Area: Central Whitby

Age Range: 18months+

Parking:  large parking lot off of Jeffery Street

Ground Cover: mulch

Main Equipment:

• 4 infant swings
• 2 accessible bucket swings
• 2 swings
• 3 slides
• 2 climbers
• 2 sand diggers
• ship with navigational tools

Accessibility Features: 2 bucket swings, musical instrument stations, play ship with navigational tools, sand digger

Facilities/Other:

• Jeffery Park Splash Pad
• seasonal portable washroom 
• basketball court
• soccer pitch
• field

Surrounding Park Area: Surrounded by large fields and connected to walking paths this is another great park to keep you entertained all day

Seating: 4 benches around the playground, very long concrete bench surrounding one corner of the playground space by the accessible swings, 3 two person picnic tables under the shade sail by the splash pad

Shade: shade sail over the splash pad picnic tables, there could be a shade sail over the sandpit (the posts were there when we visited, but the sail was missing)

Overall assessment: A new favourite themed park for us because of the amount of creative ship play! The number of navigational features and unique creative play elements incorporated to make this ship part of the entire structure allows more than one or two kids to interactive with this creative play theme! Add to this the awesome splash pad, splash pad run off creek, and surrounding fields and you've got yourself an entire day outing in one place! The portable washroom is a bit hard to see (as it is on the other side of the parking lot from the splash pad and playground) but it is a big bonus to have parks with washrooms in our minds.

Area:   Southeast Pickering

Age Range: best for 5 to 10 years

Parking:  limited street parking on Commerce Street (East of Liverpool)

Ground Cover: mulch

Main Equipment:

• 3 slides (1 twirly)
• 1 teeter rocker shark
• 1 monkey bars climber
• 1 standing spinner
• 1 low hammock (like a swing)
• 1 periscope and 1 ship's wheel

Accessibility Features: low hammock, bow of the 'ship', and small store on the backside

Facilities/Other:

• basketball court

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Surrounding Park Area: a nice small field behind the playground with a path that will eventually wind between the new development

Seating: 2 park benches in the shaded pavilion, 1 park bench facing the basketball court (first time we have ever seen this!), and 2 park benches at the back of the small field behind the playground

Shade: no shade on the playground, some shade provided by the shade pavilion in front of the park


Overall assessment: A cute ship themed playground for Pickering close to the waterfront (walking distance). With an accessible ship bow, ship store (on the backside), upper wheel and periscope, this playground is meant for imaginative exploration. Perhaps there may be a geocache to discover in the adjacent park space one day! 

Area: North Pickering

Age Range: 18months and up

Parking:  some street parking off of Canadian Street

Ground Cover:  wood chips

Main Equipment:

• 1 saucer swing (was not up when we visited)
• 1 slide
• 1 beaver rocker
• 1 climbing tree structure

Accessibility Features:  one saucer swing (was not up when we visited)

Facilities/Other:

• none

Surrounding Park Area: small green space and some small surrounding trees

Seating: two benches facing the playground, additional rock seating around the park

Shade: none over the playground itself, small shade pavilion over two benches at the one entrance to the parkette

Overall assessment: This is a fun small Canadian themed parkette with a unique tree climber good for a little entertainment at this new playground. It's nice to see small parkettes being added to brand new neighbourhoods!
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Area: Pickering South

Age Range: 5 to 12 years old

Parking:  limited street parking along Rosebank Road

Ground Cover: mulch

Main Equipment:

• 2 slides
• 2 spinners 
• 1 rope web 
• climbing apparatus 
• train noise button (behind the slides)

Accessibility Features: ramp to the top of the slides, play stations beneath the slides

Facilities/Other:

• train viewing platform

Surrounding Park Area: small green space and nice garden path through the park

Seating: 2 park benches, rock seating wall along the back edges of the playground, and rock seats by the pergola at the top of the slides

Shade: early morning shade provided by the park retaining wall, no shade through the rest of the day on the playground, pergola offers shade for top park bench


Overall assessment: One of Pickering's newer playgrounds that has a fabulous accessible slide!  This is a fabulous park to go if your child likes to watch the trains go past along the train tracks.  The raised seating area provides a fantastic front row seat to the trains passing by. A neat feature (I am told) is the train sound button behind the slides. Sadly the batteries were not yet replaced when I visited in the Spring, but they are checked every year.