Neighborhood Park with Natural Play Features to Encourage Children’s Exploration

Exploration Park and Playground is a neighborhood park and playground in Mill Creek, Washington. There are parkour play structures, a zig-zagging log balance beam, play logs, a beaver cave, a tunnel, a twin slide, rocks to climb and scramble over, two big kid swings and a basket swing, bridges, and a well-drained open field behind it all. The ground under the play structure is bark chips. A concrete sidewalk rings the circular park and a small bridge is incorporated into the loop, under which stormwater drains. The loop is perfect for stroller-pushing, scooters and even learning to ride a bike. The kids can really let the imaginations run wild as the playground presents strong landscape imagery in its structural elements and overall design.

There are twenty-two parallel parking spaces on North Pointe Circle around the perimeter of the park. There are multiple wheelchair-accessible picnic tables here too if you want to have a snack or lunch while you’re here, so be sure to pick up something on your way.

According to the City of Mill Creek: “the drainage [was] the most expensive element of the project.” They spent a ton of money so that the grass field at this park isn’t a soggy mess like it is at so many other area parks. If your kid loves grass and you hate mud, check out Exploration Park and Playground!  

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