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Atlantis Play Center Garden Grove

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Atlantis Play Center in Garden Grove has been a favorite place for parents to take kids for generations. The four acre park is designed to look like the lost city of Atlantis, has been entertaining kids since it opened in June 1963.

The children’s play structures include sea serpents and concrete animals. The most popular attraction for kids is the dragon slide.

The center is divided up into different play zones with lots of shady resting places. Atlantis Play Center is the way children's parks should be. Lots of open space, clean restrooms, imaginative places to play and safe. Bring your kids for a day of play or a birthday party celebration.

Adults are not allowed without kids, and kids are not allowed without adults. There is a large picnic table area for groups. Birthday parties can be hosted in the birthday pavilion where you will find King Triton's throne.

Admission: $1 for ages two and older (adults also) Children under two are free. This is one place no child ever forgets, and as an adult, will return with their children to enjoy the Atlantis play center again. The play center is best for kids 2 - 7 who will have a fun day at the lost city of Atlantis.

Atlantis Play Center Dragon Slide
Atlantis Play Center Dragon Slide
 
The structures at Atlantis Play Center were created by Benjamin Dominguez who was born was born in Guanajuato, Mexico in 1894. Benjamin blended the artistic medium of his Mexican heritage and vision of children's active play space of the 1950's United States.

Atlantis wasthe theme of the Garden Grove pakr and the city hoped would put them on the map and simultaneously satisfy the need of the city's youth population. With Dominguez, the city planned an enclosed recreational facility to feature Dominguez's unique and imaginative work

Benjamin Dominguez created a serpent slide that wound down a hill and an opened-mouth whale whose tongue was a slide for children. These works did not just allow children to climb on the artist's imagination, now they were invited to wander in his imagination.

Benjamin Dominguez died in 1974 at the age of 80. He was buried in South San Gabriel next to the son that brought him to this country.

Atlantis Play Center 13630 Atlantis Way Garden Grove, CA 92844 (714) 892-6015

Hours of Operation: Tuesday through Friday: From 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Saturday: From 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sunday: From 12:00 noon to to 4:00 p.m. Hours may vary, call ahead to confirm they are open.
 

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