Arlington Heights Park
Silver City, Milwaukee
3429 W Pierce St, Milwaukee
Arlington Heights Park is located in the Silver City neighborhood in Milwaukee. This park, which was revitalized through the MKE Plays Initiative, has so much to offer! Its location almost underneath the 35th Street Bridge adds extra excitement, and the playground has it all.
The fenced play area includes an obstacle-course style section with climbing wall, spiderweb, tall slide, monkey bars and plenty of climbing bars and places to balance and dangle.
The park also has swings (one infant, one accessible, two standard), a sand area, and a smaller playground with slides as well as an awesome set of low-down monkey bars perfect for early learners. A third play area offers a hanging spinner, and exercise equipment-like structures including a balance beam, rolling log and hanging bars.
The park has trees for shade, along with a boardwalk through a landscaped area with plants and large rocks which my kids love to climb on and explore - don’t miss the balance beam logs running through as well! There are three benches with trash cans nearby along the path, as well as a built in picnic table with benches under a tree near the smaller playground. No bathrooms or drinking fountains are available. The terrain beneath the play structures is loose synthentic rubber “wood” chips. There is sidewalk that runs through to the boardwalk, but not a lot of space for biking or scooting.
Bonus lookout spot and slide!
The park includes a large grassy area for running around, and don’t miss the stairs up to an overlook with a bonus slide down!
This park is located an easy four block walk from the Menomonee Valley Urban Ecology Center, the entrance to the Hank Aaron State trail that leads to Three Bridges park, and the beautiful murals painted there. There are also murals under the 35th street Bridge at both ends of the park. Parking is plentiful under the bridge as well as on Pierce.
