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Playground of the Week – Fuller Park

For this week’s Playground of the Week, we traveled to Saint Petersburg to its Walter Fuller Recreation Complex located at 7891 26th Ave N, 33710. Its playground is fully fenced in, with two separate areas. It looks like one of the playground areas was built first (faded plastic, no shade) and then they added a second area later to expand the playground. The newer section has some shaded umbrella areas, but not enough to fully cover the equipment. So it made for a hot day at the park! The equipment was challenging, yet fun, for Henry with plenty of things to climb and slide. Henry especially loved the bouncing digger and ATV. He also loved the swings, located outside the fence, partially under giant shade trees. We couldn’t stay as long as we wanted because it simply got too hot and it felt like our faces were melting off Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark-style.

   
     
Since it is part of a larger rec center, ball fields, and pool, there was a pretty large summer camp program operating out of the center while we were playing. The kids were older elementary ages and were definitely excited to be outside. This made the park less fun for the Hen because he loves playing with other kids, and they just wanted to hang out together (totally understandable; two year olds are demanding). Overall thoughts: not too far from home; liked the containment; did not like the lack of shade; good variety of equipment; will return in winter when the weather is cooler.