Play Blog

In today’s economic environment, funding can be an obstacle to making the Landscape Structures playground or skatepark of your dreams a reality. Now we’ve made it easier to get the play structure or skatepark equipment you want – with flexible financing and purchasing options – as well as fundraising ideas [...]

General Recreation, Inc. has been assisting local clients for nearly forty years. Through our affiliation with nationally known manufacturers we offer the greatest selection and most innovative recreation products available. We’ve helped to develop thousands of recreation projects. Putting our design expertise to work, we have assisted public and private [...]

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. [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

“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. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]