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Vacation Guide: Find a Playground Anywhere
No matter how education-packed you want your summer vacation to be, sometimes the kids just have to blow off some steam. But you don’t have to blow mega bucks at an amusement park to make it happen.
Just find a playground. But not just ANY playground will do, so we’ve found someone who can help.
KaBOOM! builds playgrounds and play”spaces” around the nation, but they’ve also set up a playground finder online, where parents can post the good, the bad and the need-to-knows about playgrounds they’ve found while on the go. With some spots in better neighborhoods than others, some public, some private and some geared toward different age groups, KaBOOM! helps you plan a great escape from the rush, rush, rush of vacation.
Find out who has a baby swing. Who has a big slide. Who doesn’t clean up after the dogs.
Their goal is to hit one hundred thousand playgrounds on the map within one hundred days, and there are twenty-one days left to hit the goal (they’re almost halfway there at more than forty-nine thousand). Pull up the list to plan your vacation and input your favorite playground while you’re at it (I added mine!).
Want to help them build a playground? Send your kids’ grandparents online to talk about how they’re spending the summer outside with the grandkids, and grandparents.com will donate to KaBOOM! They’ll be putting up cash for every hour logged keeping the kids off the couch and out in the sunshine (so pack the sunblock for the trip to Granny’s).
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10 Summer Bummers and Babble’s Cure-Alls | Strollerderby commented on Jul 27 09 at 12:00 pmTetaZdena commented on Jun 10 09 at 6:10 pmActually, no, ANY old playground will do. Who would actually go online to research playgrounds where they are going to take a trip? It’s called swings, dirt, etc.
carefree childhood commented on Jun 10 09 at 7:32 pmI would. Knowing which playgrounds were reasonably clean, safe and not overrun with drug dealers would be great information in a strange city. However, the site has errors. When I entered my own address it said there was a playground at the local high school (there’s not) and it missed two beautiful playgrounds in a nearby park.
TetaZdena commented on Jun 10 09 at 8:04 pmWhere are you going on vacation – Tijuana? Why not ask the people you’re staying with or the hotel clerk? This website would have been worth billions in 1999!
Annie Lynsen commented on Jun 18 09 at 11:44 amThanks for helping to spread the word about the KaBOOM! Playspace Finder! In response to carefree childhood’s comment, it’s a crowdsourced tool, so errors can occur. We count on users like you to correct those entries. Anyone who signs up on the site has the power to update that information and add new playspaces to the database.
Cheers!
Annie Lynsen
Manager, Online Content & Community Development
KaBOOM!
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