Concord, MA – A new nature-based park and playground for multi-generational users of all abilities, The Playscape at Ripley, is being planned in Concord. The project, designed by the Boston-based, landscape architecture and planning office, AGER Group, responds to the community’s growing concern that children are increasingly missing out on the numerous benefits from outdoor play, which include experiences that help heighten awareness, exercise observational and reasoning abilities, and can ultimately improve academic skills and cognitive development.
The proposed playscape site is next to conservation land jointly owned and managed by the Sudbury Valley Trustees, the Meriam Close PRD Trust and the Concord Land Conservation Trust.
A few of the key features of the new park and playscape include hands-on gardens, a babbling brook and sandy beach, bird blinds and a woodland walk. The goal of the project is to be universally accessible and to provide a unique resource where visitors from across the region can gather outdoors, socialize, learn, and be eager to return.
AGER Designs Playscape
Concord, MA – A new nature-based park and playground for multi-generational users of all abilities, The Playscape at Ripley, is being planned in Concord. The project, designed by the Boston-based, landscape architecture and planning office, AGER Group, responds to the community’s growing concern that children are increasingly missing out on the numerous benefits from outdoor play, which include experiences that help heighten awareness, exercise observational and reasoning abilities, and can ultimately improve academic skills and cognitive development.