Adventure playgrounds

[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.

[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.

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.

[kidicarus13]

The rocket reminds me of the old Mayor McCheese jails.

Jails 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..."