Funnily enough, you can find Beckwith Park Playground in Beckwith park on Beckwith Ave. This wonderful Saanich Playground was re-done recently and is hard to fault.
The Playground is in a couple of parts. There is a big kid structure that is joined to a smaller kids structure and a separate activity area with lots of things to climb or run through, twist, push, shout into etc. In this separate activity area, there is also a mock ships bow which seems popular with the little kids and 'A' got right on the seat there and started barking out orders to the crew.
The whole playground is brand-spanking new and the main structures feature a ton of climbing options, a double high metal slide on the big kid side, a double lower metal slide on the smaller kid side and lots of activity features scattered throughout. There is also a wavy slide thing, which I am still not sure is for going up or down on. 'A' went up it, but I saw someone come down and it looked painful to me but the child didn't seem to mind. There are lots of other 'things' for which I have no names, for climbing and playing on- far too many to photograph.
There are four swings: two big kid, one toddler and one therapeutic. If I was going to pick faults I would say that for how popular this playground is, there could be more swings. The whole playground rests on a bed of woodchips and there is a lot of grass in the park itself to run around on. If you add in the Frog Pond water park, which is buddied up next to the playground, then this park is hard to beat. There are picnic tables, benches, parking, a washroom block and the whole place has been landscaped nicely.
Frog Pond hours below- click to enlarge the picture.
Beckwith is great but the lack of shade trees is a big deal to me. If you want a great waterpark with playground and shade try Carnarvon Park. Behind the tennis courts is the water park commonly known as Peter Pan waterpark. We love it there and can spend 4 hours there in the summer.
ReplyDeleteNice playground, water park was geared for older kids as my toddler doesn't like the powerful ground sprays or overhead showers. We loved the grass fields for playing soccer. My big gripe though, was no soap dispensors to be found in the washrooms...and they need to oil those doors!!
ReplyDeleteI am disappointed that the new playground only has one baby/toddler swing. The one swing was being used by another family and it was hard to keep my 10 month old from eating the wood chips while keeping an eye on my 3 year old. An extra baby swing would have been great on such a busy day.
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