You can find Rainbow Park Playground on Rainbow Street just south of McKenzie. The park itself is mostly a green field with some trees dotted around and considering it's close proximity to both McKenzie and the Pat Bay Highway, it's surprisingly nice. And it's neighbour park, Swan Lake Park is fabulous, though more like trails, ducks and wooden trestles than swings and roundabouts.
So, speaking of playgrounds, this one is pretty good. You can park on Rainbow Street and if you get there early enough you can claim a spot of shade under one of the trees that is close to the playground. There are two climbing structures, a large one for bigger kids and a tiny little one-slide tower for the smaller kids. The big kid climbing frame has good climbing options including a wooden ramp with chain/wood supports to climb up, other climbing options and a separate 'thing' a sort of wooden platform with bars that one can climb on, linked to the main structure by one of those ladders in the air to hang from. The words aren't flowing today so forgive my vagueness.
There are two toddler swings and two big kid swings and the toddler swings are nice and high so that 'A' actually believed it when I told him that he'd be fired off to the moon if I pushed him any harder, which was just my way of getting out of pushing any more because my swing-induced repetitive strain was playing up.
There are no facilities here except for picnic tables and the whole thing is on a bed of sand. Oh! And there is another of those cool seesaws like the one in Sierra Park Playground except it doesn't seat four and it doesn't like my weight quite as much
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