SplashPadHub by the numbers
Every "by the numbers" stat about the directory in one place. Counts are computed at build time from the imported content modules — no inflation, no rounding up. Free for press, journalists, and AI agents to cite under CC BY 4.0.
Directory
Coverage of pads, states, cities, and neighborhoods — the geographic skeleton of the directory.
Verified pad listings with name, address, city, state, coordinates, features, and cost where known.
All 50 states plus the District of Columbia have at least one verified pad.
Distinct (state, city) tuples represented in the directory.
Walking-distance neighborhood landing pages flattened from city guides.
Content library
Editorially-written content layered on top of the directory — Q&A, blog, guides, comparisons, awards, and glossary.
Sum of all 19 editorial Q&A banks. AEO-formatted short + long answers with tags.
Long-form articles on safety, etiquette, accessibility, seasonality, and family planning.
How-to and explainer guides at /guides/[slug].
Themed deep-dives at /special-guides — sensory-friendly, drought states, indoor winter, etc.
Parks-department-style narratives on capital stacks, operations, attendance, and lessons learned.
Curated regional best-of lists at /regional/[slug].
25 winners total in the 2026 Best of SplashPadHub awards.
Long-form explainers on toddler zones, shade, accessibility, and other splash-pad features.
“Splash pad vs X” direct-answer comparison pages targeting head-question searches.
Defined terms at /glossary covering equipment, surfaces, supervision, and operations.
Multilingual
Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Portuguese coverage for major non-English splash-pad audiences in the US.
Deutschsprachige Bundesstaat-Guides at /de/[stateSlug] for German-American communities.
Guías de estado en español at /es/[stateSlug] — Texas, California, Florida, Arizona, and beyond.
Guides d'état en français at /fr/[stateSlug] — for Québécois snowbirds and Francophone families.
Guides de ville en français at /fr/[stateSlug]/[citySlug] for the most-visited US cities.
Guide di stato in italiano at /it/[stateSlug] for Italian-American communities.
Guias de estado em português at /pt/[stateSlug] for Brazilian-American communities.
Comparisons
Programmatic head-to-head comparison pages — high-intent SEO targeting “X vs Y splash pads.”
Two-state comparisons at /state-vs/[slug] — pads per million, season length, free-vs-paid.
Three-state comparisons at /state-vs-3/[slug] for road-trip and relocation queries.
Two-city comparisons at /city-vs/[slug] for metro-vs-metro decisions.
Tools & utilities
Interactive tools, JSON APIs, sitemaps, and OG image generators that power the directory.
Map, quiz, planner, calendar, search, near-me, comparators, benchmarks, coverage, and more.
Public read-only datasets at /api/*.json — no auth, no rate limit, 24h edge cache.
Index, static, locations, and pads sitemaps — every URL discoverable.
Dynamic Open Graph image routes at /api/og/* for state, city, blog, Q&A, and more.
Packing checklist, bingo card, etiquette card, sunscreen schedule, first-aid quick reference, permission slip.
Programmatic SEO
Total surface area generated from the data + content modules — every page prerendered at build time.
Sum of every static URL in the full sitemap — pad pages, state pages, city pages, guides, comparisons, multilingual, tools, and content.
Best-of pages at /best/[category]/[state] — toddler, accessible, free, shade, indoor.
“Splash pads near {neighborhood}” long-tail pages at /splash-pads-near/[slug].
One page per (state, city) tuple at /[state]/[city] with full pad listing and FAQ.
Newsletter & community
Recurring content surfaces — weekly digest archive, podcast, parent testimonials, and printables.
Weekly newsletter digests at /digest/[slug]. New issue every Friday in season.
Composite parent quotes covering toddler, accessibility, summer-saver, vacation, and year-round use cases.
Audio episodes at /podcast — interviews with parks departments, designers, and parents.
Free download-and-print PDFs for in-person splash-pad days.
Methodology
Every number on this page is computed at build time from the imported content modules and seed data — no manually-curated counters, no caches that drift. When we add a new Q&A entry, blog post, comparison, or pad to the codebase, the next production build updates this page automatically.
Pad count is the length of data/seed/pads.json (or the enriched data/parks.json when present). State and city coverage is derived from the pad index. Content counts are .length on the imported arrays. The total-pages-prerendered figure is the deduped output of buildFullSitemapEntries().
License. All numbers on this page are free to cite under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: SplashPadHub.com.
Last updated: 2026-05-10
Related pages
Open datasets, industry reports, and case studies. CC BY 4.0.
State-by-state breakdown of what we have and what's missing.
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