the beach also like renting Jet Skis or wave runners, parasailing, sailboat rental, scooter rental and much more.
Location: Pensacola shores of Gulf of Mexico
A visit to Fort Pickens is a good time also. If you like history and old war sites Fort Pickens is a jewel of a civil war site. Situated on sugar white beaches with beautiful sand dunes, there are many em-battlements and structures of war that still exist and are able to be toured.
It is a fact that Geronimo the famous Apache Indian outlaw was jailed here and he escaped becoming a part of greater history for our area.
Here is also the Ft. Pickens fishing pier which is situated right on the pass between the bay and gulf and the fishing is fantastic.
The views here are awesome as you can see for miles around and it is all very beautiful.
Location: 1400 Fort Pickens Rd, Pensacola Beach, FL 32561
Monday - Sunday 5am - 9pm everyday
Phone: (850) 934-2600
Across the pass from Fort Pickens is Perdido Beach. This barrier island beach has the same sugar white sands as Pensacola Beach and has many amenities like pavilions, picnic areas, clean restrooms, good adequate parking and much more. There are lots of great restaurants, shopping places and fun sites all around.
The kids will Love this unique fun beach place. You can rent a jet-ski or waverunner, go fishing, go parasailing, visit an arcade and much more.
Perdido Key has several recreation areas and is home to the Gulf Islands National Seashore where you can find some awesome sea shells and maybe see a few wildlife animals such as sea turtles, gulls, gray foxes, blue herons and much more. You may also want to check out the self-guided nature trails too.
Location: Between Pensacola, Florida and Orange Beach, Alabama
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