10301 Hungary Spring Road
Ground Cover: Mulch
Play Structure Count: 3
Safety: Low
Trash: Moderately Gross
Fun: I'd rather go to the dentist
I knew going in that I shouldn't expect much. The county does bill this place as a skate park. But I figured there'd be a playground. There are playgrounds everywhere! But I didn't expect the epic suck that I experienced. The grounds include a soccer field, baseball field, skatepark, and the playground.
Tiny. Teeny tiny. You can't see the road, as there's a bit of hill in the way, but Hungary Spring is literally twenty feet away from the playground. Look closely - do you see the fence? No? That's because there isn't one.
This teeny little slide thing is all this playground has going for it. And it's completely open on the back. So Skylark could not, I repeat could not, play on it. Sure, it's not thirty feet up in the air, so I can't damn it completely. But common. Common.
So this whole playground is nothing more than that slide, a teeter totter, and four swings (two baby, two adult). That's. It. Oh, and the road hazzard. Which is awesome for people like me with two kids who have free will and minds of their own, but haven't learned the basics of self preservation.
The trash was moderate. Lots of lollipop sticks, napkins, I found a kid hairband (the type with those two giant balls on the ends). The highlight was a bottle cap for a Corona.
But! If you're a skateboarder, this place is heaven.
Well, I guess it would be heaven if there wasn't a giant freaking lock on all the awesome skateboarding thingies. There's that giant ramp, and a whole field of cool doo-ma-hickies that I understand skateboarders do tricks on. But again, it was locked. So what's the point!?
We stayed for all of twenty minutes. Robin and Wren met us there and were smart enough to suggest we relocate. We went to the library on Staples Mill, which was a fabulous idea.
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