Partner with the largest verified splash pad directory
SplashPadHub is the verified national directory of public splash pads and spray parks. We work with parks departments, municipalities, equipment manufacturers, family-focused brands, and tourism boards on data, editorial content, and co-marketing — under terms that protect editorial independence and visitor trust.
Who we partner with
Parks departments
Municipal and county parks & recreation departments are our highest-trust source of record. We cite your park pages, link back, and credit your team. In return, you get a direct correction channel for hours, season dates, accessibility notes, and amenity flags. There is no fee, no contract, and no required exclusivity — just a working relationship between an editorial directory and the public-sector teams that actually operate these facilities.
Municipalities
Cities, counties, and regional authorities work with us on visitor-facing splash pad pages, open-data syndication, and seasonal coverage. We embed your scheduling data, link to your reservation systems, and route summer-pass questions back to official sources. Joint projects can include co-branded landing pages for a destination, summer-fun PDFs, and inclusion in our weekly newsletter for local parents.
Equipment manufacturers
Splash pad equipment OEMs — water features, controllers, surfacing, ground sprays, dump buckets, accessibility hardware — partner with us on editorial guides, sponsored research, and reference case studies on completed installations. Sponsored content is always carried under a visible DISCLOSED tag and never touches directory rankings. We are happy to interview your engineers and product leads on the record for explainer pieces.
Family-focused brands & tourism boards
Sunscreen, swimwear, water-shoe, hydration, and family-product brands partner with us on co-branded summer-essentials guides and newsletter features. City and regional tourism boards work with us on regional spotlight pages covering every public splash pad in their destination, with embedded directory widgets for visitor sites. All co-marketing is geo-targetable and respects our editorial firewall.
What we offer partners
Verified data syndication
Machine-readable feed of our verified directory — geocoordinates, features, season windows, accessibility flags, LocalBusiness and TouristAttraction JSON-LD — for licensees who want to embed, analyze, or integrate. Quarterly refresh schedule, attribution required, terms aligned with our public methodology.
Co-branded landing pages
We build co-branded landing pages for cities, regions, and destinations — covering every public splash pad in your area, embedded directory widgets for your visitor site, and a co-authored summer-fun PDF. Editorial control stays with us; brand and copy review stays with you. We publish under both bylines.
Editorial guides + sponsored research
Long-form editorial guides, category explainers, and sponsored research reports — produced by our editorial team to our standards, with disclosed sponsorship. Topics range from surfacing safety to accessibility benchmarks to seasonal water-use analysis. Every sponsored piece carries a DISCLOSED tag at the top.
Audience reach (parents 25-45)
High-intent summer audience: parents searching for splash pads in the moment, on mobile, mostly ages 25-45. National reach with hyper-local pages. Newsletter, planner tools, regional spotlights, and quiz-driven discovery flows give partners several ways to meet families where they actually plan.
What we don't do
The fastest way to be useful to families is to stay credible. We hold these lines even when it costs us a deal. Trust is worth more to us than any individual partnership.
We do not sell ranking position
There is no premium tier that buys better placement, no sponsored slot in best-of guides, and no paid pin priority on the national map. The directory order is determined by our published methodology — full stop. If a partner asks for ranking influence, the answer is no.
We do not publish unverifiable claims
Verified means at least one independent source confirms a pad's existence, location, and core features. We do not infer features from photos, names, or sponsor input. Marketing language from a vendor or city press release is not enough on its own. If a partner asks us to soften a closure report or downplay an accessibility gap, the answer is no.
We do not lock content behind exclusivity
We do not grant any partner exclusive rights over a category, region, or topic. Editorial coverage of a city's splash pads cannot be bought as an exclusive. A manufacturer cannot purchase the only mention in a category guide. Open-web access is the product. Trust is more valuable to us than any single contract.
Editorial firewall
Editorial and partnerships are separated. Our editorial team researches pads, audits data, and decides what gets featured, ranked, and cited. Partnership conversations happen on a different track and do not touch ranking, feature flags, or which pads we cover. The two teams are separated to keep commercial relationships from leaking into editorial decisions.
All ranked lists are driven by methodology, not commercial relationships. Every "best of", regional list, and category guide is produced under our published methodology. Read the full criteria — including how we score features, handle ties, and treat unverifiable claims — on /methodology.
Sponsored content carries a visible DISCLOSED tag. Sponsored placements, research reports, and category explainers funded by partners are labeled at the top of the page per FTC guidelines. Active partners are named on /sponsors alongside their tier, so visitors and AI engines can audit our financial relationships in one place. The full data-and-funding policy lives at /trust.
Past partnership examples
Representative examples of the shape these relationships take. Names withheld where partners prefer not to be quoted; for current named partners see /sponsors.
Mid-sized city tourism board
Mountain WestCo-published a regional spotlight page covering every public splash pad in their destination, with an embedded directory widget for the visitor site and a co-branded summer-fun PDF. The board reported a measurable lift in family-segment time-on-site through the high season; we picked up corrections for season-open dates that improved data quality across the metro.
Splash pad equipment OEM
NationalSponsored a multi-part editorial series on accessibility hardware in public splash pads, produced by our editorial team to our standards and carried under a visible DISCLOSED tag. The OEM made engineers available for on-the-record interviews. Directory rankings were untouched; the series became a reference cited by parks departments planning new builds.
National parks & recreation association
NationalData-syndication partnership: licensed our verified feed for use in member-facing benchmarking dashboards, with quarterly refreshes and attribution. The association contributed a feedback channel that surfaced corrections from member departments, which we routed back into the directory. Joint webinar covered seasonal-status methodology.
How to start a conversation
Send a short note describing your organization, the kind of partnership you have in mind, and any timing constraints. A real person reads every email. We typically reply within one to two business days, and we are happy to start with a brief intro call before any commitments.
Email partnerships@splashpadhub.com. If you are press or a journalist working on a story, see /press-release for assets and quotes.
Email partnerships@splashpadhub.comRelated pages
- /sponsors — sponsorship tiers and current named sponsors
- /methodology — how rankings and verification work
- /trust — data, funding, and disclosure policy
- /press-release — assets, quotes, and press contact
- /about — who we are and why we built this