If you’re looking for a pristine playground to take your pristine children, one where they can go down primary-colored plastic slides and land onto a cushioned surface, this post may not be for you.

For swings, slides and climbing frames in regular playgrounds, safety is usually considered paramount, though they may not always encourage children to play quite so freely. In contrast, the more ...

There was a place in Irvine, perfectly planned Irvine, that wasn’t born of any plan and encouraged not to have one. Behind the walls of Adventure Playground, there was mud. There was also wood ...

Huntington Beach’s Central Park was the place to go for a splashing good time Saturday, when city officials reopened the water-filled Adventure Playground after three years of pandemic- and ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Elijah Gudmestad looked long and hard at the two lengths of PVC pipe he was working on. When he secured the pipe in a vise for another round of cutting, his movements were smooth and ...

Eve Mosher was getting frustrated. Her children, ages 4 and 6, encountered rules everywhere they went to play in New York City. Even at parks and playgrounds, expressly built for the purpose of play, ...

At so-called adventure playgrounds, kids are given hammers, nails, paint, scrap wood — anything they want, really — to make whatever they want. These playgrounds are popular in Europe, but in the ...