French Regional Park Playground, Plymouth, Minnesota

We visited French Regional Park because we were told about a fabulous playground in the park (it also has hiking trails, sledding hills, and fishing/boating/swimming lakes). Imagine our surprise when we discovered this:

A+ for creativity! Maybe not so much for durability...

We did not find any official story online or posted near the cardboard playground. We assumed it was some sort of day camp project at first, though the structures are much larger than they look in the picture and have lots of scaffolding to hold it up and let people walk around inside.

Up high

It even has a slide

The slide is even functional

A lot of detail went into the work, including a spinning wheel to determine your fate after going through the "Ghost Door." 

Facing his doom

After checking our cell phones, we realized this was not the fabulous playground that everyone brags about. That was further in to the park. The over-two-story climbing and sliding playground looked awesome even from the parking lot.

So big, it does not fit in one picture

The tallest part

The kids had a lot of fun climbing ladders and cargo nets as they went all over the structure. Their cousins showed up and added to the merriment.

Sneaking through

The far end

While I was there, I snuck off and found a bunch of geocaches which are part of the August 2021 geocaching post.