NorthWest Central Park PlayGround

Location: At the NorthWest corner of Central Park, just across the street from the 110th street C train subway stop; there is a gentle downward slope into the playground-area, the area is tree-covered and thus generously-shaded.

This park is very good, very fun. It receives FOUR PYRAMIDS, not our very highest rating, but certainly worth a fun visit!

Description: When you first walk in, you can choose to go to your left (mostly little-kid stuff), straight-ahead into the four-sprinkling stone-slab water area and SandBox toward the back, or veer right into the Giant Spider Web, space age Merry-go-Round, and spinning Tire Swing...

To the right:

A tiny spinning concave disk, kid-sized toddler 'climbing wall', some little-kid bucket swings highlight the array of little-kid activities... Even 8-year-olds can enjoy the climbing wall and solo spinner, as Julian is in the following pic:



There is a a lawn around the playground which served us well as a place for the boys' dog, Arthur, to frolic freely w/o scaring dog-wary children, parents. In the following pic, a boy inside the playground, who befriended Arthur, holds a ball he's about the throw over the fence for Arthur to fetch:



Straight-ahead as you enter the playground, there's a nice water-feature. Simple, it consists of four waist-high rock slabs, each spewing a fine spray of water. As this playground is well-shaded, water-features are not as centrally-important as in some other playgrounds... but that didn't stop several children from enjoying the spray!



Behind the sprinkler-area, in the center but toward the back of the park, is a sandbox, populated by highly-involved little-ones.

To the right as you enter the park-- get ready for Bigger-Kid FUN!

First, you'll run-across a space-age-looking, low-to-the-ground spinning ring. It's tilted slightly, goes round like a merry-go-round, higher and lower as you go around. Hold On!



Not far from the larger spinning-ring, there are also smaller solo-spinning disks, with curvy poles sticking upward out of them for kids to hold onto as they spin. In the following 2nd pic of the merry-go-ring, the solo-spinner is seen in the foreground:



But all of this is merely prelude to the park's Premier Feature: a pretty-large, imaginatively rich climbing rope web!



Leo has climbed to the top of the web structure in the following pic, sun streaming thru the trees behind him:



And in the following pic, the boys in close-up climbing their way up the web:



And a final, always-welcome feature finishes off this park with a final plus: a spinning tire swing is tucked into the far-right corner of the playground:



So, come enjoy NorthWest Central Park PlayGround!

We Did!!!