Plenty of Indianapolis families know Westfield from a Grand Park parking lot. It’s worth staying after the last game. The city has a downtown plaza built around a creek, an all-inclusive playground the city says was the first of its kind in Indiana, a 29-acre nature park with a sledding hill and a library makerspace that charges only for materials. These picks run from free parks and trails to rainy-day spots and places teens will agree to go, then what’s coming up on the calendar. Hours and prices come from each venue’s own website.
Planning beyond Westfield? Our list of things to do in Indianapolis with kids covers the rest of the metro.
1) Grand Junction Plaza
Downtown Westfield’s park is built around Grassy Branch Creek, with a playground, the Great Lawn, an amphitheater and a meadow lawn. The Midland Trace Trail connects it to Quaker Park (No. 4). Most of the city’s free events happen here, including Trick or Treating in the Plaza and the Westfield in Lights tree lighting, and the Ice Ribbon (No. 13) sets up at the north end for the holidays.
- Address: 225 S. Union St., Westfield
- Hours: Sundays through Wednesdays 5 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursdays 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays 5 a.m. to 11:59 p.m.
- Cost: Free
- Parking: The garage at The Union at Grand Junction Plaza (first three hours free) and the public lots at Park and Poplar streets
Know before you go: The city’s rules say anyone who goes into the creek does so at their own risk. Skateboards aren’t allowed, and bikes are walked through the plaza, not ridden. The full list is on the Grand Junction Plaza rules page.
2) Simon Moon Park
Simon Moon Park covers 29 acres off 171st Street: a playground on accessible turf, a fishing pond with a pier, boardwalks, kayak rentals, a council circle with a fire pit and a pavilion with an amphitheater. When it snows, the sledding hill has a warming shelter next to it.
- Address: 3044 E. 171st St., Westfield
- Hours: Sunrise to sunset
- Cost: Free
Know before you go: The parking lot, trail, shelter and restroom are paved and connected. Kayak rental prices and season aren’t posted; the amenity list is on the Simon Moon Park page.
3) Freedom Trail Park
The city’s park page says the all-inclusive playground and sensory garden at Freedom Trail Park were the first of their kind in Indiana. The play area was designed with the Hamilton County Autism Support Group, so it leans on spinning and twirling features, the ramps are wide enough for two wheelchairs to pass and the swing bays have accessible swings. The sensory garden adds an interactive wind chime and vine-covered teepees.
- Address: 500 Deer Walk Trace, Westfield (the north parking lot is paved)
- Hours: Sunrise to sunset
- Cost: Free
Know before you go: The restroom is a portable one, and the trails beyond the play area are crushed limestone, which matters with a stroller or wheelchair. Details are on the Freedom Trail Park page.
4) Quaker Park
In summer, Quaker Park has Westfield’s splash park. The rest of the year the playground does the work, along with a Sona musical arch, a Born Learning Trail, a pickleball court and a Little Free Library. Shelters 1 and 2 are open to anyone using the playground, and the Midland Trace Trail runs from here to Grand Junction Plaza.
- Address: 17501 Dartown Road, Westfield; the entrance is behind the Public Safety Building at State Road 32 and Dartown Road
- Hours: Sunrise to sunset
- Cost: Free
Know before you go: The splash park, restrooms and shelters are reached by sidewalk from the parking lot. The city doesn’t post splash park hours or season. The amenity list is on the Quaker Park page.
5) Asa Bales Park
Asa Bales Park is the 13-acre park across from Westfield High School, with a playground on accessible turf, swings, a skate park, a fitness court and a natural amphitheater, all connected by a paved trail. It also holds some of the city’s history: an anti-slavery cemetery and the Rhodes Family historic marker.
- Address: 205 W. Hoover St., Westfield; a south entrance off Camilla Court has parking behind the car dealership on Main Street
- Hours: Sunrise to sunset
- Cost: Free
Know before you go: The paved trail reaches all three shelters, the playground, the fitness court, the restroom and the drinking fountain. Details are on the Asa Bales Park page.
6) Westfield Washington Public Library and Makerspace
The library’s downtown building on Westfield Boulevard is free, warm and open seven days a week. The children’s area has story times, a discovery zone, a puppet theater, puzzles, play tables and early-literacy computer stations. The Library of Things lends STEAM kits, from microscopes to bird-watching binoculars, and Paws to Read pairs kids with therapy dogs. Teens get their own room, study rooms and game nights. The Annie Gotwald Makerspace and STEM Lab inside offers its tools for the price of materials: 3D printing at 5 cents a gram ($1 minimum, or free with your own PLA filament), a Glowforge laser cutter and engraver, large-format printing and a recording studio. Its drop-in open hours are listed for ages 8 and up.
- Address: 17400 Westfield Blvd., Westfield; 317-896-9391
- Hours: Mondays through Wednesdays 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Thursdays through Saturdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays 1 to 5 p.m.
- Cost: Free; makerspace projects pay for materials only
Know before you go: Story times, family programs and makerspace open hours are on the library’s events calendar. Makerspace prices are on the makerspace page; email [email protected] to book time with the staff.
7) Carter’s Play Place
Carter’s Play Place is an inclusive indoor playground built for kids of all abilities, with adaptive equipment and sensory activities. There are no time slots or reservations, adults don’t pay and most of the kids playing are 1 to 6.
- Address: 1021 Kendall Court, Westfield (near U.S. 31 and State Road 32); 317-836-5510
- Hours: Tuesdays through Saturdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays noon to 5 p.m.; closed Mondays. Tuesdays and Thursdays 9 a.m. to noon are Kiddie Carter’s, for ages 4 and under.
- Cost: $18 play pass for ages 1 and up, $15 for each additional sibling, plus tax; required Carter’s socks are $3.50 and reusable. Adults are free, and the pass covers unlimited play that day.
Know before you go: Outside snacks are fine at the lobby tables, and coffee and popcorn are free. Calmer Carter’s runs Tuesday evenings by RSVP; text 317-699-3842. It closes Thanksgiving and the day after, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; the full list is on the Carter’s Play Place hours page.
8) Droplight Grand Park Sports Campus (formerly Grand Park)
Droplight Grand Park Sports Campus, which everyone still calls Grand Park, is 400 acres of youth sports: 34 multipurpose fields, 26 baseball and softball diamonds and a 377,000-square-foot Events Center. On a tournament weekend you already know where it is. The rest of the year it’s home to TreeRunner (No. 14), the city’s summer events such as Touch-A-Truck and Westfield Rocks the 4th, and the Whale of a Sale children’s consignment sale in the Events Center, next up in March.
- Address: 19000 Grand Park Blvd., Westfield; 317-804-3010
- Cost: Free to walk the campus; events and tournaments set their own admission
Know before you go: The campus map and calendar are on the Grand Park website.
9) Lucky Putt at Stick & Hack Westfield
Across 191st Street from Grand Park, Stick & Hack Westfield has an indoor mini golf course where the putter keeps score: you scan in, play 12 challenges and the system tracks every shot. There are no reservations; it’s first come, first served. Parkside Bar & Grill is in the same building.
- Address: 10 E. 191st St., Suite A, Westfield; 463-622-4499
- Hours: Tuesdays through Thursdays 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sundays 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; closed Mondays
- Cost: Juniors $8 weekdays, $9 weekends; adults $11 weekdays, $15 weekends. The site doesn’t post the junior age cutoff.
Know before you go: Putters and balls are provided. Check the wait on the Lucky Putt Westfield page before you go.
10) Birdies
Birdies is outdoor mini golf on State Road 32, with 18- and 36-hole rounds and a restaurant on site. Kids 12 and under pay less.
- Address: 632 E. State Road 32, Westfield; 317-706-4906
- Golf hours: Sundays through Thursdays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
- Cost: Ages 12 and under $7.75 for 18 holes, $13.50 for 36; adults $10.25 and $18.50; seniors $9.50 and $17
Know before you go: Both courses are outdoors and the site doesn’t post a winter schedule, so call before a cold-weather trip. Prices are on the Birdies mini golf page.
11) iBeach
iBeach is beach volleyball year-round, with six outdoor sand courts and four indoor ones for the cold months. Junior programs are grouped by grade, kindergarten through fourth, fifth through eighth and ninth through 12th, with clinics, seasonal camps, training and weekend 2v2 tournaments. Families can rent a court online.
- Address: 750 E. 181st St., Westfield; 317-530-3005
- Cost: Court rental prices aren’t posted; junior schedules and rentals are on the iBeach juniors page
12) Monon Trail and Midland Trace Trail
Two of the HamCo Hubway’s paved trails meet in Westfield. The Monon runs north from Carmel through Westfield, past Grand Park and on toward Sheridan, and it crosses State Road 32 on a bridge, so riders don’t meet the highway at street level. The Midland Trace runs east and west: on the Westfield end it links Quaker Park and Grand Junction Plaza through downtown, a stroller walk with a playground at each end, and heading east it ends at the Hazel Dell Trailhead in Noblesville, which has restrooms, parking and a bike repair station.
- Cost: Free
- Maps: The HamCo Hubway trail maps show both routes and the connections
13) Ice Ribbon at Grand Junction Plaza
Each holiday season, Westfield sets up the Ice Ribbon, a skating loop on synthetic ice (the city calls it Glice) at the north end of Grand Junction Plaza. Last season’s sessions were 90 minutes, reserved online, with skate rental included. Season dates, session times and prices for 2026-27 have not been posted yet.* The one confirmed date is Westfield in Lights, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2026, when the rink runs three special sessions (fee applies). For rinks with a posted season, see our guide to ice skating in Indianapolis.
- Location: North end of Grand Junction Plaza, 225 S. Union St., Westfield
- Updates: The city posts skating news on the Westfield Parks programming page and its Facebook and Instagram
*The Ice Ribbon’s 2026-27 season has not been posted yet. We will update as soon as it is announced.
14) TreeRunner Grand Park (Seasonal)
TreeRunner is a ropes course and zip line park inside Grand Park, with eight aerial trails across four difficulty levels, for ages 7 and up. First-timers start on the yellow trails and work up; the black course is part of the three-hour climb only. It fits between games on a tournament weekend, and the fall season runs through Sunday, Nov. 29, 2026.
- Address: 19000 Grand Park Blvd., Westfield; enter off 186th Street and park in Lot G; 317-667-1613
- Season: Fall hours run through Sunday, Nov. 29, 2026
- Cost: Two-hour Starter or three-hour Classic climbs from $44 Mondays through Thursdays and $48 Fridays through Sundays; Night Forest evening climbs from $44 on select dates
Know before you go: Open days change through the season, so check the booking calendar for dates and start times. Details are on the TreeRunner Grand Park hours and pricing page.
15) SKYLAKE Adventures (Sheridan)
SKYLAKE Adventures is just north of Westfield in Sheridan. In summer it’s a lake park with inflatable water obstacles and a beach. In winter it becomes a snow park, with snow tubing down what it calls Hamilton County’s highest point, an ice rink, a three-story ropes course, a holiday light trail and a vendor village. General admission covers the village and the light trail; the activities are add-ons. SKYLAKE’s Facebook page puts the vendor village at Friday, Nov. 27, through Thursday, Dec. 24, 2026, and its FAQ expects the tubing hill to open around Thanksgiving, but the winter opening date, hours and prices have not been posted yet.*
- Address: 22105 Dunbar Road, Sheridan
- Parking: $15 per vehicle
Know before you go: SKYLAKE requires reservations and online waivers, and kids under 16 need an adult with them. Updates are on the SKYLAKE website.
*SKYLAKE’s winter opening date, hours and prices have not been posted yet. We will update as soon as they are announced.
Here’s what’s on the calendar in Westfield over the next few weeks, from the city, the library and the places above. Westfield’s official Halloween trick-or-treat hours are on our list of Indianapolis trick-or-treat times.
Coming Up in Westfield
Family events in and near Westfield, updated daily
The traditions to plan around: Trick or Treating in the Plaza in late October, then the Westfield in Lights tree lighting at Grand Junction Plaza in early December with Santa photos at the library the same weekend and the Ice Ribbon through the holidays. Summer brings the Jams at the Junction concerts and Westfield Rocks the 4th at Grand Park.
Related Article: Free Holiday Festivals in Indianapolis
How to Plan Your Westfield Day
- Downtown morning: The playground and creek at Grand Junction Plaza, a walk on the Midland Trace to Quaker Park, then lunch downtown on Main Street.
- Rainy day: Carter’s Play Place for the little ones, then the library’s children’s area, or the makerspace’s open hours for ages 8 and up.
- Tournament weekend: Between games, a climb at TreeRunner (through late November) or a round of Lucky Putt across 191st Street.
- Big kids and teens: A rented court at iBeach, then 36 holes at Birdies while the weather holds.
- Early December: Santa photos at the library, then Westfield in Lights at the plaza the same weekend, with a lap on the Ice Ribbon.
- Winter: The sledding hill at Simon Moon Park when it snows, the Ice Ribbon once its season posts and SKYLAKE’s tubing hill and light trail just north.
Next door, our guides to things to do in Carmel with kids and things to do in Noblesville with kids pick up where this one ends.
