The Design Observer website recently featured playgrounds of the past that today could be thought of dangerous.
This playground equipment in Colorado is very similar to the original “Rocket Park” in Maplewood.
The author, Rob Walker, says he injured himself more than once on a “play-oriented public contraption.
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“There’s a sense of spinning risk that we used to simply accept as part of the cost of doing fun,” Walker states on the website.
I didn’t play on the old Rocket Park as a kid, but did have fun on it while taking my kids there. I thought of it as more fun than dangerous, though by the time it was replaced it was probably due.
Read the full article in Design Observer.
I used to love the old Rocket Park (that’s it’s real name, I don’t care what the sign says!) I never got hurt more than at any other place I played. Kids get hurt playing no matter where or on what equipment. From what I remember of it, it was fine. As long as we’re keeping an eye on our kids and they are listening when we tell them to not climb on the outside of the peak everyone would survive the park unscathed!
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