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.

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 ...

A string of city parks will have new equipment for kids to play on, with two major parks also receiving shade structures so visitors can escape the hot summer sun. A $912,000 package of improvements ...

On the hottest days this year, students at Fairway Elementary School in Wildwood will be keeping cool outside. On May 18, during Outdoor Movie Night, Fairway students and families will attend a ...

The Pier 42 playground for younger children at noon is completely exposed to the sun. Photo: Sukjong Hong The Pier 42 playground for younger children at noon is completely exposed to the sun. Photo: ...

As record heat continues to scorch the midsection of the country and the South, FOX Weather hit the playground to find out exactly how hot the swings, slides and benches actually get. Even our expert ...

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 ...

SPRINGDALE -- Enthusiastic students took turns using small shovels to drop dirt into holes dug for planting trees at Knapp Elementary School on Monday. They participated in a program that could take ...

Families at the Wildcat Inn in midtown are celebrating the opening of a brand-new playground. It's the latest improvement in a years-long project to create safe housing for the community ...

WEBVTT IDS COOL IN THEHEAT CAN BE A DIFFICULT TASK.A REPORTER SHOWS US MORE.REPORTER KIDS CAN WORK UP ASWEAT ON SWING SETS.JUST LAST YEAR, THE CITY OFSANTA FE INSTALLED SHADES INPARKS ACROSS THE ...

At 95 degrees, it was too hot for children to go outside to play at Lorena Street Elementary School in Boyle Heights on Wednesday morning. So frustrated parents took their place instead, standing ...