Pratt School in Minneapolis

Here's another one. This is at Pratt School, also in Southeast Minneapolis. The manufacturer is my favorite, Kompan. They have such unique structures. We've been to this one before and it used to have this giant web strung between the two structures. Unfortunately, it is now gone. Oh oh.

The other notable thing about this playground is the ground cover. They have layed down a layer of that fancy chopped-up-rubber-tire stuff. Very cool.


Rating: Three stars

Luxton Park in Minneapolis

We took a trip to Minneapolis last week to visit Obaachan (grandma). We stopped off at a non-descript playground in Luxton Park in SE Minneapolis. They still loved it since it was a playground. Just old, and the playground wasn't that clean. They do have a small, public wading pool with a spouting water fountain.

Rating: Three stars

ARTICLE IN NEWSPAPER

Okay. So I have yet to get press releases out to the media about the second edition. Still trying to get the books into a few new stores, and even just IN Newburyport.


But the Salem Evening News (which also prints the Newburyport paper, The Gloucester Times, and the Lynn paper) teased an article on Saturday for their Monday edition about "Playground Ratings on the North Shore." COOL! Although no one contacted me, maybe they just took it upon themselves to do an article about the best playgrounds using my book as a reference.

Well, if they did I did not get any mention for it. I am so sad.

The article was great and they chose: Lynch Park, Beverly; Ross Memorial, Peabody; Touch the Sky, Beverly; Forest River, Salem; and Endicott Park, Danvers. I'll kind of agree with that. But I sure wish they could have contacted me about some input or assistance. They have quoted my book several times already. WHY COULDN'T YOU JUST MENTION MY BOOK!!!!

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#1 RATED PLAYGROUND

I thought maybe you would like to see the #1 rated playground in the book in glaring full color. The photos just don't do it justice though. But here they are. Stage Fort Park, Gloucester.

A view towards the visitor center (on the left) and the gazebo.


This is a view from the top of the hill looking towards the ocean. It's about January when some of these photos were taken. Stage Fort is still being redone and is only about halfway done. You can see the lighthouse structure way in the background. The boat and truck structure are in the middle left background.


Here's a closer view of the play structure.


The boat and lighthouse structures.

This is a view of Half Moon Beach taken from atop a rocky outcrop over looking the beach.