Reviews of Skeleton Park (Park)

Michelle Poole

This is a fantastic park for kids to play at. Thought it would be better. And to top it off. I didn't even see one skeleton

Stanley Smith

It's a quiet well shaded park...with bathrooms

Richard Bowlby

Nice central park

Cindy Addley

Found a picnic table to have our dinner at. The park is very clean

Rob Tanzola

Great music festival.

TranquilTracy Of TracysTranquilCreations&Scents

Skeleton park has been a part of Kingston since before it was named Kingston. It has a very unique yet ery and scarey past which you can read about on one of the few plaques placed in and at the edges of the park. It is also said to be one of the SCARIEST parks in Kingston. Personally i have never seen any ghosts or eery happenings here at night, but if feeling like your not alone when there is no one to actually been seen anywhere and the hair on the back of your neck standing up on end, is any indication of there being ghostly haunts here then yes I have felt this way many a times after dark in this park. The play ground is great. Providing activities for every age and stage of childhood, as well as areas to stretch out in the grass and read your favorite book, or simply look up at the clouds and day dream. Any way you look at it not stopping by this park to read about its history and enjoy its natural beauty would be a crying Shame.

Debra Osborne

Spooky but fun.

Talie Mac

Big park lots of room for whatever

Darlene Howard

Had a quiet lunch here.

Scott Meaney

Great downtown park. Also knows as Skeleton Park because it used to be a cemetary in the 1800s! Don't worry all the graves were relocated a lot time ago!

Doug Mason

Nice park, good playground but kids will need supervision

Kirk Hoadley

Just what you need all the time. Lots of fun and a great place to tell your favorite ghost haunts.

Brandon Cooper

Wonderful, large family park with mostly shade due to huge, old shade trees. Hosts numerous events, exhibits & gatherings. Nice play structure for children as well. One of the nicest parks downtown in Kingston in general.

Randy Emmons

The graves that were moved further out of town were placed in Cataraqui Cemetery. At the time it was about 4 miles from town.

Brian Siverns

Great spot in the city. Free music was really great. Lots of sun and shade.

Carrie Bissonnette

Don't you just love art festivals

Sean Ivall

Great place to enjoy the morning or afternoon with the family. The people there are always very nice to be around as a public park it really is one of our family's favorites not only for the family's around but nice location as well, it's always very clean

Gordon Lambie

This disconcertingly named park is a very pleasant public space with a nice playground

Hannah Ellsworth (PostShyHannah)

Lots of great local festivals here, as well as some spooky history. A great place for families to bring kids, and a hot spot for Pokemon Go players.

Erick Taboada

Great for walk and kids play

José A

(Translated) Historical park (Original) Historique parque

Kathy Jensen

My granddaughter loves the park.

Alan Scott

Beautiful historic park nestled in downtown Kingston. Playground equipment along with plenty of space for a picnic or a sit in the park.

GL B

Just seen this park on the tv show ghostly encounters

Jacob Dey

Great park! Has a little building with washrooms, which are about as nice as you could expect.

Marie Sara Jasmine Kendall

Great trees.

Zed Dean

Many tales and stories are told in this little park, but it tells a story of a Canadian community، who lost the loved one, it caused USA diplomatic crisis once...

Nicole Gazzellone

Love the new play structures

Nina Kerr

It was redone a few years back and the city did a great job.. Theres few different climbers to play on and swings to swing on and my daughter just LOVES this park

Dan Lemire

It's a park

Donna Weber

It is a small but just right size park for the area it is in. There is a wade there with a life guard and a small play area for the little ones to play. A city hired program in the summer for kids to have doing crafts and games. Not to many picnic tables but there is plenty benches to sit on and relax. Between summer to winter there is plenty of little things going on for all ages.. from two skating rinks .. a movie in the park ..events from the arts to plays..

Brian S

Just a chill little park.

buddhadeb chakrabarty

great for children

Oliver Bettney

Great park, love the SPAF production in the summer!

David Timan

Known locally as Skelton Park due to the large number of people burried here early in Kingston's history, this park has become the central point for a vibrant young community north of Princess Street

agnes maczynska

The city takes care to keep the play area well maintained, cleaned and the sand even gets raked to make sure its soft and free of garbage.

HDSHANSEN GAMING

One of the best parks in kingston

John Miller

Well kept park

Tony Forbes

Historic typhoid mass grave

Angie Dee

It been a while sence I was there

Eric Fox

Amazing little park. Alot of history here.

LaurelE

My favourite park.

Matthew Sandman

Read up on the history before visiting and then come after dark. Kids seemed to love running round the small play areas. Knowing a little about the place really adds to the spooky atmosphere. Free on street parking is easy to come by.

Ethan Heming

Great place to sit and relax.

Elijah Jones

They've improved this park a lot since I was a kid

vicki roberts

No lights

Shari Richard

A wonderful shaded family park, with huge trees, play areas for the kids, space to throw a ball for the pup and perfectly placed benches to keep an eye on the whole family♡ Not to mention the great history and some spooky stories associated with this...well, it is called "Skeleton" Park, after all, isn't it?....!!!

Allan Good

A city kept park close to downtown. Reasonably well kept.

Ethan Jenkins

Pretty nice historical park close to downtown. Nice place for a relaxing stroll or a picnic.

Corky Coates

Some sketchy people...

g blekkenhorst

Yes good very good chock full of parkyness

Chris Kingston

Bestpark in the city

Scott Malkinson

Had a great time playing ball with my nephew.

Bushy

Great concerts

sandra mahoney

Nice community

Adam Johnathan

Nice park and a very beautiful park as there are many parks here in Kingston this is a very beautiful place. Great for a family day or picnic if you are wanting to have. This park is well maintained and has lots of shade provided by the trees. The city does a great job keeping this place nice for anyone to visit and bring the whole family if you want to. Always a nice place to ride bikes or walk every time I visit it's always a nice experience.

Andria Kidd

Beautiful park. I wouldn't advise letting children use the washrooms without close adult supervision. There is a lot of drug use that occurs in that park and unfortunately not everyone is mindful of the small children the park is intended to be used by!

Peter Hodkinson

Magical, Haunted.

Abdo Alhussein

I liked it

Cody Higgins

Can't go wrong with Skeleton Park. I've been going there for almost 29 years. Great playground for kids, and there are always great festivals and activities being held there.

Mohammadreza Azarshab

I have walked an arrived in time.

Mark Donovan

Great place to take the kids.

Michael Muir

McBurney park

Mindy Chibirka

Beautiful park, but will always be skeleton park to me

Jimmy “The Seeker” Goodwood

Always clean and well looked after.

Thomas Keaney

A great park with a lot of history, Really cool!!!!

Mel McNulty

Lots of trees and water fountain

Stuart Mitchell

Nice size lil park for kids , sprinkler pond , slides and swings and a little bit for the big little kids in all of us and even just to sit and have a chat with sum ghosts if they feel like chattin , So fun for all ages

Amber Mccullough

Currently under construction, however ALWAYS a beautiful place with incredible history.

Barry Fry

A well used park in the city that attracts events for all Cultures.

Khalil Khan Mohammed

Very nice park

Keenadawn Lemay

Awesome!!!!

Jim Ferguson

Nice park to catch lots of Pokemon

Henry Archibald

Creepy

Christopher Charlebois

Great playground. Lots of room to play catch or play frisbee

Brian Tite

Great for relax and beautiful

Scott Myers

Cool place t visit in Kingston. People occasionally still find human bones.

Kerri Miller

Nice little park with the history of the cemetery

Jamie M

Great place for the shade with all the trees

Hugh Christopher Brown

Heart of a wonderful neighborhood

Christine Crozier

Love this Community Park

Joseph Aron

It's a fun park to visit anytime of day or night.

Julie j Cayer

Awesome park it was a cemetary 1800 1900

Brad Soule

Quiet

hancock walker

Wet and awesome

mukisa devis

Public park in kingston where one can spend some time on personal reflection

Sara Tee

Beautiful community space. Great location. Fascinating local history!

David Currie

A great park for everyone to go to :-)

Marshall Timmermans

Great park, plenty of skeletons. What more could you ask for?

Jennie Marshall

Beautiful space with lots of shade due to the mature trees found here. McBurney Park is the home of the Skeleton Park Arts Festival which is a marvelous event.

Brenda B.

Pretty cool place. I went to check out the stones.

K LaRoche

Portion of the site still under construction, washrooms closed, no water to drink.

Haunting Visions

Big place nice reno'd park they did, lots of room to hang out chill play games with friends

Dustin steacy

Cool little place, good for picnics and for kids

Kelsey McLaughlin

Go at night. The name is enough to put a scare into you

No More

A lot of shade because of trees

Jordan Prentice

It's a very nice park

Nishil Kuriakose

Awesome atmosphere ????

All Ways Clean

Good park.

Megan Carter

Beautiful and historic (an old cemetery)

Lauren O

One of my favourite parts of the city. Love the history and spooky origins of this spot too! Really rad!

Phoenix Smith

Beautiful park

Dario Paola

Beautiful park in the heart of the city with a great community surrounding it. Hosting a variety of local events throughout the year.

Beans Mama

Normally I would give it 5 stars but the park has been torn up and blocked off for so long with absolutely no progress on finishing the upgrades people are starting to become so inpatient and tear the fences down and using what equipment is standing anyway ???? wish they would just get the upgrades finished and take the fence down before someone gets hurt

sherri anthony

Nice city park with play structures for the kids

Patrick Rivadeneyra

(Translated) It is a very nice place, although I did not see water troughs and if necessary, children play and feel thirsty (Original) Es un lugar muy agradable, aunque no ví bebederos y si es necesario pues los niños juegan y les da sed

Madison Girl

Good park to play

D. Mew

It's an awesome park and sometimes has festivals or events

sam clarke

A great place to bring kids

Corey Kirkland

Thought it would be better. And to top it off. I didn't even see one skeleton. Maybe they are seasonal creatures. I'll try again in the spring.

Rami Maassarani

Great place for families, good facilities (wading pool, basketball court etc). Well maintained ice rink during the winter

Alba de Monroy

(Translated) Kewl (Original) Kewl

Mel Yui

Peaceful and serene

Travis R

A century old park that continues to amaze me to this day.

Paul McGuire

Beautiful community park. Great free music festival at the beginning of the summer each year!

Angel Marks

A beautiful Park with a haunting story! Great for events in summer

David Keleher

Amazing playground and great park to sit i in and enjoy the sun

Robert Thompson

Good park

Sue Heron

Famous for allegedly bring haunted, this park is a nice little Urban park in an older part of Kingston.

Josh Leeder (Landscaping Ninja)

Love Kingston Ontario, my grandmother lived up the street from the park.

Carolle Bruce

Lots of shady seating areas while you watch your kids play.

Ron J Roy

Halloween is always a blast at Skeleton Park!

Jared Mackay

The perfect neighbourhood park.

Lou Yi

In the park, you never know you were walking on Tombstones and graves that were buried more hundred(s) years ago, if you don't know the history.

mike serson (Mike the bum)

Mike the bum says: this park has been on ghost hunting shows, as 10,000 people are still buried there... in the 1960s and 70s queens and rmc would meet here and fight... gang kind of like behavior... In winter, when cold enough, they have skating,and in summer a wading pool for little kids, festivals, shade from summer heat...

Whitney Shantz

Bathroom was disgusting. I had to ask my 3.5 year old to put his hands in his pockets and not touch anything for fear that he may accidentally touch used drug paraphernalia (nothing visible). I was very thankful I had my 1 year old strapped into the carrier, otherwise I could not have gone inside (and would have found another bathroom had we not just spent 20 minutes trying to find a publicly accessible washroom). I was also thankful that I was wearing running shoes, as stuff kept crunching underneath my shoes (not sure if plastic or glass). The park itself was ok, but nothing to write home about.

Ted Beseau

Very relaxing park close to downtown.

Hulya Ozel

Nothing special very small event park.

narjisfathima Mohammed jahinger Ali

No word's to say excellent amazing idea's with all I liked it better than before

Kedar Warriner

Great park!

Neil NARBONNE

Good park with access from many different streets. Playground floor us sand instead of soft bouncy flooring...

Robert Cox

Great little park, with a slightly gruesome history, in an area of Kingston that looks to be on the up. Watch out for any festivals, like the Skeleton Park Arts Festival. Excellent location with plenty of free on street parking.

Wendy Campbell

Pretty little park with a dark history. Legend has it that it used to be a cemetery. They moved the stones, but left the bones. Every now and then one pops up or gets dug up. The park is also haunted as well as some houses surrounding the park.

William Stewart

Lots of fun for the little one.

Lee CCA

Awesome.

Josie Cifala

Love the new scenery landscaping.

Olivia Leah Lou Lou

A very fun place

Wayne Mckay

Good park for the kids

Philip Casey Law

Great park!

Cody O'Neil

Skeleton park is one of the best parks N of Princess.

Dane Merritt

nice little park. lots of events in the summer. plenty to do in each season (rink, playground, tables).

Meredith Martin

Wonderful for families!

Melanie Hartwick

Not that great

Kitty LeClaw

My favourite park in Kingston. Beautiful spot steeped in history!

Stephen Arnold

McBurney Park, better known as Skeleton Park, was one time a City cemetery on the outskirts of Kingston. When City growth caught up with the cemetery, the decision was made to dig up the graves and move them further out of town. This decision was easier said than done and led to an awful mess with the associated sights and smells. The decision was made to close everything up, knock over the remaining gravestones, cover everything up with earth and plant trees. Unfortunately, human bones would periodically work their way up to the surface and hence the alternative name, Skeleton Park. Today, McBurney Park is a busy, inner city park and by day, the site of a lovely playground and periodic, entertaining musical festivals. Night is different. Some say luminous shapes are sometimes apparent but they could be just escaping gases from former gravesites.

Bruna Gallo

Nice festival in June

Robert Stokes

Fun with family

Charles Reynolds

Seen my son there for first time in 3 years. A day I'll never forget

Brenda Nelson

Small park well situated.Between streets lots of walkers as it's close to markets and a Hospital also Artiliary Park Aquatic center. Ideal for young children swimming lessons etc. pilates racquet ball and swimming for adults .

Heather Dawson (Personal)

Rugged community park. Programming at this park is in tune with the people who live around it. Organic, local food, vegetarian, singer songwriters and artisans. Skating in the winter is organic (often uneven) and artistic (boundless).

Shaune Walt

Interesting to be able to see the leftover grave stones sticking through the ground. I'm sure its spooky at night!

Lama Najjar

Great but needs some rejuvenating

Chrissy Bois

My daughter has love playing at this park scents she was 1yrs old. I love it because of the shade from the many tree's and many good memories at this park threw the year's.

Jolly Roger

Never come to this serene park at dusk. They tree shade and the history of this site will give you a ghsatly chill. Don't look around as you might feel the ghostly presence just being there.

Theresa Eagles

Beautiful

Willow Prue

Amazing community park!

scott young

Quiet park, great for reading in for the most part.

Steven Spencer

Where do you start? The great play structures or the thousands of bodies just beneath the surface? Cool little park in a very artsy neighborhood. Each summer it is home to a huge arts festival with a lot of great local bands playing. It is also built over an old graveyard whose bodies have been preserved in the clay soil. So fun and creepy to sum up.

john kenny

Neat park

Chris

Good playground, would be better if by-law ever bothered to show up here (weed)

Brendan Montgomery

It's a nice big Park with good play equipment. The arts festival hosted in the summer is fantastic.

Brendan Ryde

Great playground and multi-purpose park. Perfect for the kids or for a picnic. Even better during the summer when the wading pool is open.

Ronan Bosch

Amazon

Jaclyn Acre

Wish the dead would come up and take the kids....other than that.....it's a small lil park with a great backstory

Melissa BP

This is a fantastic park for kids to play at. The playground is surrounded by huge trees that provide much needed shade on a hot day, it has older style play structures that are actually useful and fun - unlike the new parks that have useless plastic objects that look interesting but offer very little. The park has sand instead of wood chips which is also great for kids who enjoy building sand castles, etc. But by far the best part is the wading pool that has a couple of bins of toys for kids to grab toys from for use in the water. I have two young children who hate splash pads but have a blast in the wading pool. I hope Kingston never pulls it out.

John Adams

Wet

Suf Sanin

It's a peaceful place to walk around or sit on the benches. I visit regularly.

Jeanne Cooke

Beautiful Park.

Alana Bodi

Such a beautiful park!

Abe Gauthier

Close to downtown, lots of play structures for the kiddos. Overall pretty good. Bathroom was horrendous. Avoid at all costs.

Leslie Gourlay

It's ok. It is not well looked after. There is a play area for children which is nice but it's a very lack luster park. This is a shame because although there are permanent signs explaining the history of this park, it doesn't seem that many people stop to read it. This park should have more, pardon the phrase "life to it" (because this park began as a cemetery). This park is steeped in rich history, it has had many names over the years (this point is very difficult to find on the signs in this park). This information should be more evident and better marked on the signs. More benches would be nice. More importantly there should be more landscaping done to enhance this park. This is a tourist attraction and like many tourist areas in this city, it looks like it has been forgotten. The city could add more greenery in different heights/colour/size. Instead the city just does nothing because new ideas come to Kingston to be dismissed (die). The city needs to do a better job embracing new ideas, making these tourist areas pretty. But in order to have things done in this city you have to know someone. Hopefully, the parks department will do something so this park doesn't look like a barren wasteland. It's terrible the city officials have let this happen

Jean Ferguson

Myy puppys and I enjoy ery much

Lynda Barry

Its a great park we love it

Sara Russell

The big old tree provide protection from the sun and keep the grounds cool.

Jeff Walker

Under construction

Sarah Monroe

Everything was wonderful except for the lifeguard in the wading pool. All rules should be clearly posted. Went with a play group, we were the only ones there so I was going to take some pictures but was told we cant. If no photos is a rule post it.

Therese Reynolds

Lots of fun to bring kids. Benches available for reading etc. Usually clean

D Cruz

Where people and parents and there kids can just relax in the summer

Mike Bailey

well maintained good for the to play the children

David Wills

Great Easter Egg hunt. Well done organizers.

Paige Upchurch

Great park for kids. Lots of different play structures and in the winter skating rinks. Lots of trees and benches.

Olivia Smiley

Haunted parks are always fun

brandon pritchard

Lots of space for playin sports lots of play structures and historical value as well

Irfan Rashid

Aside from a serious lack of visible skeletons, everything you could want in a park

Jordan Laming

Splash pad in the summer. That's the best

Michael Sheppard

It is a fine park, the events put on here are quite good, I would be careful but honestly it seems safer then the reputation suggests.

Nicholas Darling

Bless.

Amanda Fellows-runions

Lovely

Lyle Mailloux

Always a great place to have functions and events.

Tammy Marr

I love this park in summer lot to do Art show everything and bands play their

Kevin Dempsey

I couldn't give the park 5 stars because I didn't see any skeletons.

jim hunter

nice day

Dianne Medhurst

Huge park and a small pool for the kids. Good family day

Gary Dean

New splashpad coming in

iant Tweedy

6 @ night u can go get a free meal from lion heart ????

Isaiah Mcarthur

As a spiritial person HOLY SMOKES As a tourist awesome i even got a pic of a old headstone stand in the play ground pretty surr they moved everyone quitely and the park itself small peaceful mot huanted at all. You could feel the history.

Laura LeBlanc

We love this park! There are several baby swings and big kid swings. There's a few climbing structure, some with slides. It is frequented by school children, sometimes with classroom teachers, sometimes after school.

Mini BurnS

Good park

Raymond Johnston

Great outdoor rink. When its colder out the ice is very good. At -2 it does get slushy as it should at that temp.

Costa Costa

It's a lonely park.very nice and open.but did you know before skeleton park.it was the kingston graveyard?its stillhas a half mile radius all Round

Gamer Girl

History

Thelma Bellec

Clean grass alwaus cut meat n tidy park

Elise Wiskin

Nice, clean park just off of the heart of downtown Kingston

Natalie R

Excellent park!

Charles Hart

Nice small park. Easter egg hunt for the kids this morning in the park with a brass band playing.

Tammy Ball

Beautiful

Peter Bomberg

Really nice setting with good washrooms

Carina Boufford

Very clean

Steve Mathieson

Small enclosed park, with swings and a fun playground. They have many artisan events going on during summer, but beyond that it's a park.

shane Nono

Not much to do

Alison Webster

We went as part of the Haunted Walk.

Elizabeth Griffiths-See

Quaint little park with a ton of enthusiasm. Alot going on!

Katie Maxwell

Can't wait for my night visit

Amanda Smith

U can actually see some of the tombstones of the immigrants buried there , then removed

J Donovan

Basic park with a creepy past. Went here after doing the haunted tour. The thought of 10000 plus bodies being buried under the ground in the 1800s then making a park on top is completely weird.

Steven Vankoughnett

Good spot of kingston history

Brad Green

Small but clean

Tammy Kelly

Great public space

Jordan Daniels

Becuse it used to be a grave yard and lots of kids get hurt

RDJ S

Grew up in this neighborhood and now Daughter lives nearby, kind of nostalgic.

Gary Way

Great time

Baby Bear

I love it here ! It's so quite and lovey . It's well taken care of

Rocko Aldrich

It's a quite retreat not far from downtown

Lynn & Bert KleinGeltink

Great family park

JCL

Play ground needs to be updated.

Jayden MacDonald

(Translated) Great For parnomal research. (Original) Great For parnomal research.

Jim Anderson

Was clean and fun for the kids

Greg Horton

Bit of a letdown.. Nice greenspace in old Kingston.. Nothing much to recommend it. No skeletons or bones Hanging around, despite the name skeleton park.

Angel Rouse

Worst child's park I've ever been to. Also it being aka skeleton park I don't feel my 5 month old needs to grow up around parks named like this.

Bruce Mcmurray

Nice park, lots of shade trees. Many things for children to play on

Alan Young

Disappointing the history is not better displayed