I am sure some Seattle residents would throttle me for not giving this popular playground higher dues, so I guess it's a good things that I am a good arms length away (on a map).
Volunteer park is pretty much a Seattle institution and rightly so. It's a huge park sprawled across a hill with some lovely views, lots of grassy areas, wooden areas, picnic areas, a botanical gardens and an Asian Art Museum. And of course, there is the very popular playground too.
It's a weird one. For a start, the first thing I noticed about the climbing structure was that there was something oddly familiar about it and then I realized that the stairs were actually a spiral staircase. There are stone steps leading down into both the big kid area and the toddler area and in the middle of each set of steps there is a slide. It gave me an idea about implementing the same sort of slide system into office buildings for saving precious seconds at lunch time. The third unusual thing is a giant statue placed at the far end of the playground- the end that overlooks the enormous cemetery- which presumably is for climbing on.
Both the big kid structures and the toddler structures, which are on sand, have lots to do, but I didn't really feel that it was inspired. Then again, the sunlight coming down through the leafy trees was beautiful and the whole playground merges sympathetically with the surroundings. There are a total of five slides, a tunnel, lots to climb on, four swings (two big kid, one toddler, one therapeutic) and a couple of bouncy animals.
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