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Durham region
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Bay Ridges Kingsman Park

6/22/2015

3 Comments

 
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Area: South Pickering

Age Range: 2 to 12 years

Parking:  large parking lot for entire park

Ground Cover: mulch

Main Equipment:
  • 6 slides
  • multiple climbing apparatus
  • 2 swings
  • 2 infant swings

Accessibility Features: none

Facilities/Other:
  • washroom away from park near baseball diamonds
  • multiple baseball diamonds
  • soccer field
  • tennis courts
  • football field 

Surrounding Park Area: large park with a lot of green space. 

Seating: 3 park benches

Shade: no shade over the playground or the surrounding green space

Overall assessment: A great park almost part of the Waterfront Trail. Very quiet through the week, but busy on weekends with various sports. Great for the young to the young at heart, very little ones may need a helping hand through the "smaller" structure. 
3 Comments
Kraeg Minett
2/24/2022 16:31:35

I grew up in Pickering in the 1970s and remember a fort style playground in the Kinsmen park on Sandy Beach Road. I can't find any reference to it outside of my own faded memory and was wondering if you have any archival photos of it anywhere. I'd love to see a scan of the playground just to see how it measures up to my memory of it.

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Durham Region Playground Reviews
2/24/2022 20:12:51

Hi Kraeg,

It sounds like it would have been a great wooden fort playground back in the day! Sadly I've only been documenting the local parks since 2013. I tried searching the Pickering library archives too but no such luck as photos of playgrounds didn't seem to be a thing back then. You could try city hall parks department archives perhaps? Good luck!

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Kraeg Minett
2/25/2022 22:58:24

Well thanks very much anyway. I appreciate you looking into it! 😁




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