Norwood Park
Equipment by Henderson, Kompan, Berliner Seilfabrik Surface: rubber Norwood Park is part of an impressive but underrated cluster of...
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Danforth Dad
- May 19
- 2 min
Graydon Hall Park / René Gordon PS
Equipment by Big Toys, Blue Imp, Little Tikes Surfaces: sand, wood chips. Although Casa Loma is Toronto’s best-known example of...
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Danforth Dad
- Apr 27
- 2 min
Diefenbaker PS
Equipment by Henderson, Little Tikes. Surfaces: wood chips, sand. There are some older-generation wooden playgrounds around the city that...
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Danforth Dad
- Apr 15
- 2 min
REJUVENATION: Hillcrest Park
Equipment by Landscape Structures. Surface: wood chips. Updated April 2023. Old review here. The Hillcrest Park playground rejuvenation...
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Danforth Dad
- Mar 28
- 2 min
Earl Haig PS
Equipment by Henderson, Landscape Structures. Surfaces: sand (senior playground), artificial turf (junior playground 1), wood chips...
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Danforth Dad
- Mar 24
- 3 min
Joshua Glover Park
Equipment by Henderson, Kompan, Earthscape. Surface: rubberized wood chips. On a beautiful first sunny day of spring, we visited our...
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Danforth Dad
- Mar 23
- 3 min
Cloverdale Park
Equipment by Little Tikes, Miracle Recreation. Surface: rubber. On a beautiful first sunny day of spring, we visited our 199th and 200th...
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Danforth Dad
- Feb 25
- 2 min
Earl Beatty PS
Equipment by Blue Imp, Little Tikes. Surface: wood chips. Toronto’s got plenty of parks and schools named for Earls – Bales, Grey, Haig –...
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Danforth Dad
- Feb 16
- 1 min
Cy Townsend Park
Equipment by Henderson, Kompan. Surface: rubber. Of Toronto’s six former boroughs, York is the one that I’ve explored the least, so one...
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Danforth Dad
- Feb 14
- 2 min
Princess Street Park / St. Lawrence Co-Op Daycare
Equipment by Little Tikes Commercial Surface: rubber. It might not have a wide variety of equipment, and it won’t keep anyone over five...
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Danforth Dad
- Jan 4
- 2 min
Bayview Village Park
Equipment by Henderson. Surfaces: rubber, sand, grass. North York might have more old-school wooden play structures left than any of...
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Danforth Dad
- Jan 3
- 1 min
Regent Park
Equipment by Kompan. Surface: rubber. The playground at Regent Park has one of Toronto’s largest selections of Kompan equipment, and...
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Danforth Dad
- Dec 8, 2022
- 2 min
Melbourne Avenue Parkette
Equipment by Kompan, Berliner Seilfabrik. Surface: rubber. Okay, this is a post about the Melbourne Avenue Parkette, but we’re going to...
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Danforth Dad
- Dec 7, 2022
- 2 min
Centennial Park (Exhibition Place)
Equipment by Landscape Structures. Surface: wood chips. Not to be confused with the much larger Centennial Park in Etobicoke, this small...
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Danforth Dad
- Nov 11, 2022
- 2 min
Cedar Brook Park
Equipment by Henderson. Surfaces: sand, wood chips. Cedar Brook Park sits in a lovely ravine that is part of the Highland Creek system,...
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Danforth Dad
- Nov 2, 2022
- 2 min
Dr. Lillian McGregor Park
Equipment by Kompan. Surface: rubber. Named for one of Toronto’s most prominent and accomplished First Nations women in recent memory,...
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Danforth Dad
- Oct 25, 2022
- 2 min
Roywood Park
Equipment by Henderson. Surface: rubber. We visited Roywood Park on the kind of beautiful, clear fall day that could make any playground...
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Danforth Dad
- Oct 21, 2022
- 2 min
60 Howard Street
Equipment by Earthscape, Kompan. Surface: rubber. There’s a certain type of playground popping up in Toronto’s downtown neighbourhoods...
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Danforth Dad
- Sep 18, 2022
- 2 min
REJUVENATION: Dieppe Park
Equipment by Landscape Structures. Surface: rubber. UDPATED SEPTEMBER 2022. OLD REVIEW HERE. Thanks to a recent rejuvenation, this East...
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Danforth Dad
- Sep 11, 2022
- 2 min
Williamson Road Public School
Equipment by Henderson. Surfaces: wood chips, sand. Heading towards Queen Street on the 64 bus with my daughter recently, this charming...
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