Purple Playground Replacement

One of our children's favorite playgrounds was at the North Laurel Community Center. It was dubbed "the purple playground" because most of the equipment was a pleasant shade of purple. I've blogged about it here and here. 

The community center opened fairly recently (a little over ten years ago) and the plan was to add on a pool at some point. That time has finally come, which meant the removal of the purple playground as they extended the building to add the pool. As they were finishing up, new playground equipment came to replace the previous structures. My kids' initial reactions were, "It's not as good," though that was before they even tried it. We finally went last month to check it out.

"Green and blue playground" doesn't have the same ring to it

The area is about the same size but has a lot of different equipment, including a slightly taller slide and a sleeping bear. The bear was the first thing we saw walking in. It's clearly designed for smaller children to crawl through the log, so my kids did not do that. They did sit on the bear.

Ride 'em, cowgirl!

Shouldn't they let sleeping bears lie?

I thought one panel on the playground looked like a distressed face, though maybe I am the only one who can see it. 

Don't judge me!

A new spinning web climber is fun but not as great as the much larger structures that can be found at other playgrounds. This playground is focused on the pre-teen crowd, so I suppose they don't want anything too dangerous.

Climbing to the top is easy

Trying to get more spin

Another climber looks to me like an Apollo space capsule, but that might just be me.

Top of a rocket?

Don't take our picture!

Overall, the kids were surprised and satisfied with the new playground. We won't be coming as often as we used to when they were smaller, but we probably will go back. Or maybe play before or after visiting the new pool!