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Community: Bridgeland – 9th St and Centre Ave NE. Parking: There is 2 hr free street parking along 9th St as well as in the community centre parking lot off of 9th St.
Gordie’s Review (15 months old) – Loved the ramps and steps!
Gordie’s Review (4.5 years old) – “I liked playing on the swing with my new friend.”
Nicky’s Review (17 months old) – “Go!” (She liked running up and down the ramps).
Age Range: All ages.
Ground Cover: Pour-in-place recycled tire flooring
Features: Preschool play structure with 1 slide and 2 ramps; School-age play structure with 1 slide; 2 music panels (one almost everything works, the other not so much); medium spinner; Merry-go-round climber; balance beam swing; Large platform swing; 2 additional climbing structures.
Surrounding Park Area: Flat grassy areas; soccer field; steep hill; young trees. The park is located where the Calgary General Hospital used to be.
Shade: Shading in the preschool play structure provided by canopies. Little elsewhere.
Seating: 3 benches around the play area.
Accessibility: Great access throughout the play area and ramps on the pre-school play structure allows access to two levels.
Overall Assessment: This is a great community playground. This would be a good park to take kids of varying ages as there will be equipment to occupy all of them.
The flooring and ramps are great for even the littlest kids. Older kids will love the climbing equipment and giant spinner. Definitely worth a visit.
I thought most of this park was great but for some reason the curly slide is dangerous (I know I sounds like a weird paranoid Mom but I’m not). My 4 year old (whom is at tons of playgrounds and I haven’t really had to watch her on a slide since she was two) had a huge fall on the slide. I think she was holding on to a lower railing and slid her feet down, then got scared because her feet twisted too far down (inside of the slide is steep) and then her hands let go and somehow she dropped to the bottom of the slide and smashed her face. I would have chalked it up to some crazy fluke but 10 minutes later another kid at the park did the same thing!