1st Place: Irvine Park Zoo
2nd Place: Eau Claire Children’s Museum
3rd Place: LE Phillips Memorial Library
 
With its scenic trails, hungry ducks, and miles of bike routes, Irvine Park is no doubt a fantastic spot to take the fam. But the thing that really makes the Chippewa Falls park stand out is the zoo, where they house animals like cougars, bobcats, buffalo, elk, deer, and monkeys. It’s nearly impossible to best a zoo for the best place to take kids, but the Eau Claire Children’s Museum came close, for regularly hosting creative activities and programming in its five main exhibits of interactive learning. Following the museum is the L.E. Philips Memorial Public Library, which only stands to get better with its renovation of the children’s area. – Bailey Berg