Kiddieland Amusement Park is a moderately-sized family-oriented theme and fun park designed to offer families and young visitors a fun-filled, traditional, and affordable experience that is appropriate and enjoyable for all ages. First founded in 1929, Kiddieland is currently notable as Chicagoland's oldest amusement park and also enjoys a terrific reputation as one of the very best traditional parks in the entire country.
As is the case with most amusement parks, the main draw for many potential visitors is the selection of over 30 different rides and attractions. All of the rides are family-appropriate, although there are specific collections of rides designed especially to accommodate small children or a child and a parent together. The rides built especially to be kiddie rides generally are capable of accommodating children about 54'' in height or shorter, but are considered safe for most children of even young ages. An especially popular ride at Kiddieland Amusement Park is the Little Dipper, well known in the area for being the very first coaster experience for hundreds of thousands of little ones in the Chicago area.
Another notable section of Kiddieland is the Volcano Playcenter, a play area that was specially designed to help promote proper juvenile motor development with enrichment activities such as net climbs, tube slides, ball crawls, and more. A kid-powered raft ride is an especially popular feature of this section of the park in particular. All of these activities are built into a realistic artistic representation of a volcano to create a fun, exciting, and whimsical atmosphere for the amusement of all visitors. Although the Volcano Playcenter is located within the park, special hours and schedules apply which can change on short notice due to weather conditions, so visitors who are especially interested in this set of attractions should contact Kiddieland directly or visit their website for a current schedule to better plan their visit.
For those who absolutely love midway games, Kiddieland has plenty of those to offer as well. Enjoy tried and true favorites such as the Clown Toss, the Bowler Roller, and plenty more. Then visit the extensive video arcade which includes a wide variety of different games ranging from the very latest video games to classics everyone knows and loves. When visitors are done playing, they are invited to visit the redemption center to cash in their tickets for fun and unique prizes to remember their visit by.
When it comes to time to take a load off and grab a bite to eat, park patrons of all ages will have their pick of all the traditional park favorites you would expect at Kiddieland's spacious shaded food court. Options include signature recipe pizza, hot dogs, corn dogs, hamburgers, ice cream, French fries, nachos, mozzarella sticks, and more. An especially nice perk is the self serve soda fountain where visitors can enjoy free, unlimited refills all day every day - a terrific way to beat the heat indeed.
