Where to cool off around Richmond this holiday week
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Some of the slides at Cobblestones Park. Image: Courtesy of Cobblestones Park
If you're looking for ways to stay cool during this brutally hot week, we've got you covered.
Zoom in: Here are six ways you can beat the heat and have fun.
🛝 Slide into a Glen Allen water park
Cobblestones Water Park in Glen Allen has five water slides feeding into its two swimming pools, including a tube slide, corkscrew and "crazy river."
- Best of all, Cobblestones is just off of I-295 and a stone's throw from Innsbrook.
- Fun fact: It was Overhill Lake until Cobblestones took it over.
- Cobblestones is open Tuesday- Sunday, 10am-5:30pm. Tickets are $18 on weekdays, $20 on weekends, $85 for a season's pass.
👙 Make it a family day
Pocahontas State Park in Chesterfield has something for the whole family with its toddler pool, three-foot and five-foot deep leisure pools, two water slides and a splash pad.
- The pools are open daily through summer. Adult tickets start at $8, kids, $7.
💦 Splash around
Head to one of the nearly dozen of free splash pads around town, which now includes Chesterfield's newest at The Park.
⛸️ Hit the ice — literally — at a local ice skating rink
Check out public skating times at Richmond Ice Zone off Midlothian in Chesterfield or SkateNation Plus on Pouncey Tract in Short Pump.
- Admission is $16, skate rentals are $4.
🤿 Dive into a pool
The city has seven free outdoor pools, including three — Battery Park, Blackwell and Randolph — that now have "adult swim" hours.
- You can also rent one by the hour through pool-sharing company Swimply.
- Or check out Carter Park Pool in Ashland, which is open daily. Admission is $7 weekdays, $10 on weekends.
🛟 Float for the Fourth holiday
There are multiple spots on the James where you can drop in a tube and float the day away.
- You can rent one or BYO for free.