Missing Playgrounds, Gloucester

Well, Eagle Tribune's Playground Rating web site has actually helped me. Through the web site, I see I have missed 5 playgrounds in Gloucester.

FIVE?!!!!!

drat.

They are:
Joseph Palazola Playground
Babson Playground
Brown's Field
Middleton Playground
Ganine Nancy Doucette Playground

Here's Joseph Palazola Playground:



Each of the five playgrounds have INCREDIBLY similar play structures to each other as well as to others in Gloucester. So when we were going to rates these, we quickly got bored with them for the play structures are the same at Cripple Cove, Sargent Street Park, and Fort Point Playground.

AWW MAN. I MISSED ONE A BIG ONE

After the printing of the first edition, someone told me of this really great playground in Newburyport called ACTION PARK. Well, working on this second edition which includes Newburyport, I looked for this Action Park. I couldn't find it and Newburyport Park and Rec had no idea what I was talking about. But Newburyport has a couple of FANTASTIC playgrounds, Moseley Woods, and Cashman Park, so I thought that maybe one of these was Action Park and the locals call it such but not the city.

Well, I now found out the Action Park is in West Newbury. I haven't gone to it, but it is suppose to be phenomenal. Dagnabbit. Lest you think I did not do my job, I called West Newbury about their playgrounds and they said that the one I have listed (Page School) is the only one in the city. Well, apparently not.

Pictures to come.

It's okay. It's okay. Happy place happy place.

Noooooooo, ANOTHER PLAYGROUND!

Just when you think you have found all the playgrounds and you have almost finished the insides of the book, you go for a casual drive with your family and discover a playground not in your book. Doooooh!!!!! Is it even worth putting it in? My editor says "yes." She's such a perfectionist . . .

Playground #151, DiBiase Park in Salem..