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Good Things Come Too Late

A new mammoth playground makes me wish my kids were young again.

Robert Rackley
Robert Rackley
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Here in Raleigh, NC, we have a park that opened a few years ago on the site of a former mental hospital. Dix Park has been an impressive undertaking, though I'm sorry to say I've never been there. The latest edition to the park is the sure-to-be-popular Gipson Play Plaza, which opens this weekend.

This new ginormous playground looks like a kid's dream. Featuring several different sections such as Sensory Maze, Slide Valley and Watermill Mountain, the park spreads out over 18 acres (!!!). It makes me wish my sons were back to playground age and we were headed there today.

Robert Rackley

Robert Rackley

Mere Christian, aspiring minimalist, inveterate notetaker, budget audiophile and paper airplane mechanic. Self-publishing since 1994. Fan of the open web.

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