Agenda - Parks and Recreation Commission - 05/11/2023

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SECTION 11. PLAYGROUND DESCRIPTIONS Alpine Park Alpine is a larger community park located in central Ramsey along the south side of Alpine Drive, approximately 1 mile east of Ramsey Boulevard and 1/3 mile west of Sunfish Lake Boulevard. Park amenities include four baseball diamonds and batting cages, off -leash area, as well as a skate park. Its playground was completed in 2000. The playground uses engineered wood fiber for surfacing. The playground consists of two components, a wooden swing set and a wooden composite play structure. The swing set has two sections, one section with a single plastic chair swing and the other section with two normal belt swings. The playground structure consists of one plastic slide with parallel ramps. A metal, vertically curved set of six parallel monkey bars is connected to the rest of the set via a low transfer surface. Opposite the monkey bars is a wooden ladder with two steps that connect to the rest of the structure. There are five means of entry the aforementioned transfer surface and ladder, a wooden staircase, a chain link ladder (with four parallel chains) with metal footings, a chain link ladder on the interior of the structure which three rubber tires serving as steps, and a wooden climbing wall (sloped roughly 60 degrees with the ground) with six wooden steps and a rope for balance. The bottom of the climbing wall is worn, likely due to use as an additional step. The protective covering on the rope is worn and the metal inside of the rope is exposed in places. The rope has also been stretched considerably. The entire surface of the structure is wooden with the exception of a bridge, which has a rubber mat for a surface. The bridge is sloped slightly (less than 15 degrees) from one end to the other, however there are four peaks on the rubber surface with thin wooden planks on top. The rubber surface is somewhat worn and there are cross slopes in some places that are unrelated to the design. The chains for both ladders are in fairly good condition. The wood throughout the structure ranges from okay to poor condition visually. The wood on the supports for the tallest portion of the structure (i.e. the area withthe wooden climbing wall) is in the poorest condition with several of the planks making up horizontal and diagonal supports being splintered. The playground also has talk tubes (metal megaphone toys through which children may communicate with one another through opposite ends), which are both in good working condition. Figure 20: Alpine Park Playground 10