Area: North Oshawa (2500 Kentucky Derby Way, Oshawa, ON)
Age Range: toddler and up
Parking: small parking lot with 5 stalls plus 2 accessible stalls
Ground Cover: mulch
Main Equipment:
Accessibility Features: music station, bucket swing
Facilities/Other:
Surrounding Park Area: A small green space in front of the park, and a bike lock station
Seating: 3 covered picnic tables between the playground and splash pad, 2 park benches by the half basketball court, and two long metal team benches behind the playground in the soccer pitch
Shade: none over the playground
Overall assessment: A cool new themed park based on the old Windfield Farm site (neat fact; the climbing boulder was original to the old Windfield Farm and was incorporated into this playground design). The kids loved the barn 'loft' and the really steep racing slides. They look steep but don't go quite as fast as you'd expect. One of the neat features we haven't seen very often anymore is a climbing ramp with rope to pull yourself up. It uses all kinds of coordination and muscles! They've already asked to go back to the 'farm playground' so I guess the theme was a hit!
Age Range: toddler and up
Parking: small parking lot with 5 stalls plus 2 accessible stalls
Ground Cover: mulch
Main Equipment:
- 3 slides
- 1 swing
- 1 bucket swing
- 1 infant swing
- 3 spinners
- 1 teeter rocker
- 1 giant climbing boulder
- 1 musical station
- 1 farm gate sales stand (ok we made that up, but it is a great pretend play barn!)
Accessibility Features: music station, bucket swing
Facilities/Other:
- Sandy Hawley splash pad
- half basketball court
- soccer pitch with 2 long team benches
Surrounding Park Area: A small green space in front of the park, and a bike lock station
Seating: 3 covered picnic tables between the playground and splash pad, 2 park benches by the half basketball court, and two long metal team benches behind the playground in the soccer pitch
Shade: none over the playground
Overall assessment: A cool new themed park based on the old Windfield Farm site (neat fact; the climbing boulder was original to the old Windfield Farm and was incorporated into this playground design). The kids loved the barn 'loft' and the really steep racing slides. They look steep but don't go quite as fast as you'd expect. One of the neat features we haven't seen very often anymore is a climbing ramp with rope to pull yourself up. It uses all kinds of coordination and muscles! They've already asked to go back to the 'farm playground' so I guess the theme was a hit!
