Discovery Park

Peaceful and serene for walking and contemplating! Nice for families and dogs!!!

This is definitely NOT a kid friendly park. The design of the playground is apparently for much older kids, not for younger kids. Whoever designed the playground must hate kids.

Clean and new playground and park. Quiet, not crowded. Very close to Kentland marketplace restaurants.

This park needs more benches by the playground areas. The one with the slide only has one bench, the second one is facing the field with its back to the playground. Where are the other parents/adults supposed to sit and watch the kids (when we are not playing with them)? There could easily be a bunch more benches along the pathway.

The other play area has more seating (one bench and one picnic table) as well as rocks to sit on. I wish there was another swing instead of the four square. The main attraction is one round swing that kids have to wait on for long periods. More of these swings would be great.

Overall, the park seems like it was made to look good in design, but not practical for real life. The play areas are pretty to look at, but do not encourage imagination play and are awkward to use. The entrances to the hut slide are too thin on one side, and the other is difficult for little kids due to the huge gaps in the netting inside the hut. The metal slide is fun. Fast, unlike plastic slides. The climbing areas are okay, but don’t hold kids attention long. If the designers wanted to keep the park simple, add more swings and less areas where families need to bring equipment to use (four square, Gaga pit).

The “butterfly garden” is underwhelming. It is June and there are only two types of flowers. There is no grass, all clover and weeds. The park is kept clean and sidewalks clear. It isn’t a bad park, just has more potential than what it currently is.

Looks like this park was designed keeping the adults and kids under the age of 5 in mind. The trails/pathways are good for those who want to get their step counts but the play ground for the kids is very basic.

horrible. metal slide, which will be unusable when hot, too few places to play, and whatever are here are just too hard for kids. It may be ok for walking, but absolutely unusable for kids. Skip this and go to playground in soccerplex.

There was & is no parking. The nearest is, sure a few minutes, but as a new park being advertised as so family friendly, new and aimed at several ages, this was the furthest from it.
Two tiny areas of play equipment aimed at 8 months-2 years. The one slide they did have, after navigating through a very small enclosure with wide open netting. The suares were at least 8-16 inches apart. Then the child gets to the slide. A sheet of steel, I thought the burn marks on a child legs from a DMV Summer went out in the 80's. (Yes, I still have some of my own :-)
It will be a nice walking area, nice paths, in 5-10 years when those samplings mature to provide shade.

Disappointed

The newest park in Gaithersburg is absolutely a waste of space-time-energy and a total disappointment.The only challenge kids will have at this park is just trying to share the three items that this huge park has provided for them. AstraZeneca should not be proud of what they have accomplished here. Grade: D+

To have a pleasant time for your family go to ::
Mattie JT Stepanek , Greenbriar or Fallsgrove parks and playgrounds