If you’re looking for a pristine playground to take your pristine children, one where they can go down primary-colored plastic slides and land onto a cushioned surface, this post may not be for you.

For swings, slides and climbing frames in regular playgrounds, safety is usually considered paramount, though they may not always encourage children to play quite so freely. In contrast, the more ...

Huntington Beach’s Central Park was the place to go for a splashing good time Saturday, when city officials reopened the water-filled Adventure Playground after three years of pandemic- and ...

The Richard Dattner–designed Adventure Playground, one of New York City’s most beloved recreational spaces, recently reopened after a yearlong renovation by the Central Park Conservancy. In sharp ...

There was a place in Irvine, perfectly planned Irvine, that wasn’t born of any plan and encouraged not to have one. Behind the walls of Adventure Playground, there was mud. There was also wood ...

The newly built staircase stands ready for the pitter-patter of feet. The hillside awaits transformation into a slippery slope. The hollowed mud pit languishes mud-less. The just-constructed forts ...

Located in Huntington Beach’s Central Park, Adventure Playground has beckoned generations of children to build, play and imagine in a rustic wonderland created for the rough-and-tumble sort. The ...