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Play Across Canada

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Playground Professionals is honored to be "Riding the Top Box" with Pop-Up Play as they Play Across Canada! We challenge all you play and playground professionals to help Pop-Up complete the tour by donating toward their £5,000 goal.

High Design + Playability = Success

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Adventure Playgrounds

FiveFields.jpg Treehugger.com recently wrote a snarky piece about a new play area in Lexington, MA. The editor of the site dismissed this structure, saying this “play equipment encourages kids to...

Can We Bring Back Riskier Playgrounds?

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Children climb on sculpture-like structures in this New York City landscape playground, designed by M. Paul Friedberg, in 1966. (Lady Allen of Hurtwood Archives, Coventry, U.K.)

Adventure Playgrounds

A slide, swings, maybe a seesaw or sandbox: These are the usual elements of today’s playground. We’ve become so accustomed to their uniformity that it’s hard to believe that playgrounds used to be...

The "New" Adventure Playgrounds

Adventure Playgrounds

When someone says “adventure playground” I, and I suspect most people, have a vision somewhat like the one above and envision a playspace comprised mostly of junk and reclaimed lumber cobbled...

Neighborhood Play Around the World

Adventure Playgrounds At a pop-up adventure playground, a child tells her father where a window needs to go. He borrows a box cutter from the site volunteer and follows the line her finger traced with the blade. As she...

Eagle Creek to open a playground in the treetops

Adventure Playgrounds

Coming soon to Eagle Creek Park: five zip lines, two Tarzan swings and a series of rope ladders, bridges, swings and trapezes. Go Ape, a treetop adventure company founded in the United Kingdom in...