Playground equipment-10 Top Playgrounds Around the World
Playground equipment-10 Top Playgrounds Around the World
Clemyjontri Park
Fairfax County, Virginia
This two-acre playground (pictured above) was specially designed to allow kids with physical challenges to play alongside typically developing kids. Pathways are wide and wheelchair friendly, many swings have high backs, and ramps help kids reach elevated play equipment. If two acres sounds unmanageable, kids (and parents) can tackle one of the four outdoor "rooms" at a time—and then end the day at the carousel in the middle that connects each of the spaces.
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Playground
London, England
Outfitted with a pirate ship, a secret garden filled with musical instruments, and teepees, this playground is as much about fantasy as it is about physical activity. Located next to Kensington Palace, it makes a perfect stop for traveling kids, and since there's an outdoor cafe serving fresh-made sandwiches and organic ice cream, it's the perfect place to refuel too.
Jardin du Luxembourg
Paris, France
Whether you've been to the park or not, images of the Jardin’s historic carousel and push boats are probably embedded in your memory from countless movies. There's also a puppet theater, challenging playground equipment for older kids, an enclosed sand area for younger children, pony rides, and wading pools.
Ghost Train Park
Lima, Peru
An abandoned project for an electric train station in
Lima has been turned into the Ghost Train Amusement Park in Lima. Located in the center of the city's busy urban environment, the park has been built around neglected concrete columns, now splashed with bright colors and strung with recycled materials to create rides and games; you'll also find car tires, swings, climbing structures and a canopy line—all open to the public and free of charge. The project was developed by Basurama (basurama.org), a Spanish group committed to turning trash into treasure, particularly is urban spaces.
McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park
Scottsdale, Arizona
Model railroad clubs. Historic trains to climb aboard. A scale model train to ride. A carousel. Shaded playgrounds (a must in an area where the sun would be beating down on you otherwise). My favorite part is the Roald Amundsen Pullman Car, which was used was used by every president from Herbert Hoover through Dwight Eisenhower.
Adventure Playground
Berkeley, California
The adventure playground is more than just a place to run and swing. Kids can design and build forts, boats and play structures using the available wood, hammers, saws, nails and paint—plus there’s some adult supervision. It's the sort of fun that kids used to enjoy in their own back yards, and it's also a chance to try out your ideas, fail some, succeed some, and get exceedingly dirty.
Dschungel Spielplatz (Jungle Playground)
Berlin, Germany
Made entirely of wood, this playground's shady trees and fun animal sculptures transport kids to the jungle. A palm tree jungle, wooden huts, hammocks, catwalks and a fort-like play structure (with a speedy and long slide) complete the fantasy.
Nishi Rokugo Koen (Tire Park)
Tokyo, Japan
There's something very fitting about a playground made of tires in the country that produces more automobiles than any other. At Nishi Rokugo Park, designers used big tires to build swings, bridges, and tunnels—as well as robot and dragon sculptures. Kids (and adults) can even hop aboard a tire and speed down a wide concrete hill.
Koret Children's Quarter at Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA
Established in 1888, the playground at Golden Gate Park is thought to be the United States' first public playground. It has been designed and redesigned over the years, maintaining bits of the past as it grows. Today, kids climb up a hillside only to whoosh down again on long cement slides (locals know that sitting on a piece of cardboard saves your clothing and makes the slides move faster). On rainy days, kids whirl around on an indoor 1914 carousel while parents take in painted panels of Bay Area landscapes. A newer addition, a rock climbing wall shaped like waves, gives younger kids a quiet place to play in the sand away from more rambunctious older kids.
Parque Gulliver
Valencia, Spain
Designed to make kids feel like Lilliputians discovering a 70-meter-tall giant, all the play equipment in this park stems from Gulliver's resting figure: slides, ramps, stairs and caves.
Clemyjontri Park
Fairfax County, Virginia
This two-acre playground (pictured above) was specially designed to allow kids with physical challenges to play alongside typically developing kids. Pathways are wide and wheelchair friendly, many swings have high backs, and ramps help kids reach elevated play equipment. If two acres sounds unmanageable, kids (and parents) can tackle one of the four outdoor "rooms" at a time—and then end the day at the carousel in the middle that connects each of the spaces.
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Playground
London, England
Outfitted with a pirate ship, a secret garden filled with musical instruments, and teepees, this playground is as much about fantasy as it is about physical activity. Located next to Kensington Palace, it makes a perfect stop for traveling kids, and since there's an outdoor cafe serving fresh-made sandwiches and organic ice cream, it's the perfect place to refuel too.
Jardin du Luxembourg
Paris, France
Whether you've been to the park or not, images of the Jardin’s historic carousel and push boats are probably embedded in your memory from countless movies. There's also a puppet theater, challenging playground equipment for older kids, an enclosed sand area for younger children, pony rides, and wading pools.
Ghost Train Park
Lima, Peru
An abandoned project for an electric train station in
Lima has been turned into the Ghost Train Amusement Park in Lima. Located in the center of the city's busy urban environment, the park has been built around neglected concrete columns, now splashed with bright colors and strung with recycled materials to create rides and games; you'll also find car tires, swings, climbing structures and a canopy line—all open to the public and free of charge. The project was developed by Basurama (basurama.org), a Spanish group committed to turning trash into treasure, particularly is urban spaces.
McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park
Scottsdale, Arizona
Model railroad clubs. Historic trains to climb aboard. A scale model train to ride. A carousel. Shaded playgrounds (a must in an area where the sun would be beating down on you otherwise). My favorite part is the Roald Amundsen Pullman Car, which was used was used by every president from Herbert Hoover through Dwight Eisenhower.
Adventure Playground
Berkeley, California
The adventure playground is more than just a place to run and swing. Kids can design and build forts, boats and play structures using the available wood, hammers, saws, nails and paint—plus there’s some adult supervision. It's the sort of fun that kids used to enjoy in their own back yards, and it's also a chance to try out your ideas, fail some, succeed some, and get exceedingly dirty.
Dschungel Spielplatz (Jungle Playground)
Berlin, Germany
Made entirely of wood, this playground's shady trees and fun animal sculptures transport kids to the jungle. A palm tree jungle, wooden huts, hammocks, catwalks and a fort-like play structure (with a speedy and long slide) complete the fantasy.
Nishi Rokugo Koen (Tire Park)
Tokyo, Japan
There's something very fitting about a playground made of tires in the country that produces more automobiles than any other. At Nishi Rokugo Park, designers used big tires to build swings, bridges, and tunnels—as well as robot and dragon sculptures. Kids (and adults) can even hop aboard a tire and speed down a wide concrete hill.
Koret Children's Quarter at Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA
Established in 1888, the playground at Golden Gate Park is thought to be the United States' first public playground. It has been designed and redesigned over the years, maintaining bits of the past as it grows. Today, kids climb up a hillside only to whoosh down again on long cement slides (locals know that sitting on a piece of cardboard saves your clothing and makes the slides move faster). On rainy days, kids whirl around on an indoor 1914 carousel while parents take in painted panels of Bay Area landscapes. A newer addition, a rock climbing wall shaped like waves, gives younger kids a quiet place to play in the sand away from more rambunctious older kids.
Parque Gulliver
Valencia, Spain
Designed to make kids feel like Lilliputians discovering a 70-meter-tall giant, all the play equipment in this park stems from Gulliver's resting figure: slides, ramps, stairs and caves.
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