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The Westminster Legacy Foundation has partnered with the City of Westminster to create an innovative new playground for children in Westminster. Located at Westminster Station Park, which connects Westminster to Union Station in Denver, the nature playground will help our community’s children develop essential skills for a successful life.
What is a Nature Playground?
A nature playground is an innovative idea the Westminster Legacy Foundation is bringing to our community. The playground will be made of natural elements including trees, boulders, water, sand, chirping birds, blue sky, and – most importantly – plenty of imagination. The nature playground at Westminster Station Park will include a “mountain” with boulders, ropes, and timbers for children to climb. There will also be a series of treehouses connected by bridges (all accessible).
Why a Nature Playground?
The average American child spends more than seven hours in front of a screen every day, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. A number of troubling studies connect delayed cognitive development in kids with extended exposure to electronic media.
Nature playgrounds help connect kids with nature, and develop gross motor function, fine motor skills, imagination, and social skills, all at the same time.
Additional research indicates that, when children go to traditional playgrounds, they can get bored quickly: you climb the stairs, you use the monkey bars – it’s fairly prescriptive. A nature playground has boulders that can be traversed in a variety of ways, timbers that inspire a different game with every visit, and kids come back to these playgrounds more often and stay longer during visits. Nature playgrounds have also been proven to encourage children to consider their safety; in traditional playgrounds, most risks of injuries have been removed.
The Nature Playground is slated to open in the fall of 2021.
