Adventure playgrounds

[Irving]

Here is an article about bringing back less sanitized and standardized playgrounds. I hope it takes off and we can get high dives back into pools. I'm so tired of some 16 year-old telling me not to do back flips.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/08/can-risky-playgrounds-take-over-the-world/565964/

[hurley842002]

My kids elementary school has this:https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180824/e79fad62e1d08523817fa87c6c8ceee0.jpg
Seems like it could be dangerous, but we encourage being adventurous, so we were quite happy about the giant "spider web" as the boys call it.

[newracer]

I remember getting these going to ludicrous speed, hardly see them anymore.

https://5.imimg.com/data5/NC/AD/MY-3473685/revolving-deluxe-whirl-merry-go-round-500x500.jpg

[CS1983]

Feast your eyes:

https://i.redditmedia.com/-tb0aY01WAX8ryMVC-4BMHuCzt0zLVU3SAEPvzy8tMY.jpg?w=944&

https://i.redditmedia.com/-tb0aY01WAX8ryMVC-4BMHuCzt0zLVU3SAEPvzy8tMY.jpg?w=944&

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/50h4ne/school_playground_equipment_in_the_year_1900/

[ray1970]

I liked those old metal slides. You know, the ones that would get to like 300 degrees in the sun.

[Ah Pook]

I remember getting these going to ludicrous speed, hardly see them anymore.

https://5.imimg.com/data5/NC/AD/MY-3473685/revolving-deluxe-whirl-merry-go-round-500x500.jpg

Dude, we went to plaid.

[OtterbatHellcat]

I liked those old metal slides. You know, the ones that would get to like 300 degrees in the sun.

Great fun while wearing shorts too.

[Great-Kazoo]

rubber coated metal swings, suspended by 1" chain link. See-Saw's where you'd jump off and the other kid would slam to the ground.

[cstone]

Broomfield just opened a new playground near McKay Lake. They also have two bike parks.

The teeter-totter/see-saw brings back sore gonads memories.

[thvigil11]

I loved the old seesaws we had. Just a long ol board with no handles. Made it fun to try and ride your bike up one side and down the other.

[Irving]

The middle/high school by my house just built one of those climbing net things like they have at Cave of the Winds and Boondocks. I'm excited to go play on it.

[Irving]

I remember getting these going to ludicrous speed, hardly see them anymore.

https://5.imimg.com/data5/NC/AD/MY-3473685/revolving-deluxe-whirl-merry-go-round-500x500.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcWydPZypPs

[hurley842002]

Littleton just rebuilt the playground at Sterne park, there is a new, higher tech mary-go-round, but I still managed to spin it around fast enough to "fling" my 5 year old off.....

[Great-Kazoo]

Littleton just rebuilt the playground at Sterne park, there is a new, higher tech mary-go-round, but I still managed to spin it around fast enough to "fling" my 5 year old off.....

If he didn't puke, you were too soft on him. Get him to chow down on a 7-11 hot dog then a quick stop at dairy queen, before your next quality time with him outing.

[MrPrena]

Remember these rockets from playground?

https://i.imgur.com/5VuEjwV.jpg

[Irving]

Playground in Golden had that. Been a few years though.

[MrPrena]

Those rocket might create some good imagination of them being astronaut/Scientists/Engineer.

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[StagLefty]

Old school steel swings,steel slides,concrete surfaces. It's a miracle we survived haha

[OtterbatHellcat]

If he didn't puke, you were too soft on him. Get him to chow down on a 7-11 hot dog then a quick stop at dairy queen, before your next quality time with him outing.

[LOL]

[OtterbatHellcat]

Remember these rockets from playground?

https://i.imgur.com/5VuEjwV.jpg

Adams County Fairgrounds used to have a huge one of those in the 70's, don't know if it's still there or not. Had some good times there when I was a youngster.

[ChickNorris]

Loveloveloved those rockets!

[.455_Hunter]

Not surprisingly, Scott Carpenter Park in Boulder still has a rocket.

[TFOGGER]

Old school steel swings,steel slides,concrete surfaces. It's a miracle we survived haha

Yeah, my elementary school had a thing they called the "boat" which was basically a number of telephone poles set in the ground in a kind of diverging cone, with a couple of platforms set about 6-8 feet off the ground with a bunch of potentially maiming swings and such, along with a crows nest about 15 feet up, reached by a rope ladder. That shit would never fly today. They also had 4 ten foot sections of about 4 foot diameter concrete sewer pipe, arranged in a rough semicircle and painted to look like train cars. I dunno how many teeth were lost falling off of them...

[Gman]

When I was growing up, most of the equipment was on asphalt, including the monkey bars and swings. Who wanted to maintain gravel? Blood washes off.


http://youtu.be/Lwo9AvTA5xY


http://youtu.be/QfOmCmc-syc

[ben4372]

Found this park at 14th and Knox. It used to be the hood. It is a fantastic park. Worth the drive. lots of potentially dangerous things. Maybe the tide is turning?

[Irving]

Looks like heat stroke waiting to happen.

[MrPrena]

When I was growing up, most of the equipment was on asphalt, including the monkey bars and swings. Who wanted to maintain gravel? Blood washes off.


http://youtu.be/Lwo9AvTA5xY


http://youtu.be/QfOmCmc-syc

ROFL. I can't stop laughing at the 1st video.
They pass the ASStronaut centerfuge program.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

The rocket reminds me of the old Mayor McCheese jails.

75834

[kidicarus13]

The rocket reminds me of the old Mayor McCheese jails.

75834Jails as playground implements would somehow be seen as racist these days. I'm getting old enough to start saying, "Back in the good 'ol days..."