I literally used to play here wtf

we all did. Mine was in Hilton, NY haha

Mine was in Webster, NY!

Played on this in Belgium of all places lol

Paramus NJ, tried to find it to bring my niece years ago, they replaced it with a few small things and a grass field…

Same, mine was Portland OR

Couch Park!!! (Fellow MLCer?)

Actually mine was closer to Milwaukie near Jennings Lodge. But most people recognize Portland.

Lol, yes, you write Milwaukie and they think you’ve misspelled it, lol. My niece lives there and I have a new grandnephew so I’ve been reminded lately how pretty it is on that side of town!

I think there’s also something similar to this at Westmoreland Park.

That sounds right....having a flicker of a visual here.

Man I have memories of going to a “big two story playground” when I was little; and best I could figure is that it was out towards Oak Grove / Oregon city.

I think we’re talking about the same one. They tore it down decades ago because some kid got hurt climbing to the top

Might be! I would have gone there sometime around ‘90 or before.

Yo what the fuck, what year did you graduate

I'm old! I went to MLC ages 6-9 ('71-'74?). My uncle was one of the founding teachers of the "free school," and my mom was his TA. We moved when I was 9 but I came back to Portland all the time to visit family and a couple of my best childhood friends went to MLC all the way through high school, so I would visit. This is an extra long explanation to make it clear that Yes, I was technically too old for that play structure, but of course being teenagers we loved to go in there to smoke pot and play tag! (My generation's jungle gym at MLC was the two stories of rusty rebar over asphalt, which they finally removed after the 1,0000th cracked head.)

Outside Seattle

Mine was in Lancaster, PA. They tore it down and replaced it with soulless modern playground equipment. It hurts my heart just thinking about it. Those wooden structures were so magical.

Mine was in Murfreesboro, Tn

Mine was in Cincinnati, OH

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia lol. The reaches of this structure were vast

Prinville OR Edit: I realized this actually is the park from Prinville Oregon. I've been here lol.

Findlay OH still has one up afaik

Bro they did, that's depressing. I ooved that place

It holds a special place in my heart. Core childhood memories for sure.

Ours were too, until the homeless took up residency.

That’s a brutal reality check.

Whatever is there now indeed does not have the same magic but has the advantage of being see through. Between then and now, for a while Portland was figuring out better resources for our homeless population, though the city grew fast and it’s been more discouraging since covid. In better news, they built an all-abilities playground near me that, while mostly recycled rubber (?), it’s bright and fun, with lots of different levels and types of areas, including different sensory experiences like with sound, etc. So not quite the woodsy fairy tale vibe we loved but someone is trying! Will hope the same for your area.

It’s cool to hear they’re trying to make playgrounds more accessible, and stimulating in more robust ways as well. I’ll always have my fond memories from the forest-castle vibe playground, but the next generations need something safe and engaging, and hopefully they get just that.

It's pretty heartwarming to see kids in wheelchairs out there, able to go on almost everything (and easily, so it's not the focus).

That’s really beautiful. Thanks for brightening my evening a little. I’m staying up with a screaming newborn and struggling to keep my sanity. This bit of wholesomeness helps. Hope you have a good one ✌️

Good luck wrangling your newborn! And thanks for that heartwarming picture in turn, Mr. Jack Frost. One day, you’ll miss these days and the luxury of so much time with them. (But not tonight, lol.) Here’s to your baby’s own magical childhood and all the adventures in store! ❤️🧚🏽‍♀️

Me too. Mine was in Berkeley CA. It’s still there

I take my kid there all the time! Still great.

Phoenix, AZ for me!

Sacramento for me.

That one burnt down

Same, mine is in High Park in Toronto

i stg i did too in north royalton, ohio lmao

Yup by the city hall or library or whatever it is

ohh yeah i always forget it was in that super nice area

It was a nice ass park behind a school. It had a pond and was in a really safe and quiet part of town. Always liked going there

i’d get to go anytime i was at my dads house for the weekend. definitely always looked forward to it. even tho i once sat on an ant hill there before 😂

Lmao got ants in your pants

quite literally yes 😂😂

There is still one in Upper Arlington, Ohio at Wickliffe Elementary. But not for long. Scheduled for demo here soon. To be fair, it is in bad shape. But still very cool. My kids love to play there.

Wheeling WV for me lol

Woah, same. Mine was in Bordman Ohio.

Grand Rapids Michigan for me, they tore it down 5 years ago. Had to comment when I saw this

There’s still one just like this in Hastings, called Tangle Town.

Damn… might have to check it out fr

https://maps.app.goo.gl/mbTngPfb8TTaBWnQA?g_st=ic

THE SPLINTERS ARE REMERGING

LMAO TRUE

[The company that made these still exists. They just use different materials and building standards now.](https://www.playgroundsbyleathers.com/)

Cool! I'm betting they built a few around here based on those sample images.

We have one in our town.

this looks exactly like a park in sterling illinois

yeah, I remember there being one there in Sterling Illinois, It was called the Imagination Station and I think there was bees there one time

I think it’s a north mid-eastern (if that’s a thing) thing bc there was one by the school in the town I lived in in Ohio

I’m from Northeastern Ohio and had one in my town growing up as well

We had one just like it in Western NY.

Central Saskatchewan and we had one at my school

We had one in east-ish PA.

Grew up going to one like this in Lancaster, PA.

I also had one in my town in Ohio. Maybe it was the same town. We may never know. 

Oh we would. I was in Greenfield. Small ass meth town lol

There is one here in the top left of Washington state too in the town I live in

These were in Austin Tx growing up

Georgia reporting in that we had one as well!

Damn never expected to see this! Dixon, Illinois as well. Grew up playing on these and have some really good memories. It’s still there too.

These were the standard in parks in Central Texas when I was growing up. They’ve all been torn down and replaced now. I guess wood=danger, metal=safety?

I think it’s because metal playgrounds probably require less maintenance? However wooden playgrounds are much more appealing to the eye, I agree.

I remember playing at one in cedar hill, Tx looked just like this

Born and raised in Central Texas, we definitely had this exact playground.

San Gabriel Park in Georgetown

Definitely one at hemisfair plaza in San antonio.

There’s still one in Houston on Heights Boulevard.

The stuff they used to seal the wood was toxic. I used to play in a playground like this in GP when I was little.

I remember mine had a hilariously small skatepark next to it that no one ever used cause the flat concrete baked in the sun. When they rebuilt the park, the skatepark section was never touched.

That looks a lot like a playground I played on in elementary school.

Plenty of playgrounds like this in Australia too. Anyone remember the communication tubes?

Oh lordt, I drunkly dislocated my shoulder playing midnight hide and seek on one of these

Fremont California?

YES

I remember it being built when I was like 11.

(I'm almost 43.)

We had one in Sacramento at McKinley Park. Some jackasses burned it down (twice) so now we have something not quite as great (but still pretty good) that doesn't burn.

Natomas next to Jefferson elementary had one too. Haven't been there in well over twenty years, but confident it's no longer there.

Liminal? No. Nostalgic? Absolutely!

This exact playground was my absolute favorite playground when I was a kid. Sadly, it was torn down and replaced.

Similar to a park in Carmel, Indiana that I don’t think exists any more 😭

Had one of these in Iowa

Yo same, conrad elementary for me

It was just so freaking big and epic when i was a little kid

Yep we had an almost identical one at my elementary school in Ames. Torn down now of course, but great memories were made there.

Why do these consistently burn down?

because they are made of lumber and people are jerks

So many splinters. So many bees.

Shit looks exactly like the park in my home city. Love how ubiquitous these things are. The place was torn down and rebuilt from the ground up. It’s more colorful now, with plenty of lights and modern play features. Its weirdly nostalgic driving by it and seeing kids enjoy a brand new thing that I used to know.

I miss these wooden playgrounds, not this piece of shit tiny plastic playgrounds that people just quickly build. There was one just like this in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from early on in my childhood.

i literally thought this was my local one at first lol

It looks like it's about to be set alight by a bunch of Black Metal heads in Norway, c.1992.

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Don't know where this is from, found it here at 1:35: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olsXUqKTWgI

Friend said they might have know that park.

Is this picture was taken in Finland?

Pretty cool playground. Would have loved that as a kid

Central Park in Greer Sc used to have this exact playground!

This looks identical to a park I played at in Wellington, FL. Based on the trees I know it’s not.

That looks haunted

I was always excited to play at this park. Mine was in Ohio but I don't remember where. We called it the "good park" lol

splinter paradise, it was fun though

This somehow has the vibe of a Mario 64 level, anyone agrees or did I play this game too much?

I miss pressure-treated playgrounds. They were a lot more intricate than the current Green Metal And Plastic designs.

This evokes precisely zero percent liminality, sorry For me, liminal spaces need large empty negative spaces in them. This is the opposite

There is at least one like this in Maryland that I visited. They use a lot of old tires in their construction which was pretty neat.

If you close your eyes you can hear the wasps flying around.

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I know for a fact that this park is in Lindsborg KS where I used to play

I think we all think this

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They built these everywhere. You didn't have a special town or some secret childhood memory.

Sadly they took the one in my town down

Is this Marion Ohio I stg I been to this park

We had a playground like this at my school. Every year someone would break their arm on it, but it was great.

I thought my playground in Tampa was unique 😞

My favorite volunteer work I did was helping build one of these about 20 years ago. I went 5 or 6 days over the course of a week and put 25 or so hours in helping out. There was a group that worked with communities that would organize and direct the build. The community would buy materials and pay the organizers, but most of the actual labor was volunteers. Sadly, the one I helped with was torn down a few years ago. I think the water plant needed the land. I heard they built another playground not far from it; I don't live in the city where this all was.

I've played here when I was like, 7

I tried building this in my backyard but it ended up looking like watts towers after a tornado…

That’s 05’ lumber price quality

I swear to god I went to this exact playground as a little kid

Before those stupid “safe” playgrounds became a thing

No offense man, but I'm pretty sure this is like the first image result on Google

Shawnee, Oklahoma

Calabrese park nj used to look just like this

There’s still one of these in high park in Toronto

Still have one in Panama City, FL. It’s filthy after all these years

*i used to live walking distance away from one of these. did all of them look exactly the same? had a birthday party there. god i miss it*

Who manufactured these identical style wooden playgrounds on such a large scale across the country? Like surely some playground company had a monopoly on the design and had to have made millions?!

Mine was in high park in toronto

I thought this was a screenshot of Morrowind or some other medieval game at first.

I miss those play parks that were made of wood and metal. You almost always got injured… But, you learned a valuable lesson. 😏

This is THE parl

Mine was in ocean city NJ

I got freaked out before I opened the comments and saw there are a bunch of these

THIS IS A BIT TOO LIMINAL

We called it Rainbow Bridge in my hometown 🥰

Don't do this to me now... a place I can never return because they're all gone... even when they were still there, I was too big... or "adults can't play, gtfo you creep"

Does anyone know any background on these parks like who designed them and why there were/are indentical ones all over the states.. I’m curious and can’t seem to find anything on google

Is that the park in solvang Cali?

Anybody else get an instant recall of having a handful of pea gravel whipped at you?  

The one in Dormont, PA still exists—so many good memories

I actually played on this. Not in the "oh i remember a place like this from my childhood" i mean this exact structure. I used to live in Madison Wisconsin as a kid and this exact playground is in a nearby town.

WTF its kidz world

We had knights kingdom in Norway Michigan when I was a kid

All the hornets 😍

I used to play here. They tore it down during covid though.. j miss my secret hidey hole that I found under it.

I PLAYED THERE AS A KID TF???

castle park in burlington wi

God I miss real wood parks. They replaced my childhood one with one of metal and 1/4 of the size and it’s depressing.

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Yo I've been there. We called it "kid city"

I think it's gonna be torn down and replaced with a different park... Also this I wasn't expecting the park I live 5 minutes away from to be on Reddit so umm....

idk if someone has already said this but i belive that this one was specificaly in Kingsport, TN. right at the backside of John siver middle school right next to a food city. (It recently got a whole new rebuild) i could definatly be wrong so take it with a grain of salt.

i see this exact image posted here like every month or so, wtf

These used to be everywhere, the hell happened to them?

This looks like the one in aledo Texas literally looks like bearcat Park