Play Blog

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. [...]

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. [...]

With the new ADA regulations taking effect this Thursday March 15th, 2012 you may have some questions about what that means for your playgrounds. The ADA guidelines have been in place since 1991. The new regulations now mean that the guidelines are law and can be enforced by the Department [...]

There is a new playground at C.W. Longer Elementary School in Hollidaysburg, PA. With lush green trees as its backdrop and located near a community recreation center among tennis courts, soccer and football fields and walking trails, this park is in no way ordinary. [...]

A study from the VU Medical Center in Amsterdam recently published in The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine confirms that the more exercise a child gets, the more success he or she has in the classroom. It examined 14 cases—ten of which were evaluated using an observational methodology and [...]