73 Justice Way, Gorham, ME 04038
By far one of my favorite playgrounds with few disadvantages. It’s easy to find and easy to park! It might take a minute or two to walk to the playground but once you’re there, there is so much to do it might be overwhelming at first.
There are so many structures here and most of them are connected by bridges, a tunnel or a spider web climbing rope. You can enter the ramp and follow it to a swaying seating area although it takes A LOT of strength to move this thing. There are monkey bars and a handle bar near by. The monkey bars lead to a platform to either stairs or a fabric bouncy bridge. This bridge leads to a see through tunnel and a slide on the other side.
Going through the the tunnel will lead to two slides, one metal and one twisty slide. Both which don’t get too hot because of the shade provided by the rest of the playground. Next to the twisty slide is where kids can pretend to drive with two steering wheels attached to the playground. Going opposite of the tunnel is a small(ish) rock wall with a chain for holding on or a small rock ladder climbing piece. This half of the playground is connected by a spider web climbing rope which my 4y LOVES. It dips down, twists and then goes back up to another platform.
Theres a few things you can do from the spiderweb. You can go down another bigger rock wall or a double slide, which again doesn’t get hit by the sun so it doesn’t get too hot. Another option is to go onto a holey wall which from the top gets lower and lower. The last option is to crawl or climb over, what I call, a caterpillar ladder.
Climbing over the caterpillar ladder leads to a triple slide, one goes straight and the other two curve around the middle straight one. The other way down (or up to these slides) is a steep curved ladder, which my 17m could do with supervision and a little guidance. If your kid decided to go down the hole wall they’ll come to a step which leads to a step to a balance beam and another step.
Now that’s just about everything thats connected with a few smaller things around or attached to the playground. Leading from one of the rock walls is low to the ground steps that kids need to step to with each foot. This then leads to a curved monkey bar structure and this goes to a giant neutral colored but rainbow shaped spider web net type climbing sturcture. At the end of this is a twisting spiral climbing ladder that kids have to have some sort of balance control to climb to the top, neither of my kids have this skill so they just stand on the bottom rung and spin. Next to this is another spider web circular shaped climber.
There are two stand alone seesaw. One seesaw is a double seater, meaning four kids can use it at once. The other is a seesaw meant to be stood on while going up and down. There is what I assume is a stage platform with 8 seats in front, the seats are small round platforms on posts.
Tucked in the corner is a big sandbox with two diggers. There’s a table here too, with two sinks with little drainage holes at the bottom for you to sift sand through. Attached to the table is also this cylinder shaped thing for kids to move a good amount of sand from the ground to the table top.
Next to the sandbox is my kids favorite thing. It’s near impossible to get them off or to take turns. I call them rollercoaster swings. One isna small round plastic seat in which kids wrap their legs around and then get pushed from platform to platform on a hilly metal beam. Next to it is a chair that has a lock on it and you do the same thing, swing/pushed from one end to the other on this hilly beam structure.
Around the playground are two swing sets, no bucket swings but there are two chairs swings (with no locks or buckles) and regular swings. There is a set of three spinning chairs that move with the weight of the child. On the concrete is a variety of ball games and hopscotch. The field here seems to go on and on and on and on and on and on and– you get the point, it’s a never ending field.
I mentioned there were a few disadvantages and those are: no bathrooms and little shade. Off to the side of the playground there are some trees and a smaller grassy area that parents could sit and watch from afar but this isn’t best if you have younger children or toddlers who need a little guidance on the climbing structures. Some of the playground is shaded only because the other parts of the playground are tall enough to shade the smaller parts, if that makes sense.
Overall I love this playground. It tests my 4y abilities to climb and she attempts one of the climbing web things each time we go and she gets higher and higher up each time. My 17m is successfully climbing ladders and what not so the various climbing ladders here help him practice that. He looks at the webbing climbing sturctures but he’s not ready to tackle them just yet. The chair swings and the rollercoaster swing relaxes him..maybe a little to much because he just sits there so comfortably refusing to get off for anyone. The sandbox is also a big hit, whether it’s my kids or someone else’s there’s always a kid or two in it. My 4y also loves the stage and puts on quite a good show should you ever be here the same time as us you might get to catch one of her shows where she shows off her dancing and singing skills.
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