Tualatin Hills Parks and Recreation District (THPRD) has opened two fantastic new nature play areas. One is an Off-trail Play Area and the other is a Natural Playscape. These play area types are defined further in my previous post on THPRD’s Nature play guidelines.
Hyland Forest Park:
This piece of forest is set aside and free play is allowed. Fort building, exploration, digging and other activities are all allowed. It is part of a free play pilot project in the parks district.
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| The entire area is delineated by these signs, maybe every 30′. |
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| There are lots of fots already built and ready to add on to! |
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| There are more delicate built items like the ‘soup bowl’ |
Camille Park:
This is also in the THPRD park system, but it is a very different park. They consider this one a natural playscape. It is a mix of natural themed equipment and natural materials.
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| Walking up onto the play area it is almost hard to tell it is a play area! |
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| the more traditional equipment area |
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| The awesome log stack! |
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Logs are set on concrete footings and rebar adds support so they wont move around.
But these logs are huge! I can’t image they will move for a long time. |
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| Another view that I think is peaceful and beautiful especially compared to what a colorful climbing set would look like. |
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| sand play |
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