Inspired by Appleton Water Tower, it delivers ‘the money shot’, the key feature of the new play area. Standing at around 8m tall the multilevel play tower sits proudly at the back of the play site, visible from outside the space, enticing visitors to explore!
The two connecting towers house a range of play elements, from a winding spiral staircase leading to the giant 14m tube slide that wraps around the building to deliver you from the very top, back down to earth. There’s also accessible water play tables at each level that allow users of almost any ability to control the flow of water between levels and access the talking tubes to communicate with friends on upper and lower floors. It has all been designed to encourage interactive, collaborative play.
The first link into the new expanded play area takes you across four linked treetop decks, taking visitors up high and over the fence into the adjoining copse.
Accessed from the new path, a spiral staircase winds up around the first deck. From here a bridge goes up and over the existing play trail before reaching another raised lookout deck. A wobbly rope bridge and further fixed walkway ends at the final deck where a slide then shoots you back down to the forest floor.
There’s also a ground play trail at this point, looping through the trees with a ladder up to the deck height to give access back into the main play area. you can see some of the details that we love here.
