Playground Magazine

While families are keeping budgets in mind and traveling less, they are also looking for places to enjoy the outdoors closer to home. Throughout these economic…

Unfortunately, it’s a scene all too familiar to parks and rec managers in cities and towns across North America: Parks and recreation budgets have been…

Texas and hot. They just go together, like peanut butter and jelly or Donny and Marie or Tom and Jerry or milk and cookies or cat and mouse or burger and…

When you talk about Texas, everything is big. Opened in the summer of 2009, the Katy Play Station covers 15,000 square feet and can be found in the city of…

When it comes to designing the kind of playground that inspires kids, the hallmark of truly blissful child’s play will naturally encourage social and…

Girard Street Park was being loved almost literally to death. There is no doubt that the park and playground, located just off Washington, D.C.’s Girard…

If a young boy or girl were describing Play Planet, he or she just might say, “This playground has the most.” Indeed, Play Planet might have the most of any…

CVS Caremark, Boundless Playgrounds  and the City of Los Angeles created a playground at the Rosecrans Recreation Center in Los Angeles that provides…

Nature deficit disorder is a term coined by author Richard Louv in his book "Last Child in the Woods" to describe the modern phenomenon of children and adults…