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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 /> OPINIONOre <br /> jJ I f <br /> P <br /> R Y <br /> aap'Npib� i <br /> f <br /> N <br /> y <br /> d <br /> i <br /> r <br /> r <br /> V <br /> r. l <br /> i <br /> /�l (%/, f i I, � 4 '� � I�� ( ���f' 'i' ' y,r;rJ1�/�� ;�j✓yi��lli/Uk <br /> r <br /> i <br /> r <br /> I i <br /> l i <br /> y <br /> Figures 45-46: (left) Pearson Park Playground (notpictured:bridge); (right) Bridge <br /> 21 <br />