Edina has invested meaningfully in its family-facing recreation infrastructure, and it shows. Edinborough Park delivers year-round indoor play in a way few suburban facilities can match — an indoor park with a playground, pool, running track, and event space that makes a rainy day genuinely fun rather than a disappointment. When the weather cooperates, Centennial Lakes Park becomes the city's outdoor living room: paddleboats on the lake, paved walking loops for strollers and bikes, and a farmers market on summer Saturdays. The Edina Aquatic Center fills the summer outdoor recreation gap with a full waterpark experience. Families visiting Edina will find more to do here than they expected.
Edinborough Park — Indoor Adventure
Edinborough Park is Edina's signature family recreation facility — a massive indoor park housed under a soaring glass atrium that feels like a controlled-climate outdoor space. The park includes a full indoor playground with climbing structures, a lap and recreational pool, a running track, an open park area for free play, and event space used for programming throughout the year.
The indoor pool at Edinborough Park serves both leisure swimmers and lap swimmers, with dedicated family swim times that are popular with young children. The facility is year-round, which makes it especially valuable during Minnesota's long winters.
- Indoor playground — climbing structures suitable for a range of ages
- Indoor pool — lap lanes and recreational swimming
- Running track — elevated indoor track overlooking the park
- Special events — programming throughout the year
Centennial Lakes Park — Outdoor Family Fun
Centennial Lakes Park is Edina's most versatile outdoor recreation space for families. In summer, paddleboat rentals on the central lake are a perennial kid favorite. The paved walking and biking loop around the park is stroller-friendly and genuinely pleasant, and the open green space hosts the weekly Edina Farmers Market on Saturday mornings.
In winter, Centennial Lakes Park transforms into an outdoor skating destination. The lake's flat basin is used for skating when conditions allow, and the park's infrastructure — warming house, restrooms, adjacent parking — makes a family winter outing practical as well as fun.
Edina Aquatic Center
The Edina Aquatic Center is the city's outdoor waterpark facility, open during the summer months for lap swimming, recreational swimming, and waterpark-style fun. The facility includes slides, a lazy river, a leisure pool, and other water features that make it a genuine summer destination for families from across the metro.
Season passes are available and popular with Edina families. For visitors, day admission is available without a reservation during non-peak periods, though busy summer weekends benefit from arriving early.
