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Pearson Park <br />Pearson Park is the city's smallest neighborhood park in southwestern Ramsey at less than an acre, <br />located along Rabbit Street, north of U.S. 10 and Bunker Lake Boulevard, and south of Alpine Drive. <br />Its playground was built in 2018. <br />The Pearson Park playground is a nature -based play area. Most of its components are made from <br />minimally -processed naturally occurring materials. The structural supports holding up the main play <br />area are made from Tamarack logs, and the guardrails are logs cut into thin sheets. Another play feature, <br />locatedon a hill to the north of the main playground structure, consists of short `stepper' logs <br />arranged in a figure -eight shape. Adjacent to the figure -eight feature is a ring of seven rocks with <br />flat surfaces known as the Story -circle. Being Ramsey's first nature -based playground, it is unique <br />within the city in a numberof ways. It utilizes both sand and artificial turf for surfacing, and also has <br />three maple trees planted within the sand the play area for shade. Moreover, it has cut pieces of logs <br />scattered throughout the play surface. All of the logs are from tamarack trees sourced from northwest <br />of Duluth, Minnesota. <br />The playground includes a $35,000 long stainless steel slide (enclosed near the top, but open near <br />the bottom) that bends slightly near the middle. The main point of entry is a wooden bridge accessible <br />via a concrete sidewalk. The other three means of entry are a thin wooden climbing wall (background <br />of Figure 15) and two rope climbing structures. The larger one lines the southeast corner of the <br />playground structure, while the smaller rope structure is located in the center. An octagonal opening <br />in the wooden deck of the playground structure allows one to enter via the smaller rope structure. <br />The smaller rope structure is enclosed and also has large curved footholds for ease of use. All <br />playgroundcomponents are in near -new condition. <br />Figures 45-46: (left) Pearson Park Playground (not pictured: bridge); (right) Bridge <br />21 <br />