Agenda - Parks and Recreation Commission - 08/12/2021

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Rivers' Bend Park Rivers' Bend Park is a 60-acre community park along the Rum River located in southeastern Ramsey, east of MN 47 / Saint FrancisBoulevard and straddling CSAH 116 / Bunker Lake Boulevard, though the playground is to the north. Park amenities include four tennis courts, one softball diamond, one soccer field, and a basketball hoop in the parking lot. Its playground was last replaced in 2001. The playground uses engineered wood fiber for surfacing, which occurred recently in 2020. The playground has seven components the main play structure, a swingset, a set of four stepping pods (one in the middle and three surrounding the middle 180 degrees from one another), a dolphin - shaped spring rider, two "houses," and a tic-tac-toe board. The two play houses are mirror -images of one another, each consisting of two plastic walls held togetherby three wooden posts. The walls facing each other both have a small window with a 3 x 3 pattern as well as a bench below the window. The other two corners of each of the houses are open. The houses are both in good condition. The swing set has two bays, one with two bucket swings and onewith two belt swings. The entire structure is in good condition. The paint on the dolphin spring- rideris chipped and the concrete base is worn, but it is otherwise in good condition. The main play structure is a mix of plastic (slides, tunnels, roofs, and sensory components), metal (transfer platforms, some guardrails and supports), and wood (most platforms and supports).Visually the playground is in great condition, besides some faded paint and mud on the side of someof the plastic components. The main play structure has six entrances two transfer surfaces, one chain - link ladder, one metal ladder with four alternating semicircular rings forming eight footholds,one metal ladder with four flat rungs, and one corkscrew climber. The main play structure also consists of five slides one straight enclosed slide, one curved enclosed slide rotating 360-degrees, one straight slide with two parallel tracks, one straight slide with a hump, and another curved slide rotating 360-degrees. Additionally, there is a set of monkey bars with seven round rings. Tying the structure together are a clatter bridge, a belt bridge, and two tunnels each with two 90-degree turns. The play structure also has four interactive sensory components —a board with letters on it, an abacus, a tic-tac-toe board (similar to the one outside of the main play structure), and a toy similar to the tic-tac-toe boards but with numbers painted on them. Figure 53: Rivers Bend Park Playground 25