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The Playground
The wooden playground was installed in 1983. In 2007, $79,000 was budgeted to replace this playground, but the Ward 18 councillor thought these funds were insufficient and neighbourhood families liked the playground as it was, so it was left in place. The surface is sand, and the playground has a wooden fence around it. One larger structure has a large slide and a bridge to a smaller slide, with four different gradients and surfaces to climb on (stairs, ramp, ladder, rope net), plus monkey bars at a height suitable for taller children. Beside this structure are three bucket baby swings. Another structure has a “room” with a small table and bench, a roof, another shelf at ground level, and twinned toddler slides. Monkey bars branch off this structure for smaller children, with a single, separate shorter bar for the very small. Children use the structures for imaginative play (“house,” “restaurant”) as well as for climbing, and older children often climb onto the roofs.
A small sandbox about 8’ x 8’ is suitable for babies not ready for the adventure sand pit. North of the structures are long swings with two bucket baby swings and four swings with strap seats. Nearby is an accessibility swing whose harness is missing. There is a toddler-sized spring teeter-totter, a two-person spring teeter-totter, and a four-person teeter-totter. There is also a spider climber. On the northwest corner of the playground is a wooden gazebo with benches, for shelter in the rain. This shelter has a step up to its floor that makes it inaccessible for wheelchairs.
The Wading Pool
Just west of the sand pit is the wading pool, divided from the sandpit by a long row of armour stone. There are a number of tall shade trees around the pool, it as well as newer tree plantings. Half of the pool is surrounded by grass with some picnic tables and a chess table. A long curved concrete base houses the water outlets and sprinkler jets to fill the pool, and this base also functions as a bench. Beside the concrete base for the water outlets is a drinking fountain with taps at three different levels, the lowest used for washing feet and giving dogs a drink.
In 2009 the wading pool was resurfaced with a “cementitious” layer over the concrete. However, this surface was slippery and caused falls, and in a few years it began corroding along the expansion joints of the underlying concrete. The Parks manager said the cementitious layer would be removed in 2017; however, the removal is still pending.