Shady Oak Beach Community Play Area
✓ Last confirmed for the 2024 season
Where: 5200 Shady Oak Rd, Minnetonka, Minnesota
When: typically open in warm months (check before visiting)
Hours: typically daylight hours
Cost: free
public-park
Sand carpets much of this play area, whose equipment is best suited to kids under 8, and it flows straight into a 76-foot sandy beach on a clear spring-fed lake with lifeguards and a high dive. Concessions, picnic shelters and canoe, kayak and paddleboard rentals operate when the beach is open.