Playgrounds

Spraygrounds memorial day

Spruce Street Harbor Park and many spraygrounds open during Memorial Day weekend

Franklin Square's playground is getting a climbing tower, rope swing and zip line

Climbing Tower Franklin Square

Chinese Lantern Festival and Kidchella: Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide

Family-Friendly

Smith Memorial Playground to host family-friendly 'Kidchella' music festival later this month

kidchella smith playground

'Abbott Elementary' set its latest episode at Smith Memorial Playground, but it wasn't filmed there

Abbott Elementary playground

Shooting at East Oak Lane playground injures 5 teenagers

East Oak Lane mass shooting

New FDR Park playground to open with largest swing set on the continent

FDR Park megaswing

Kids at Play indoor playground and therapy center moves to Roxborough

roxborough kids at play

West Philly rec center to be renamed after worker who was fatally shot there in September

Tiffany Fletcher Recreation Center

Family-Friendly

Smith Memorial Playground's Winter Wonderland to feature ice carving, s'mores

Smith Memorial Playground Winter Wonderland

Recreation center employee killed after being struck by stray bullet in West Philadelphia

Tiffany Fletcher Shooting Rec Center

Basketball court dedicated to Kobe, Gianna Bryant opens in West Philadelphia

Smith Memorial Playground celebrating Black History Month with Philly-centric exhibit

Smith Playground BHM

South Jersey parks slated to receive state funding for improvement projects

New Jersey parks

Philly rec centers, playgrounds may get better security cameras in response to gun violence

Philly playgrounds shootings

Two new basketball courts honoring Kobe, Gianna Bryant coming to West Philly this fall

Boardwalk rides to reopen at Jersey Shore next week – with limited capacity

New Jersey amusement parks

Fishtown Recreation Center gets Rebuild investment for pool, outdoor facilities

Fishtown Recreation Center receives Rebuild investment for pool, outdoor facilities

Philadelphia announces second round of Rebuild sites

Lawncrest Rec

Philadelphia reveals first of several 2018 Rebuild projects

Frank Glavin Memorial Park

Family-Friendly

Indoor playground celebrating two year anniversary with party

Kids At Play Indoor Playground

After a decade-long debate, Philly neighborhood will finally get new playground

Joyce Brady at McMichael Park

How an inexplicable legal battle left a Philly playground closed for years

East Falls Playground

Sidewalk chalk outside Philly playground: 'Why hug your dog but eat a cow'

Vegan message

East Falls playground foes to pitch community on McMichael Park plans

Joyce Brady at McMichael Park

Eagles swoop in to build playground at Northeast Philly school

Jeffrey Lurie painting 2016

What's old is new again: Playground battle returns to East Falls

Joyce Brady at McMichael Park

South Philly park: Stop letting dogs relieve themselves where kids play

Dog

Giant 'jungle gym' planned for Smith Playground in Point Breeze

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Parks and wreck: Unsafe, unsanitary city facilities in dire need of improvements

Mill Creek Parks March 2016

Parks and Recreation

Parks and Wreck

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Revitalization of Smith Playground breaks ground

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Opioid settlement Pennsylvania

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