West Newbury, Action Cove

Here's the writeup for this magnificent five star playground located on Bachelor St. between Meetinghouse Hill Rd. and Middle St. in West Newbury. Action Cove is now up in the top FIVE of playgrounds in the North Shore. Similar to Eagle Nest in Essex, but even better with even more platforms, under-floor crawl spaces, and nooks.

Download the PDF at my web site:

www.visualvoices.net/publications/update.html

The photo is of course in color as is all the photos in the newly done addendums I have been posting.

Enjoy!

Action Cove, West Newbury

oh man.


Maybe this is why nobody in this area is carrying my book, because they see it as incomplete.

While working on the first edition of the book way back in 2004, somebody told me about this INCREDIBLE playground in Newburyport, "Action . . . something". They were unsure of the name. Well, the first edition did not include that area, so I wrote down the name and tucked it away.

Working on the second edition, I remembered this comment and tried to find it. Well, I thought I had found it when I saw Mosely Woods with all it's cool sculptural climbing structures and beautiful pine woods surroundings. It's in Newburyport.

Second edition comes out, $4000 worth of printing, two months later. I am told of Action COVE in WEST NEWBURYPORT.

Oh man.

So here it is. It is a 5 star playground and it is VERY similar to Eagle Nest Playground in Essex, but has been updated last year with plastic caps on all hand railings and plastic timbers on all flooring of the all wooden structure.


This is a very cool playground as was correctly told to me. It was a swelteringly hot day when we went to go visit this but there are many places to shelter from the blazing sun, including at benches and picnic tables.

It is located on Bachelor St between Sawmill Brook Rd/ Meetinghouse Hill Rd and Middle St. Closer to Sawmill Brook Road.

Look for the downloadable PDF at my UPDATE page at the web site:
www.visualvoices.net/publications/update.html

Give me a few more days, summer vacation is happening and I can't do any work while my kids are using the computer to play Webkins.

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.