Maplewood Park

Video features the inclusive playground of Maplewood Park in West Fargo North Dakota.

[video: scene fades into a playground talk tube designed like a rainbow-colored pinwheel as ukulele music plays in the background. The camera focuses on the top of a play panel designed like a ticket booth. The top of the panel reads “Balloon Tickets”. The camera switches to a ground view up to a hot hair balloon shaped shade over a play structure. The camera switches again to a side view of a climbing bridge with white decretive panels on the sides shaped like fluffy clouds. Scene switches to a circular rainbow wheel spinning panel. The camera focuses on the light blue arched posts of the air and sky themed play structure. The camera focuses up to the play structures shade panel with perforated holes and the cutout shape of an airplane. Scene fades to black and back into a full elevated view of the parks play area and inclusive playground filled with playing families.]

[video: with a few across the park two children swing together in a two-person swing allowing for them to face each other as they play. Scene switches to a girl as she climbs up a golden dome climber with varying sized holes for climbing. Children shout and conversion all around the park. A woman stands behind an inclusive glider as a boy stands with his walker next to a friend as he jumps back and forth to move the playground activity. Scene switches to a full side view of children running to push and riding on a carousel like spinner. The camera focuses in closer as the children continue to play on the carousel spinner. The camera switches to a riders view from inside the carousel. A girl runs to push and spin the carousel, at the last moment she jumps onto the moving carousel for a ride. Scene switches to a full elevated view of the entire play area of the park. Children can be seen running and playing all around.]

[video: a boy kneels at the balloon ticket play panel as a girl sits opposite the other side. The boy points to a ticket on the panel.]

Boy: This one?

Girl: Ok.

[video: the girl pretends to hand the boy a ticket. Scene switches to a close-up of a play panel with blue dome shaped bells and swinging music notes. A boy’s hand comes into view as he lifts the music not letting it swing down to ring the dome bell of the panel.]

Boy off camera: Oh, I didn’t know that.

[video: the boy flicks the music note again to ding the bell. The camera glances back to the boy and girl at the balloon ticket booth panel. The girl rests her chin on her hands as the boy points to the tickets on the table of the panel.]

Boy: I want this box.

[video: with a full bird’s eye view of the playground families play on the many play structures and other playground activities below. Scene switches to a girl as she helps to push from behind on a young boy’s walker as they make their way up a playground ramp. The camera switches to a back view of the boy as takes his walker up to the first platform of the play structure. The camera leans over the top of the boy as him, a friend, and a woman play at an interactive bell panel. The woman pushes on a music note to ring one of the many dome shaped bells of the panel. Camera switches to an elevated overview of a hot air balloon designed play structure. A girl begins to climb up a belt climber with cloud shape foot and hand holds. The camera focuses in closer as they girl slowly places her feet and hand on the climbing foot holds of the belted climber. Scene switches to the girl as she rides down a small blue slide. The camera focuses on a boy as he holds on to the cloud hand hold of the belted climber. The camera pans down to the boys braced legs as he lifts and hooks his feet into the foot holds. A woman wearing mittens supports the boys bottom as he continues to climb.]

[video: children play in the foreground on a stand-up spinner with the air and sky themed play structure behind them. With a view across the playground children run and play on the play structure. A girl kneels by a circular play panel with cut outs of hot air balloon shapes. A child on the opposite side of the panel spins the rainbow color wheel changing the color of the hot air balloon cut outs. The girl points to the panel.]

Girl: Hot air balloons.

[video: a boy rides down a large blue slide with his hands raised above his head. Scene switches to a top-down view from the play structure of a rope climber. The camera pans upwards following a boy as he walks over to ropes with pod steppers on them. Scene switches to a full side view of an inclusive wheelchair accessible swing. Adults on either side of the large swing push it back and forth while two children ride. A boy sits in a chair spinner, he spines with his legs tucked closely to his chest. The camera leans in closer to the boy as he continues to spin in the chair spinner. Scene switches to a full elevated view of several children pushing and riding the carousel spinner. Scene switches again to a child as they lay across the seat of a playground spinner. They spin while looking up to the sky. A girl jumps from the landing platform of a zip line onto the disc seat. She glides down the track past the camera. A boy rides the disc swing of the zip line backwards towards the camera. He leans his head back as he smiles at the camera while riding past. A girl standing on a stand-up playground spinner looks at her feet as she spins round and round. Scene switches to the camera mounted to a seat spinner facing a young child as they smile and ride the spinner.]

[video: an older girl rides down past the camera on a slide made of rollers. The camera walks up to a boy as he grins while bouncing back and for on a spring rider. The camera switches to being mounted to the spring rider handle as the boy continues to bounce back and forth. He tries to smile at the camera, but the collar of his jacket blocks his face. The camera rushes towards a girl as she climbs a wave shaped rope climber on a play structure. Scene switches to a young boy as he gets on his hands and knees to crawl into a golden dome shaped climber. The camera pears through one of the holes on the side of the dome to the boy who just climbed inside. Scene fades in and out to a girl smiling and giggling as her hair blows in her face from the wind. Scene fades in and out to a young boy and his mother as they smile and wave to the camera.]

Woman: Hi.

[video: the boy begins to run towards the camera as the scene fades out to a full elevated view of the park playground. The screen fades to white as a black line appears on the left-hand side of the screen. The Dakota Playground logo slides out to the right of the black line. Then the Landscape Structures logo slides out from the left of the line. Text below both logos read “For a better tomorrow we play today”. Screen fades to white and video ends.]