Diehl Park

Diehl Park consists of 41.9 acres located on Wemor Street. There are five ball fields, two shelter houses, and a playground area along with the Kids Creation Playground. New lighting for the ball fields has been installed for the 2001 summer season.

There are four girls fields and one boys field

Kids Creation - "If you build it, we will play"

The Kids Creation Playground was designed by Leathers & Assoc. of Ithaca, NY. To date, they have designed more the 2,000 playgrounds all over the world.

Every playground is unique because it is designed by the children of the community. Leathers & Assoc. sent an architect to meet with the elementary students to determine what they wanted in a playground. Many adults gave the architect the history of Defiance. Leathers was able to combine all this information and design an incredible playground.

Over $150,000 was raised through a "grassroots" effort. People contributed in many ways: some put a penny in a milk jug, many bought a personalized brick that was laid at the entrance of the structure, some participated in the community garage sale or sponsored a component of the playground itself.

Over 1,200 volunteers showed up to help construct "Kids Creation" in just six days! The volunteers worked from sun up to sundown. Meals and childcare were provided for the workers.

Our community takes great pride in our new playground. We built it, so now you can play!