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Mississauga Jaycee Park

7/28/2017

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Area: East Mississauga

Age Range: 18 months-12 years (best for 4-12 years)

Parking: limited street parking on Gulleden Drive

Ground Cover:  recycled rubber surfacing and mulch

Main Equipment:
  • 2 tall slides, 2 toddler slides
  • 2 swings
  • 1 infant swing
  • 1 bucket swing
  • 1 saucer swing
  • 1 trampoline (yes that's right there is a small in ground trampoline!)
  • 1 gravity spinner
  • multiple climbing structures and rope bridge
  • sand pit
  • music area

Accessibility Features:  1 saucer swing, 1 bucket swing, 2 toddler slides, trampoline, music stations
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Facilities/Other:
  • small green park space

Surrounding Park Area: green space and walking path (connects to other parks via sidewalk)

Seating: multiple poured concrete seating walls, rocks, and some park benches and picnic tables throughout the park

Shade: no shade over the playground itself, but shade provided from the surrounding trees throughout the green space of the park

Overall assessment: This was the perfect sized playground to let our 3.5 year old run wild! She loved the hill between the toddler slides and the larger play structure as it was the perfect slope to run down towards the trampoline. Yes! There was an in ground trampoline and it was amazing! The perfect size for one person at a time (it says ages 5-12 but toddlers loved it too). She needed a bit of help climbing up the rock wall to the larger slides as her legs weren't quite long enough to reach the next climbing rock, but the rope bridge was a great skill builder for her (she went VERY slowly across it). Luckily for us this park isn't too far away from family in Etobicoke and we most certainly will be going out of our way to visit it again whenever we are in the area! Did I mention it has a TRAMPOLINE?!?
This park was chosen as one of Canada's 150 coolest playgrounds
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Toronto Grange Park

7/23/2017

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Area: Downtown Toronto

Age Range: best for 5-12 years (but our 3.5 year old loved it too because it was challenging for her)

Parking: limited street parking in the area, best to look up Green P Parking lots (close to Spadina or north on McCaul; both which require 5-10 minute walk to get to the park)
​Can also take the subway to St Patrick station (8 minute walk)

Ground Cover:  mulch

Main Equipment:
  • 2 tall slides, 2 shorter slides
  • 2 saucer swings
  • 1 infant swing
  • 1 swing seat
  • multiple climbing structures and rope bridges
  • multiple spinners and rockers under the larger play structure

Accessibility Features:  2 saucer swings
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Facilities/Other:
  • splash pad jets in the pavement (between play structures)
  • fenced leash free dog park

Surrounding Park Area: green spaces, a field, and large shady trees

Seating: multiple park benches around the park

Shade: a lot of shade provided from the surrounding trees over some of the park benches as well as parts of the play structures (depending on the time of day)

Overall assessment: Wow! Talk about a playground that's challenging and builds risk assessment skills! With so many unique and fun structures to climb, including the top of many structures, it's no wonder this park is always very busy! The slides are all metal but don't get hot in the sun and even though the tall slides appear fast, they slow kids down the entire way down and taper off at the end so even our 3.5 year old could handle them (apologies couldn't get any pictures of the larger structure as it was crawling with kids and my belief is our site photos shouldn't include anyone else's kids in the shots). We could have spent hours here but sadly it was lunch time and we forgot to bring a picnic so we had to leave. Whenever we are downtown in the area though we will definitely be heading back to this playground!
This park was chosen as one of Canada's 150 coolest playgrounds
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