In the end, designing a park that can stay cool and allow kids to play even on the hottest days is a good long-term plan.

The council recently altered the location of a St Clair playground to ensure it had natural shade. “Each playground we now install or refurbish, such as at Denver Rd in St Clair, either has artificial ...

An artist-rendered composition of the Ryan Gray playground with the added shade structures. Right now, when the sun beats down on Hillcrest Elementary’s Ryan Gray Playground, there’s no shade where ...

Come this summer, parents and family members watching their children play at the Marshfield Kids at Play playground may be able to stay a little cooler doing so. Selectmen recently approved plans for ...

In a child’s imagination, a climbing frame can become a pirate ship or a princess’s castle. But during this summer’s heat waves, the Sahara desert and the surface of Venus might be the playground ...

Protecting children from overexposure to the sun while on playgrounds is indeed a laudable notion. But the erection of “shade structures” as detailed in [the Dec. 7 story] “Canopies coming to four ...