Oscar Wind Park

Completed in 1989, Oscar Wind Park is located along State Road 84 and Interstate 75. When it opened it was the first park near Weston and Bonaventure, paid for with city money, The park was named in honor of Oscar Wind, the developer who donated the land in 1983 when the city annexed the area. In 1993, six more acres were added to the park as was a new softball field, a soccer/football field and a new park shelter. Today the park is looking better than ever. A new playground and outdoor fitness court were unveiled last month which increased the fitness and play options in the City of Sunrise.

The new playground is ADA accessible with a wheelchair entry. It now has more than a dozen play structures including slides, swings, climbers, and a merry go round. Elements were added to foster learning, inspire music, and provide tactile games. The playground is covered in shade canopies and new seating and landscaping were added.

Also brand new at Oscar Wind Park is the first Fitness Court in the city and it is also shade covered like the playground. The Fitness Court has an app on the side that teaches you how to use it. You do a circuit of exercises using your own body weight in order to condition and strengthen during work outs. It can be modified for all fitness levels.

Additional park features included an open green space with a new 1/2 mile walking path, new landscaping, renovations to the restroom and picnic pavilion, and new LED lighting. My favorite improvement is that there is now a connecting walkway between Oscar Wind Park and Sawgrass Sanctuary Park. I like that you can do a really long walking circuit around both parks and never have to go into the road. The two parks blend together seamlessly. With the new additions to Oscar Wind Park, I think this is the best place in the city to enjoy nature, take the kids to play, and exercise.

Has such a cool playground for kids and even adults! Lots of interactive features, including an electric guitar (featured in the video). Will definitely be back to this playground.

What a great park. Clean play areas and so many rides for kids

Very fun park for the kids! My only critique is that there isn't a fence around the playground but there is a fence around the water. I would still come again for how fun the playground is.

Peaceful... variety of things to do for the kids. Not a lot of people.

If you look you will see nature all around @ Oscar Wind park and Sawgrass Sanctuary. The expansion of the park has begun, but it's still a nice place to run, walk and be.

This was a beautiful peaceful park with a trail, children's playground, small lake, softball and soccer field.

We had a great time at the park! My kids love it!

Great park, lovely play and picnic areas and a really nice wildlife walk at the back of the baseball field!

quiet place to have family parties

Beautiful kids park with playground and workout area for adults.

Small park but it has all you need to have a great time with your kids. Love it.

Very ice park has lots of things for kids to play with I love the small drived thru and the interactive music and everything is brand new and works . The house has cute functioning iteams and the bathroom is very clean.

Very nice, clean park. Covered pinic area and rest rooms

Very nice park. You can bring your children to have a great day in the playground. Clean restrooms.

Please update the Google search engine. There are no dogs allowed in this park.

Fun to bring the kids. The new park has educational activities for the kids to play and learn.

Recently remodeled. Nice clean park

Great playground with shade and properly cushioned floor. Restrooms are clean, and there is plenty of seating around the park.

I came here feeling glum, my solitude entrenched and the loneliness of my bachelordom deep and pitted as the high cirrus clouds overhead. I came here because I wanted to explore something new, because I was unwilling and too cheap to pay the $1.50 for the major facility nearby for the base privilege of being sad and reading a book outdoors (such things, I am convinced and principled, should always be and remain free), because being down and not at least trying to wash away the cloak is sadder than the feeling itself.
& so, I came here.

…And I am eternally glad I did. Listening to Hank Williams Jr.’s rendition of “Cowpoke,” reading a book about the Indians of the plains held out at arm’s length, I saw clear waters that matched the clarity I felt when I finally left the park a couple hours later. Perch, sac a lait, various native reptiles, a few ducks, and a monster of a soft shell turtle made for good company as I paced the well paved-over walking trail around the ponds, and the sunset was a painting as magnificent a sight as anything Creation ever did.

Truth be told, nothing had changed in my life during those one-hundred and twenty minutes: I was still alone, still lacking in companionship and love, want of money, but as the food in my stomach digested, and my mind likewise processed my environment, even though everything in my life was just as it was before I randomly found this oasis, everything had also simultaneously, profoundly, changed. Things were good. Life was joyous, and although dressed in a mellow mood, my spirits flew in the breeze, swaying just as the palmetto fans did. Yes, this park can be good and fortifying for the heart, and sometimes all one needs to change a sinking soul is a little patch of green space to remind you that yes, everything is gonna be alright. And even if it isn’t, that that’s okay too.