A new accessible playground is nearly ready to welcome visitors in Innisfil.
The town says the lengthy reconstruction of Alcona’s Huron Court Park is nearly complete.
So, what’s new? The old equipment has been replaced with a larger, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act-compliant playground area.
A shade structure with picnic tables, new painted lines on the basketball court, and another walkway connecting Benson Street and Alcona Glen Elementary School to the existing trail system are also part of the work.
“There’s a couple zip lines in that one,” capital project manager Meredith Goodwin said. “That playground is going to be probably opening in the next few weeks. They’re close to being done. It’s exciting.”
As well, there are new park fixtures and furniture pieces, including a bike rack, garbage cans and seating.
The playground area will have the accessible engineered wood fiber similar to what’s being used at new parks scheduled to open in Alcona and Cookstown this fall.
“The current playgrounds (at Huron Court) … had come to the end of their life cycle,” Goodwin said last year. “The new playground will have many pieces of equipment for different abilities from infants to school-age children. The play equipment meets (their) sensory, motor, cognitive and social skills and includes two zip lines, one includes a bucket seat.”
For more details on the project, visit innisfil.ca.
