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Welcome to the Playground

The Dufferin Grove Park playground is popular with kids of various ages. There is an enclosed playground with traditional wooden play structures, and a wading pool. The adventure playground sandpit is fun for little kids and budding engineers (up to age 12) alike. And the Cob Courtyard turns into a summer snack bar as well as a cleanup station for picnickers. Most of the food is prepared from organic produce from the Farmers' Market, in the Zamboni Kitchen and the bake ovens.

Planning a visit?

The wading pool officially is open from the end of June to the end of August, seven days a week from 11 am to 6 pm, although if the temperature is over 29 degrees, the pool will stay open until 7.30 pm.

The cob courtyard has its water turned off during the winter, visit the washrooms in the north west end of the park if you need water.

The sandpit, also known as "the adventure playground" is monitored by park staff. After 9pm in the evening water will not be available.

Dufferin Grove Park: the movie.

In 1993, when the adventure playground was first put in (it was then called "The Big Backyard"), Elyse Pomeranz offered to do some art activities with the children. Elyse did unusual, wonderful things at the "Big Backyard," as the adventure playground was then called. In 1994 we asked Elyse's film-maker husband Amnon Buchbinder to make a short film about what was happening there. With Amnon's permission, Wallie Seto has just uploaded this film to Youtube (in two parts, because it's a bit over the maximum of 10 minutes).

Here is "The Big Backyard, Everyone Welcome," a short film about the early days of the Dufferin Grove Park adventure playground. Thanks to Wallie Seto for uploading this to YouTube and making it available.

Latest news Wading pool rebuild Good news -- the City has dropped its plan to schedule the wading pool “face-lift” for this spring. The planned completion date of June 20 would most likely have caused the wading pool to be closed for part of the summer. Read More >> Playground Rules Of course there are no dogs allowed in playground, ever, nor EVER in the wading pool (public health rules require the staff to drain the pool if a dog gets in there). International Playground Photos

The Sandpit an oval of sand about 20 feet wide by 40 feet long, ringed by big wooden logs. It was put into the park in 1993. Galleries

The Enclosed Playground Come and see action, excitement, families gathering, people happy, communities doing what they should be doing The Cob Courtyard This project aims to engage all users of the park, especially the parents and children who make the south end of the park their summer home. The Wading pool Children find water a wonderful play material for floating things, a little splashing, the gentle pleasant feeling of water, currents, rivers, waterfalls and fountains.

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