Flyover Park is an eye catching inner city park that is unlike any other playground in the city.
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Address: 651 McDougall Rd NE
Parking: short term free parking on McDougall Rd close to the playground
Gordie’s Review (12 years old): “Really good. Stick forest climber really really good. Biggest roller slide I’ve ever seen. ”
Nicky’s Review (9 years old): “I liked the bamboo forest and how they made stuff go up the hill”
Robbie’s Review (6 years old): “It’s good. I liked swinging in the double swing with my mom.”
Age Range: 2-12 years
Ground cover: pour-in-place recycled tire flooring
Features: tandem swing, hill features including a twisty slide and long roller slide. Bamboo stick forest climber, 2 swings (1 baby). Ping pong, ladder ball and tether ball.
Surrounding park area: This playground is build on a small park partially under the 4th avenue flyover road that goes into downtown. It is a short distance to the bow river pathway along memorial and the Bridgeland area.
Accessibility: There is accessible flooring throughout the play areas. There is a ramp up to the top of the hill. There is a transfer platform at the bottom of the roller slide. The tandem swing provides back support for both seats.
Shade: Shade is provided by the flyover road. There are also some young trees by the play areas.
Seating: there are a few benches and a ‘grassy’ area that would be good for picnics.
Overall Assessment
This playground looks really cool and the play value is really there too. Effort has been made to make this park appeal to people of many different ages. We saw lots of little kids there having fun with their families and adults playing with the ping pong and ladder ball.
This is a great new community space and I hope to see more unused spaces transformed in a similar way in the future.
