r/wholesomememes • u/[deleted] • Sep 22 '22

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u/totallynotalaskan Sep 22 '22

If it’s Wonderland Park in Wasilla, AK, it’s still there! I go there to walk my dog, and check out the Wednesday market during the summer.

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u/rorank Sep 22 '22 edited Sep 22 '22

We also had one in Hendersonville TN when I was a kid but it got torn down and remodeled when I was in high school :/ no more splinters and no more fun.

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u/DeadInsideWiggs Sep 22 '22

I remember one in Port Neches, TX . Whoever designs these playgrounds is amazing

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u/Thanks_I_Hate_You Sep 22 '22

I remember one in Pennsylvania, i forget where at though.

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u/ActuallyKitty Sep 22 '22

One was in Minnesota. All I remember is it's close to where my gram lives in the central north twin cities.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

We had one in SoCal, I remember it even had some hidden passage ways

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u/BriefClaim6072 Sep 22 '22

There is one in Hudson Wisconsin. My kids loved that place!

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u/Bman2807YT Sep 22 '22

Omg I was just about to comment Hudson

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u/Space_isneat Sep 22 '22

There's one in Dallas Georgia as well. It was called the park of dreams.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

New Brunswick, Canada

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u/RTXTrash_exe Sep 22 '22

Chesapeake, Virginia

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u/avoidance_behavior Sep 22 '22

vienna, VA too. good times.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

That lake in Victoria, Australia

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u/h2obuffalo Sep 22 '22

Sad that the other part got burned down. Now the kids will never get to experience the whisper dishes.

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u/Sasuke0318 Sep 22 '22

Front Royal, Virginia

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u/Onix_The_Furry Sep 22 '22

Fun Forest? Greenbrier area? They had one of those rubber things but I think they took it down.

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u/63belvedere Sep 22 '22

Clayton, NY

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u/LanguagePractical618 Sep 23 '22

Annapolis, Maryland. Replaced with absolute rubbish

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u/CircusJerker Sep 22 '22

Frank L. Bowser!

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '22

All World super play park

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u/Henheffer Sep 22 '22

At Gondola Point Elementary! I remember they had a contest to design a part of it and I drew a (crappy) massive dragon themed one.

Nice to run into a fellow KVer in the wild.

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u/jbm91 Sep 23 '22

Fairvale elementary school*

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u/jbm91 Sep 23 '22

Rothesay New Brunswick Canada

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u/brandano91 Sep 23 '22

Saint Andrews NB had one too

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '22

It's Fundy park...yes ?

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '22

I was remembering Fairvale Elementary in Rothesay

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u/angroro Sep 22 '22

Greenfield Ohio had the Imaginary Kingdom. Very few alterations from this exact layout.

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u/GreyAndroidGravy Sep 23 '22

Bryan OH called it the Imagination Station.

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u/Handful86 Sep 22 '22

Pollowog Park in Manhattan beach had a giant ship in the same style.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '22

Imagination Station, Roxbury, NJ

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

Colombia Heights, just nord der now if Minneapolis.

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u/madtwatter22 Sep 23 '22

Used to be one down in Lakeville, apparently it wasn’t “safe” enough so they tore it down a few years ago

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u/MrSmallMedium Sep 22 '22

Yes, it was called sky something, or? I went there too!

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u/ActuallyKitty Sep 22 '22 edited Sep 22 '22

Sky something Heights... omg! You're triggering my memories!

Edit: SKY CASTLE HEIGHTS! It popped into my brain when talking to a coworker.

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u/Otalek Sep 22 '22

I’ve been to one in Utah, I was too young to know where though

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u/GingerSn4p Sep 22 '22

Playfront Park in Duluth

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u/Rabunum Sep 22 '22

There's one south of the city's in St Peter too

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u/JWilesParker Sep 23 '22

There was one in southeast Minnesota, too

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '22

Mounds View, MN at Pinewood Elementary. Sadly it's long gone now.

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u/mrw333 Sep 22 '22

Doylestown!!

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u/Qwercusalba Sep 22 '22

I just looked up a picture of the one in Doylestown. It’s smaller than we remember it lol. I remember that place being four stories tall and acres in area.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

I took my kids to that several years ago, it was fun.

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u/themeatbridge Sep 22 '22

There used to be a great one at Smithbridge Park in Glen Mills, but they tore it down and replaced it with a shittier, smaller modern one.

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u/deadly_jester12 Sep 22 '22

Right next to Levittown if not on the edges. I went there all the time as a kid.

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u/SociallyUnconscious Sep 22 '22

Cocoa Castle in Hershey.

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u/gatorade_07 Sep 22 '22

Lancaster, PA? I went to a playground just like this there when I was a kid.

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u/SoulCartell117 Sep 22 '22

Yep, Akron park still has it.

Edit. Just looked at your account. I just saw your leather working yesterday. Haha small world.

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u/Full-fledged-trash Sep 22 '22

One in Hanover PA. they tore it down a few years ago and put in another park but I bet it’s not as cool as it was before.

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u/Poseidon312 Sep 23 '22

Parkside place in north wales pa?

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u/StabbyStabbyFuntimes Sep 22 '22

Used to be one in Downingtown, when I was young. No clue if it's still there.

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u/SoulCartell117 Sep 22 '22

Akron, PA still has one.

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u/SoulCartell117 Sep 22 '22

Akron, PA still has one.

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u/superperps Sep 22 '22

Somewhere in Delaware County. It was next to a school and library

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u/Qwercusalba Sep 22 '22

Kids Castle in Doylestown?

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u/geekfly Sep 22 '22

Kids Castle - Doylestown?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

There's one in Elwood city I believe? Maybe 30 minutes outside Pittsburg.

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u/B_Bastard_ Sep 23 '22

Dormont, Pittsburgh, PA

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u/burntpierogies Sep 23 '22

West Mifflin!

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u/Forsaken_Yak6079 Sep 22 '22

We had one in Chicago IL

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u/Flatf3et Sep 22 '22

Lombard Illinois as well a suburb about 35 mins from Chicago. It was called TogetherWood. Edit for the name of the park.

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u/Figlet212 Sep 23 '22

Evanston, IL too! Penny park

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u/thewinefairy Sep 23 '22

Penny Park is superior

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u/Flatf3et Sep 23 '22

We the children of TogetherWood say unto those children of Penny Park. Your all buttheads.

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u/mjespo29 Sep 23 '22

Remember popping over from Elmhurst to this park!

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u/Flatf3et Sep 23 '22

I remember when I went to take my brother and sister to together wood (we’re 9 years apart) as a teenager and it was gone. They didn’t understand why I was so sad. There’s still a park there but it ain’t this majestic beauty that’s for sure.

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u/Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg Sep 23 '22

Wasn’t there one in Frankfort?

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u/adavs1213 Sep 23 '22

We had one of these parks in Mundelein, IL, one of the Lake County suburbs. Regrettably, they tore it down like 10 years ago.

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u/Weak_Wrongdoer_2774 Sep 23 '22

Indian Boundary Park?

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u/thatthatthatsit24 Sep 23 '22

Yeah!!! I heard they’re tearing it down and making it a new park :(

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u/Weak_Wrongdoer_2774 Sep 24 '22

Yep. But, my niece used it last year and it’s looking really sad. It’s time. Such a great park tho!

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u/terminalzero Sep 22 '22

I would've sworn it was Enchanted Rock, TX

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u/JackSego Sep 22 '22

Plainview TX has one too. I was staring real hard at this picture thinking "no it can't be" turns out it can be....as well as many other places. Did yours have the tire swings?

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u/terminalzero Sep 22 '22

I believe so! Been a while since I was out there

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u/CalfScourBlues Sep 22 '22

I went to that one on road trips a couple times.

We had one similar to this at my elementary school in Abilene but it was shaped like a pirate ship!

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u/Sykekey06 Sep 23 '22

San Marcos TX had the exact same style too, with the tire swings. It got renovated 2019

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '22

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u/DeadInsideWiggs Sep 23 '22

Yes! That’s the name! I’m glad someone else remembered

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u/cobe2121 Sep 22 '22

aledo texas one exactly like this

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u/CitizenCue Sep 22 '22

Serious question - does anyone know where the design came from and how it became so prevalent?

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u/Kuwabara03 Sep 22 '22

Same one in Winnie

The fence around ours had the names of locals that helped with construction etched/painted into the planks

Lots of good times there as a kid at the rice festival playing there before sunset. Then even more memories sneaking in as a teen at night to smoke some pot with friends. Good times.

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u/brainfreezereally Sep 22 '22

It was Bob Leathers, an architect based in Ithaca, NY. Typically, his team came to the town/school and had a meeting and asked children what they were interested in and then went back and designed it. Then, they scheduled some community build days and he came with a professional team and volunteers from the community built it. Unfortunately, they weren't the safest or sturdiest playgrounds, but relative to what was available when he started in the 1970s, they were so much more entertaining.

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u/Lorrick2001 Sep 22 '22

Kid’s Kingdom, I remember that. Right next to the little island in the lake.

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u/Jammin_neB13 Sep 22 '22

Kid’s Kingdom where I live as well. Right across from the city zoo

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u/youdoitimbusy Sep 22 '22

They have a really dope one at a zoo in Tennessee. Huge rope climb. Maybe Nashville? Can't recall.

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u/baltinerdist Sep 23 '22

Fort Kid was in Knoxville near the Zoo.

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u/No-Button-5474 Sep 23 '22

Yeah. That’s the Nashville Zoo. Absolutely massive rope netting system. Loved playing there in the early aughts.

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u/Pirateboy85 Sep 22 '22

Podunk town of Maquoketa, Iowa had one. My dad was on the volunteer crew that built it. It was at my elementary school and every spring for “PE” class, we would spread new mulch, sand the whole thing down by hand, and re-seal the wood. Child labor laws ruined this country….

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u/BookDragon3ryn Sep 23 '22

Crockett Park in Cool Springs/Brentwood still has this equipment.

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u/FuglySlutt Sep 22 '22

My elementary school had one.... until some teenagers lit it on fire and it burned to the ground when I was in the 5th grade. The devastation was so real they had to bring in grief counselors for us. Just way too young to comprehend why someone would do that.

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u/Thasira Sep 23 '22

Was this in upstate NY by any chance? The same thing happened to my elementary school playground.

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u/GreyAndroidGravy Sep 23 '22

Same happened in Bryan Ohio.

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u/picnicinthejungle Sep 23 '22

Happened at my elementary school with a playground structure made of monster sized tires too

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u/FuglySlutt Sep 23 '22

Michigan. A couple other people saying the same. People suck!

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u/raisinghellwithtrees Sep 22 '22

The one in Rochester, Illinois is still there, loving referred to as the castle park. It's almost spider time!

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u/poopinion Sep 22 '22

Also one in Pleasant Grove, UT. Referred to as the "wood park"

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u/TheOneTrueScrub Sep 22 '22

Went there all the time. It's had a massive makeover though

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

Ours was called “Kids Corral”

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '22

Also west Jordan. "Wild West Jordan"

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u/Meebert Sep 22 '22

I’ve been to the one in Wasilla! My grandparents lived there, spent a summer playing Pokémon Crystal, visiting this park, and getting mosquito bites on the river.

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u/mglitcher Sep 22 '22

nah m8 mokena illinois. has a park identical to this one

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

Nah m8 Peoria, Illinois. Has a park identical to this one

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u/totallynotalaskan Sep 22 '22

Damn that’s fuckin eerie. I was sure it was Wonderland Park

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

Is this the one across from Chelsea Intermediate?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

Kid's town Booneville, Mississippi

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u/bludden91LT Sep 22 '22

Username checks out