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Can someone tell me if the Rideau Spray Park is open and the hours. Went on the City of Brandon Website and couldn't find anything for 2018. What to take my family tomorrow night

The parks don't usually open till July.

Yup same as Trevor sayed not until July all the workers are University/high school students that are still in school  
 
Edited by dalehutchings, 2018-05-27 20:26:27

GGBoo said "Can someone tell me if the Rideau Spray Park is open and the hours. Went on the City of Brandon Website and couldn't find anything for 2018. What to take my family tomorrow night "

Last year they opened up on June 30th I imagine it'll be close to then this year as well.  
As for times if it's like last year it'll be 11-7 type deal for the season.

I wish they would open them for June too. Such a waste to only have them running for two months... its definitely hot enough now for them.

I was just saying they should open them the middle of May/June atleast on weekends.

I can understand not having the paddle pools open until July/August because they require staffing. But what I don't understand is why they can't just turn the spray parts on in May/June.  
 
Everywhere else we've been, including Winnipeg and Shilo, have the spray features on starting in May, on a timer, so they only operate certain times of day (10 a.m. to 8 p.m., for example).  
 
In places where they have an attached paddle pool (such as Central Park in Winnipeg, which we've been to in May), they simply leave the drains in the pool open so water doesn't accumulate. But that way, the spray part is open for hot days and can be used. The spray-only parks are unattended in most places anyway.  
 
I wonder how feasible it would be for the city to do something like that. Even if they just turn on 1 or 2 spray parks early (such as Stanley Park and the one on 1st Street, neither of which have pools), it would help a lot. There's been quite a few days already that I've wished the parks were open already. My SIL has brought her kids in Winnipeg to their local spray park 4 or 5 times already!!

I'm not sure about all the parks but the one on first street has private functions for the school kids (field trips) in the last week of school. Other than that nothing till after school is done.

This topic comes up every year, but yes like everyone else has stated- They open end of June/beginning of July. It would be nice if they opened them up (even on weekends) for June- but people complain about that every year & nothing changes so I don’t foresee that happening. If you see them open next month, it will because a school or daycare booked it for a private function and it is not open to the public!