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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:
Accessibility Features: 2 saucer swings
Facilities/Other:
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!
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
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 |  |
