Adding a playground to your campground enhances its amenities, helping attract campers to your site. A playground keeps children entertained as the parents recover between jaunts about the lake, hikes, or any other fun experience your campground offers.

A campground plagyround has unique challenges when it comes to safe play. Below are three tips to help keep your campers safe while using your equipment.

Water, Wandering, and Placement

Playground placement is an essential component of overall playground safety. Thinking through where your plagyround is located can help avoid safety issues.

For example, do children have to run across a busy road in your campground to access the playground? If that location is your only option, consider using the proper signage to help slow or stop traffic next to the playground.

If your campground has a lake, stream, or other body of water, we strongly recommend keeping the playground site far away. Kids can wander off in the blink of an eye. If a child goes missing near water, the urgency and danger of the situation skyrocket. If you must install near water, ensure you install proper fencing, signage, and other safety measures.

The same goes for placing your playground too close to the edges of your campground. This can help prevent a child from wandering off the playground and into the forest or onto a main road. Proper fencing and playground placement can help avoid this issue.

Fencing and Trash

As noted earlier, fencing can help keep children in the playground and away from hazards. That is not the only benefit; it can also be a barrier to passing animals or people. A fence is a good idea when you are concerned about the area’s safety in general. However, it should be a fence that you can easily see through so parents and monitors can always have lines of sight on the play.

Trash attracts animals. Your campground playground should have plenty of sturdy trash receptacles or proper signage instructing parents and children to cart off their trash. As much fun as watching a video on YouTube of a bear swinging on a swing set, it is less fun when it is your playground wild animals are enjoying.

Playground Maintenance

Your playground will have many children using it at once, and let’s be honest: Children who have possibly been sitting for a while during a long drive up to the campsite need to release some big-time energy! That means they may be rougher than normal on the playground.

Performing inspections regularly and documenting your inspections is an important step to protecting the playground users and yourself. Inspect the hardware, test the slides, and ensure everything is in order.

If you have a mulch bed, ensure someone is assigned to routinely measure and replenish the mulch to provide proper fall protection. This can easily be monitored by marking the correct height at numerous locations on the border of the playground. When the mulch falls below these marks, it is time for more!

Conclusion

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list but a list to get you started. Work with your camp staff to ensure the playground is safe and secure for the children to play on. If you have any questions, please reach out to our sales team. We can help guide you through the process and create a perfect playground for your children.

King Swings offers an affordable, durable, and beautiful public playground. Each customizable design allows you to customize your playground to fit your unique needs, space, and budget.

We offer different options for playground surfacing, from wood mulch to turf. We are a one-stop shop for your public playground needs; there is no need to deal with middlemen and outside crews.

If you have any questions, please contact our sales team. We can help guide you through the process and create a perfect playground for your children.