Plaground Pioneers!: Bruce Park Playground, Greenwich, CT

Welcome to my first blog post! I don't consider myself a "blogger" so please bear with my non-pro writing style. It probably isn't good form to start out a blog about playgrounds by talking about the mother-of-all-playgrounds, but I'm going to do that anyway.

I live in northern CT, but on Sunday (4/12) we were in Greenwich, CT visiting family and took a trip to the Bruce Park Playground. O...M...G! I think this is the biggest playground I've ever seen! There were so many different sections of this park/playground. There was playground equipment for little ones, a large sandbox area, slides built into the side of a hill (two metal slides and two slides made out of some kind of stone), swings, playground equipment with slides and movable platforms, etc. for kids that were a bit bigger, playground equipment that looked like caves and stones with rope obstacles, a spider web climbing thing, and even an old school tether-ball (and an older boy friendly enough to show my 5 year old how to play).

If that isn't enough, the whole thing is situated among hills, rocks, and trees AND has a small ocean view! With all that equipment to play with, my boys loved rock climbing and fighting "monsters" just as much, if not more.

This playground also happens to be across the street from the Bruce Museum in case you'd like to take in some art during your outing.

We didn't use them, but I did notice a small building with bathrooms. The water fountains didn't work but we refreshed with some ice cream from a truck parked in the parking lot.

Speaking of parking, on a really nice day like we had, it may be a bit of an issue. We parked in the Bruce Museum area in a lot that didn't have signs saying that it was only for museum parking. A short walk and we were there.

This playground really does having something for everyone. My kids LOVED it!

Bruce Park, Greenwich, CT - MAP