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We’re glad you are here! The Children’s Park of Tyler is located in beautiful East Texas. It is a special place to celebrate the lives of all children, in a day and time when children are not always appreciated as the gifts that they are. It is a unique park in that it provides opportunities for both natural play and quiet meditation. The park was built privately and donated to the City of Tyler in 2004. It continues to operate under the public private partnership between the City and the Children's Park of Tyler, a local not-for-profit-organization.

Upcoming Events

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Color Up Tyler 5K

June 15, 2013
8:30am

The Children’s Park  of Tyler, a 501C3 non profit. The Children’s Park provides a natural place for children to play and explore with waterfalls to climb, creeks to wade in and grass to roll down. A portion of the proceeds plus ALL parking fees will directly benefit this charity.  Parking Parking is $5 per car! [...]

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In the News: ETX First Sergeant Honored Through Park Expansion

KLTV.com-Tyler, Longview, Jacksonville, Texas | ETX News TYLER, TX (KLTV) – Gage Bell is just 15 months old. He wears a red, white and blue ribbon with a photo of his father, First Sergeant Russell R. Bell, who was killed while serving his country in Afghanistan. First Sergeant Bell’s East Texas family cherishes the Children’s [...]

Park Stories

  • Working with people who’ve lost a child, I’m often asked how long it takes to heal… Recently my mother-in-law asked me to “celebrate” Zack’s 21st birthday with her and my two sister-in-laws with a visit to his grave in Colleyville and a “girls” weekend. I was hurt when asked because I could rarely recall, if ever, discussing Zack with my sister-in-laws, and seldom with my mother-in-law. I was also offended because to me a girls weekend of fun and frolic didn’t involve anything that celebrated Zack’s life. Having moved away from Tyler, we have not had the opportunity to visit the new Children’s Park except through the website. We were recently in Tyler and got our first opportunity to visit. I invited my mother-in-law along thinking I would share with her how I felt about celebrating Zack’s birthday. She didn’t know where we were going and was surprised when we rolled into the parking lot. She thought the park had been built with funds raised by the school children across the street. As we began our stroll I told her we were going to visit Zack and began to tell her the story of the park and Glory Babies. You see, we’d mentioned our involvement in Glory Babies to them and had invited them to previous annual remembrance walks with what we’d perceived as not much interest on their part. But as we talked, I realized because they’d not asked much about it, we failed to share with them completely what Glory Babies truly meant to us. As we walked along and read the children’s names and marveled at the butterflies that Saturday, we ended up shedding some tears and sharing a lot of things left unsaid over the last 21 years. Things not said, not necessarily because no one cared, but because no one knew how to begin. As we left the park, we each had received long withheld healing and a new plan for celebrating Zack’s birthday. Craig’s family would represent Zack at the Walk the first weekend in October. Having never been to one of Glory Babies remembrance walks, I know that Craig’s family will celebrate Zack’s life in a way they never expected and receive a blessing far greater than a visit to a tombstone and a “girls” weekend could ever bring them. As we walked up the incline to the parking lot I had the eeriest feeling. As I turned back towards the park I heard children’s laughter on the wind that quietly blew through the park, the patter of their feet as they splashed through the water and their giggles in the flutter of the butterflies wings and I realized that you never completely heal from losing a child, you just find new ways to “hold” your child. “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” Ecc 3:1 Pam Davis