Fitness Circuit Playground a “Win” for El Primer Paso
As the El Primer Paso school family and supporters gathered, along with New York Jets players, to spread 20 tons of green and white loose-fill rubber mulch around their new play area, Susan O’Donnell reflected that this was a “long-time dream” for the school.
Hillside Slides: One Unique Solution
The hillside slide offers a fun, unique feature to space that often goes unused in parks. While all projects require attention to detail and effective communication, hill slides demand an up-close-and-personal relationship with topography and ongoing communication between playground consultant and customer. Here, Steve Hemler, a General Recreation sales consultant, provides his expertise on hill slides.
Honoring the Past, Celebrating the Future: Anderson Farm Park
Montgomery County’s Upper Providence Township in Oaks, P.A., is in the midst of implementing a four-year master plan to develop a world-class recreational area on the site of the original Anderson Farm.
“It hasn’t been a working farm for about 20 years and it’s a strong source of nostalgia in our community,” says Recreation Director Sue Barker.
The Secret’s Out: Stewart on the Green is a Great Place to Play
Nestled 50 miles south of Pittsburgh in the Laurel Highland Mountains, is the small community of Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania. The borough, encompassed by the 20,000 acres of Ohiopyle State Park along the Youghiogheny River is home to 72 permanent residents.
Before You Buy: Take a Playground Field Trip
It’s easy to make a brand-new structure look inviting and durable in a catalog, but how well does it hold up after three years (or more!) of wear, tear and weather?
While marketing materials and websites are helpful resources, we recommend that you take a playground field trip to see and touch what’s out there before making the decision to buy.
Build Jake’s Playground Heals a Family; Lifts Up a Community
“Grief is exhausting. You don’t want to wake up from it,” admits Lynn Cummings. Her grandson Jacob Myles Cummings Nasto passed away in 2008. Jake’s rare heart condition, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, kept him in the hospital for operations and away from his favorite place: the playground.
Product Spotlight: Landscape Structures Evos Belt-Zone Climber
Landscape Structures’ Evos playsystem is the company’s most popular playstructure with good reason. It’s three-dimensional spherical design offers children an infinite number of ways to enter, exit and play through the structures while encouraging creative and imaginative play. Now, with the release of the Evos Belt-Zone Climber, there are even more options.
Beyond Equipment, Playgrounds That Matter.
General Recreation does a variety playground projects every year, but sometimes there is one that stands out. The Jake’s Place Playground was one of those projects that seperated itself from the other projects, simply beacuse it was bigger than a playground, or a new product.
Local Service is Better
We at General Recreation care about the communities we have projects in. We work with local consultants that have experience in the area to deliver our solutions. Working with local consultants allows us to deliver a level of service that we just wouldn’t be able to deliver if we we’re dictating from some office, in some city, far away
Community Build Playgrounds – General Recreation Inc
Have you ever considered using volunteers to construct a school or community playground? General Recreation provides free “community Build” services. A Community Built Playground is when a group of volunteers organize and install a commercial playground while creating a positive community project.
