Area: Pickering North
Age Range: 18 months to 12 years
Parking:
Weekends - plenty in the Vaughan Willard Public School parking lot
Weekdays - limited street parking along Glenanna Road
Ground Cover: mulch
Main Equipment:
Accessibility Features: talking tubes
Facilities/Other:
Surrounding Park Area: a nice walking path surrounds the park that winds through the Glenanna neighborhood and past a butterfly garden; a cement pad for skateboarding?? is located at the bottom of the hill behind the playground
Seating: 2 park benches facing the smaller play structure, and a stone wall that can be used as seating wrapping around the back of the playground; there are also a few park benches scattered around the paved trail through the park
Shade: no shade on the playground structure, shade from the surrounding trees over some park benches in the area
Overall assessment: A great central playground for big and small kids. Even though the rock climbing wall is an older model than some, it is one of the best as it leads to a lookout tower with a fireman pole! And this is one of the rare parks in Pickering that has a washroom building (operating seasonally 10am to 8pm). Don't forget to see if you can spot a butterfly in the field of bushes beside the tennis courts (labelled as a butterfly garden)!
Age Range: 18 months to 12 years
Parking:
Weekends - plenty in the Vaughan Willard Public School parking lot
Weekdays - limited street parking along Glenanna Road
Ground Cover: mulch
Main Equipment:
- 2 swings
- 2 infant swings
- 5 slides
- 2 rock climbing walls
- 1 fireman pole
- 1 play fire truck
Accessibility Features: talking tubes
Facilities/Other:
- butterfly garden
- 2 soccer fields
- softball diamond
- washrooms (seasonal from 10am until 8pm)
- 4 tennis courts (part of Glendale Tennis Club)
Surrounding Park Area: a nice walking path surrounds the park that winds through the Glenanna neighborhood and past a butterfly garden; a cement pad for skateboarding?? is located at the bottom of the hill behind the playground
Seating: 2 park benches facing the smaller play structure, and a stone wall that can be used as seating wrapping around the back of the playground; there are also a few park benches scattered around the paved trail through the park
Shade: no shade on the playground structure, shade from the surrounding trees over some park benches in the area
Overall assessment: A great central playground for big and small kids. Even though the rock climbing wall is an older model than some, it is one of the best as it leads to a lookout tower with a fireman pole! And this is one of the rare parks in Pickering that has a washroom building (operating seasonally 10am to 8pm). Don't forget to see if you can spot a butterfly in the field of bushes beside the tennis courts (labelled as a butterfly garden)!
