Community parks · New Castle County
Valley Garden Park
Wilmington Park Trust Fund Commission · 500 Campbell Road, Wilmington, DE 19807 · 102 acres
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Photographs
The magnolias over the stream, with the daffodil bank behind. Early spring, which is the week this park is famous for.Restrooms
Portable units — season not confirmed
A portable unit. Not a plumbed block — the city's amenity list doesn't mention restrooms at all, so this is only here because someone stood in front of it.
Confirmed 4 Aug 2026 · Site maintainer, in person
A hundred-acre du Pont estate garden given to the city in 1942, sitting outside the city limits near Hoopes Reservoir. A paved path along a creek, and in early spring the magnolias and the daffodil bank. That's genuinely it — no playground, no pavilion, no plumbing. Come for a walk and the flowering trees, not for an afternoon.
What's there
Facilities
13/13 confirmed- Playground
- No
- Drinking water
- No
- Shade
- Yes
- Pavilion
- No
- Grills
- No
- Trails
- Yes
- Paved path
- Yes
- Courts / fields
- No
- Fishing
- No
- Disc golf
- No
- Skate park
- No
- Dog park
- No
Hours and contact
- Hours
- Not confirmedThe city publishes no hours for this park.
- Phone
- 302-571-4278From the site's own maintainer, not from a published listing — the Wilmington Park Trust Fund Commission publishes no number I could find.
Other community parks in New Castle County
- Glasgow Regional Park — restrooms: yes — season not confirmed
- Carousel Park — restrooms: yes — season not confirmed
- Rockwood Park — restrooms: yes — season not confirmed
- Banning Park — restrooms: yes — season not confirmed
- Brandywine Springs Park — restrooms: portable units — season not confirmed
- Iron Hill Park — restrooms: yes — season not confirmed
- Talley Day Park — restrooms: yes — season not confirmed
- River Road Park — restrooms: not confirmed
- Delcastle Recreational Park — restrooms: yes — season not confirmed
- Can-Do Playground — restrooms: yes — season not confirmed
Where it is
Field notes
What I saw on the day. Not checked with anyone, and it can go out of date faster than the facts above.
Field note · 8 August 2026 · Site maintainer
302-571-4278 for Valley Garden. This was the last park on the site with no number at all: the Wilmington Park Trust Fund Commission runs it and publishes nothing, so no amount of reading operator pages was going to produce this one.
Field note · 4 August 2026 · Site maintainer
There's a porta potty, a paved path and the creek. Little else — no playground, no pavilion, nothing to fill a bottle from.
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