Umstead Park in Chapel Hill has a large shady playground with two cool spinners that kids adore. One spinner is shaped like a globe, and the other is made of three poles. There are also baby swings and regular swings, a music station with chimes and drums, three slides, a bridge, a rock-climbing plank, and climbing poles.

This park also has a small basketball court and a beach volleyball court that really looks like a scene from the beach on warm weekend days.
From Umstead Park you can bike or walk along a beautiful, serene creek all the way to Chapel Hill Community Center Park on the Bolin Creek bike path. One way, this walk is 45 minutes or 2.2 miles. It is a wide paved path that is shady most of the time and follows a creek that is sometimes roaring with water! A very steep extension called Tanyard Branch Trail connects Umstead Park with downtown Chapel Hill, which borders UNC.