Help us reach more parents
SplashPadHub is grass-roots. There's no ad budget, no growth team, and no paid placement — just a small editorial group and a directory we want every American family to find on a hot afternoon. This page is a copy-paste kit so you can share it in 30 seconds.
Why share
SplashPadHub grows the way every honest local-information project grows: one parent tells another, a parks director adds their listings, a local reporter writes it up, a mom-group admin pins it for the season. We don't run ads, we don't pay for placement, and we don't take manufacturer money — which means word-of-mouth is the entire growth engine.
If sixty seconds of your time helps a hundred families find free water on a 95° day, that's a great trade. Pick whichever post, email, or embed below fits your audience and send it.
Pre-written posts
Five ready-to-copy social posts, sized for the platforms parents actually use. Tweak the first sentence to sound like you and ship it.
Hot summer? Save this:
SplashPadHub — a free national directory of every public splash pad in the US, with hours, fees, accessibility, and parent-reported notes.
5,000+ pads. All 50 states + DC. No paid placement.
https://splashpadhub.com
#splashpads #parentingOne of the quietest pieces of climate-adaptive infrastructure in America is the public splash pad — nearly 98% free, drowning rate functionally zero, and the lowest cost-per-child-hour cooling intervention a city can deploy.
We built SplashPadHub to make every one of them findable: 5,000+ pads, all 50 states + DC, with hours, fees, accessibility, and water-system type. Independent. CC BY 4.0. No paid placement.
If you cover families, parks, or climate, take a look — and please share with anyone running a parks department, a parenting group, or a local newsroom.
https://splashpadhub.comPosting this for the parent groups: SplashPadHub is a free directory of every public splash pad in the US — hours, fees, accessibility, what to expect, parent-reported notes.
It covers all 50 states + DC, costs nothing to use, and lets anyone submit corrections or add a missing pad.
If your kids have ever been stuck inside on a 95° day because you didn't know there was a splash pad two miles away, this is for you.
https://splashpadhub.comFree national directory of US splash pads — 5,000+ locations across all 50 states + DC, with hours, fees, accessibility, and parent notes. No paid placement, CC BY 4.0.
Save it for the next 95° afternoon.
https://splashpadhub.comIf you have small kids and live somewhere that gets hot, save this:
SplashPadHub — a free, independent directory of every public splash pad in the US. 5,000+ pads, hours, fees, accessibility, parent-reported notes. All 50 states + DC.
No paid placement. CC BY 4.0. Built by a small editorial team that just wants more families to find more cool water on more hot days.
https://splashpadhub.comEmail templates
Three templates for the three audiences that move the needle most: your parent group, your local parks department, and your local newsroom. Replace the bracketed fields with real names and send.
PTA, mom-group Slack, neighborhood listserv, daycare class email — anywhere parents already trade summer-survival tips.
Free splash-pad finder for the groupHi all,
Sharing a thing I just found that's been useful for our summer planning: SplashPadHub (https://splashpadhub.com).
It's a free, independent directory of every public splash pad in the US — hours, fees, accessibility, water-system type, and parent-reported notes. All 50 states + DC, no paid placement, no manufacturer money.
Two ways it might help us:
1. Searching by city/neighborhood to find pads we didn't know existed.
2. Filtering by toddler-friendly, accessible, or shaded.
If anyone has corrections to make or pads they want to add for our area, the site has a one-click submission form on every page.
— [Your name]City parks director, recreation supervisor, or municipal communications lead — anyone responsible for promoting your splash pad.
Your splash pad is on SplashPadHub — quick requestHi [Name],
I'm writing as a [resident / parent / local journalist / advocate] in [City]. I wanted to flag that your splash pad(s) are listed on SplashPadHub (https://splashpadhub.com) — a free, independent national directory used by parents, journalists, and tourism boards.
A few asks that take less than 10 minutes total:
1. Take a look at your listing(s) and confirm hours, fees (if any), accessibility, and address are correct. The site has a "Suggest an edit" link on every pad page — corrections go live within 24 hours.
2. If your department has additional splash pads or spray parks not yet listed, you can submit them at https://splashpadhub.com/submit. Free, no fees, no listing tiers.
3. If you have a city-tourism or parks page, SplashPadHub offers a free embeddable widget that auto-updates as the directory grows: https://splashpadhub.com/developers/embed.
The directory is CC BY 4.0, independent, and has no paid placement — listings, rankings, and editorial coverage cannot be purchased. If it would be useful, I'm happy to introduce you to the editorial team.
Thanks for everything your department does for families in [City].
— [Your name]
[Your role / context]Local newspaper, parenting publication, broadcast TV producer, or freelance reporter covering family / climate / parks beats.
Tip: free national splash-pad directory for summer coverageHi [Name],
Quick tip in case it's useful for summer programming.
SplashPadHub (https://splashpadhub.com) is the largest verified national directory of US splash pads — 5,000+ locations across all 50 states + DC, with hours, fees, accessibility, water-system type, and parent-reported notes. Independent, CC BY 4.0, no paid placement, no manufacturer money.
A few angles your readers/viewers might care about:
- Local: filter to your DMA and see how your city compares to peers on per-capita pad density and free access.
- Climate: splash pads are an underreported climate-adaptive infrastructure story — the lowest cost-per-child-hour summer cooling intervention a city can deploy.
- Public health: drowning rate at splash pads is functionally zero, in contrast to ~4,000 unintentional US drownings annually across all water settings (CDC).
- Equity: ~98% of the directory is free to the public — making splash pads functionally the most universally free public-water amenity in America.
Press kit (logos, fact sheet, pull-quotes, screenshots): https://splashpadhub.com/press-kit
Founder available for interviews: press@splashpadhub.com
Happy to help with custom data extracts or a co-branded chart for a story.
— [Your name]Embed code
Run a parenting blog, a tourism site, or a city-rec page? Drop a one-iframe embed of the splash pads in any US city — read-only, free, CC BY 4.0, no JS, no tracking.
Full docs and copy-paste snippets: /developers/embed.
Wear the brand
We don't run a swag store yet, but stickers are coming in 2027. If you'd like a small run for your parent group, parks department, or newsroom — or you want to be on the wait-list for the first sticker drop — drop us a line at merch@splashpadhub.com.
We're not collecting money for this. The 2027 stickers will be free, mailed at cost, and CC BY 4.0 like everything else.
Refer a parks department
If you know a parks director, recreation supervisor, or municipal communications lead who'd benefit from a free national directory listing and an embeddable widget, point them at our partners page.
/partners covers what we offer parks departments, what we don't (we don't sell placement, ever), and how to claim or correct a listing in under five minutes.
More ways to help
- Journalists: grab logos, fact sheets, and pull-quotes from the press kit.
- Developers and bloggers: embed a city widget via /developers/embed.
- Parks departments and tourism boards: /partners.
Everything on this page — posts, emails, hashtags — is licensed CC BY 4.0. Edit, remix, translate, and ship freely. Attribution: "SplashPadHub" with a link to splashpadhub.com.