Play Blog

Inclusive Play Incorporating a Higher Level of Design This playful and elegant collection of musical play events lends itself to any environment. Rhapsody™ Outdoor Musical Instruments can be positioned together for jamming, or placed individually. Their solo sounds are just as beautiful as when they are combined together. [...]

More and more communities are recognizing the importance of accessible, inclusive play for children of all abilities and are putting this awareness into action. The fall 2015 opening of a state-of-the-art community and recreation center in Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania included a vibrant, inclusive playground. [...]

As of November 2014, the Department of General Services has added assembly/installation/construction services options when piggybacking on COSTARS-14 contract for recreation and fitness equipment. When COSTARS was created in 2004, it included installation and related services. In 2012 the installation provision was discontinued. Since that time, the Department of General [...]

General Recreation offers a variety of Sun Charge Systems’ clean-energy products. With solar powered charging station benches and poles, people can stay connected through an environmentally friendly, self-contained power system. [...]

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 [...]