Playground Magazine

A­ddleman, the vice president of Recreation Creations, Inc., a playground equipment company based in Hillsdale, Mich., had heard the family story many times…

After nearly five years of planning, fundraising and coordinating, Billie Patton’s dream of making over the playgrounds in the Village of Blissfield, Mich., is…

The first school day back from summer vacation validated the long hours invested over the past 18 months by the playground committee. Teachers and students…

Before any crew arrives on the job site with shovels and wrenches, many pre-construction issues need to be addressed. The 5 Ps of playground construction —…

On a summer evening early in July, our friend and neighbor reported their ten-year-old boy was missing. Twenty-four hours later, the county search and rescue…

One thing I have noticed about the playground industry is the many abbreviations floating about. We have the NRPA, ASTM, IPEMA, NPSI, NPCAI, NPPS, and the list…

Want a place to play a game of Soldiers or Cowboys and Indians? The playground at Fort Christmas, Florida just might be the place you’ll want to go. The PVC…

A new theme-oriented children's playground has become the crown jewel in a major redevelopment of a little used recreational resource in the Borough of Seaside…

Skateboarding is not often thought of as a family activity, but Tee’s Golf Center in Conshohocken, Penn., recently added Ollie World, an extreme skatepark, to…