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Adventure Playground

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Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Adventure Playground
Phone:
+1 510-981-6720

Hours:
Sunday11am - 5pm
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
WednesdayClosed
ThursdayClosed
FridayClosed
Saturday11am - 5pm


Adventure Playground is an urban park and adventure playground in Berkeley, California, located at the Berkeley Marina. The park opened in 1979 based on the ideas of Danish architect Carl Theodor Sørensen, who had made use of scrap junkyards for playgrounds when Copenhagen was under occupation during World War II. The adventure playground model, sometimes referred to as a junk playground, is to provide children with the resources to build. The available tools include saws, hammers, workbenches, and nails. The legal liability raised by giving children relatively unrestricted access to these tools has made adventure playgrounds rare in the United States, with the Berkeley Adventure Playground being one of only three in the country.
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