
National Playground Safety Week: How to Build Safer, Smarter Play Spaces
A practical guide to surfacing, maintenance, and safety standards for every community

A practical guide to surfacing, maintenance, and safety standards for every community
We help communities across Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Florida Panhandle design and build effective playground spaces.

Whether you’re designing a new playground or refreshing an existing space, this year’s catalog is a great place to start. Let us know if you want help choosing products or planning your next project!

At Struthers Recreation, we partner with GameTime to help cities, schools, and neighborhoods design spaces that support physical, social, and emotional wellbeing for every generation. Here’s why multigenerational play matters—and how you can bring it to your next project.

These elements don’t just build muscles; they build confidence, coordination, and lifelong habits for movement.

Here are the top playground trends we’re seeing take shape in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida Panhandle, Louisiana, and beyond.

As children swing, they learn the importance of timely energy transfer during movement, and they develop upper body and fine motor skills. Swings support cooperative play between users, as well as encourage dramatic and imaginative play.

For many years most preschool playground equipment came in only pre-determined color palettes. Now, GameTime has given control to you the customer to choose the color options that best suit your unique play area!

Brachiating, also known as overhead climbing, is a favorite activity on playgrounds. This experience is one of the very few activities that is first introduced to children in a playground environment.

In this week's Playground Design Elements spotlight we look at designing with slides! Sliding enhances core stability, dynamic balance, and leg and hip flexibility as well as provides body & spatial awareness. Sliding is also lots of fun!