Hot Shot Tot Lot

By the name, I was hopeful for a source for the elusive Tater Tot.
Don’t be a tater hater.

It’s like someone decided to take a vacant lot, put it to use as a park and give it the most awesomest name possible. Well I say mission accomplished. The park itself isn’t mush, but it doesn’t have much room to work. Just a slide, a couple swings and a bench. And of course that awesome name.

You’re reading this right: Hot Shot Tot Lot!
Yosemite… meh. Yellowstone… meh. Those names of parks, and those parks!, have nothing on Indy Parks’s Hot Shot Tot Lot!
At first I thought it was someone’s yard, and they made their own «park» sign. Alas… that’s a government-​funded, designed, official park sign & name!
Their website description isn’t joking… it’s mini. Like a side yard mini… It’s pretty awesome that it’s smack in the middle of a neighborhood. I mean… there were kids playing in the street so it makes sense to have something for them not in the street; yet… the leftover underwear and soda cups sprinkled through out might deter kids from entering.
I think it might be exactly why kids in the future will be afraid of parks… get the drift?
I feel like the name calls to be more of a meet up for hipsters than really a kids’ park.
Let it be known… this is the best name of anything in Indianapolis. No other title can compare. So this review is really to make sure everyone is aware there is a place called Hot Shot Tot Lot, and it’s right here in our fare city.