In an effort that blends environmental stewardship with honoring a local public servant, around a dozen volunteers braved the ...

Popular Penny Park in central Evanston may have exceeded the life expectancy of most wood playgrounds similar in construction, but residents aren’t ready to demolish it and replace it with a new ...

Three decades of Concord children grew up racing beneath the rainbow cupolas and wooden bridges of Monkey Around Playground.

The wooden 1990s playground structures were built for about 20 years of use if properly maintained, said Marc Leathers, president of the vendor company, New York-based Leathers and Associates.

Parks consultants told Evanston officials recently that Penny Park, the city’s only wooden playground and a recreation place for generations of families, could be restored to near its original ...

High levels of arsenic found in the wood doomed many of them about 10 years ago. Hamburg’s playground, which has been maintained regularly, was tested several times and never had high arsenic ...

Trustees said they didn’t anticipate the overwhelming, passionate, reaction they received after announcing on Facebook last Friday that the playground would be disassembled beginning Aug. 26.

ROXBURY -- The wooden playground is nothing except what you make of it. At first glance, it looks like many other playgrounds that dot towns throughout New Jersey. Use a little imagination ...

Seesaws Getting smacked in the head by a seesaw used to be a childhood rite of passage at the classic American playground, but no longer. There used to be classic wooden seesaws at more than 600 ...

ANSONIA >> The wooden playground at the Ansonia Nature Center that thousands of kids have played on for the past 25 years was torn down Tuesday due to safety concerns.