Old Alvarado Park

Union City, CA USA

CA - Old Alvarado Park

Video features a Landscape Structures playground at Old Alvarado Park in Union City California.

[video: scene fades into a full elevated view of with a rotating panning view down to a park below with two separate play areas. Scene switches to a ground view of one of the play areas. White text appears in the center of the screen reading “2-5 Play Area”. A young girl walks toward the play structure. The girl crawls up the stairs to the top of a green slide. Camera switches angles as the girl continues to climb up the stairs to the top of the slide. The girl sits at the top of the slide and rides down. Camera focuses on a crawl tunnel. The girl stands on a triangular shaped foot base while holding onto vertical ropes connected to the structure posts and foot base. As she moves and shifts the foot base wiggles. Camera switches to a full elevated view of the two to five play area, a large white tree with no leaves stands tall in the background. Camera switches back to ground view as two girls walk up the steps to the top of the slide. The girls sit together at the top of the slide. One girl begins to count.]

Girl: 1, 2, 3!

[video: camera switches to a side view as they ride down the slide. Camera switches back to the top of the slide as the second girl counts before riding down.]

Girl 2: 1, 2, 3!

[video: camera switches to side view of the girl riding down the slide with her hands raised in the air. Camera switches to a full bird’s eye view of the two to five play area. Camera switches back to a front view of the slide as one of the girl giggles and says “Go!” while riding down. The second girl throughs her hands in the air as she says, “Ready set go!”. The girls climb together across vertical ropes with foot discs. They balance as the ropes and foot discs wobble around.]

[video: scene fades out and back into a full elevated view of the larger play area. White text in the center of the screen reads “5-12 Play Area”. A boy climbs up the rungs of a ladder to the top of a slide.]

Woman off camera: Yeah, he needs to be using those muscles.

[video: camera pulls to a full ground view as children play on the larger play area. A boy rides down a ribbony slide. A girl rides down a humped slide saying “wee” as she rides down. Camera switches to a full bird’s eye view of the five to twelve play area. Camera focuses on a girl as she climbs the rung of a ladder to the top of a slide. A girl sits at the top of a slide. As she rides down the camera pulls back for a full view as she slides with her arms raised in the air yelling “wee”. Screen jumps to white. A black vertical line appears in the center of the screen. Ross Recreation Equipment logo slides out to the right of the line. Then the Landscape Structures logo slides out to the left of the line. Text fades in below both logos reading: For a better tomorrow we play today. Screen fades to black and video ends.]

Playground Details

Age Ranges

  • 2 to 5 years
  • 5 to 12 years

Play Styles

Min Area Required

  • 153' x 93' (46,63 m x 28,35 m)
    • 5-12 Area: 93' x 38' (28,35 m x 11,58 m)
    • 2-5 Area: 74' x 50' (22,56 m x 15,24 m)

Max Fall Height

  • 88" (2,24 m)

Design Standards

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Old Alvarado Park is a historic gathering place, noted in the National Register of Historic Places, dating back 200 years when Native Americans lived there and ground acorns in its beautiful natural surroundings. It has gone through many transitions, serving as a speakeasy in the 1920s, and a dance pavilion and skating rink in the 1950s. Today it is known as an ideal picnic spot within Union City with a year-round beloved farmer’s market.


The playground at Old Alvarado Park features modern, arched Evos® and Weevos® play structures, which are attractive to kids due to their multiple entry points and unique look. Kids ages 5 to 12 will love the novel options available to them, like the LolliLadder™ – a fresh take on monkey bars that builds upper-body strength, and a Swiggle Stix Bridge®, which emphasizes balance and coordination. Netplay options abound, like the Hemisphere Climber®, which can be traversed up, down, across and sideways, for endless climbing options. A Cozy Coaster® Slide and a Wee Crawl® Tunnel give fun play options for visitors aged 2 to 5, and a Weevos Boppity Bridge® invites little ones to walk or crawl on a wobbly platform. Also for the preschoolers is the Giggle Jiggler® Climber – a unique playground feature that adds extra challenge for youngsters by promoting vestibular and proprioceptive stimulation.

Installed: December 2022

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Playground consultant for this project

Ross Recreation Equipment Co
100 Brush Creek Rd Ste 206
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
Toll Free 855-892-3240
Phone 707-538-3800
info@rossrec.com
www.rossrec.com

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