Maple Leaf Playground opens next weekend!

It’s official – the grand opening of the new Maple Leaf Playground is next Saturday, May 18th.

Friends For a Greater Maple Leaf Park made the announcement on its Facebook page. (Mai Ling had mentioned it earlier, here.)

From the Friends invitation:

Swinging, zipping, sliding, spinning, climbing, hunting, or just sitting and enjoying our lovely new park. The play area features a zip line, climbing features, slides, swings, twirly things, a sand pit, and a children’s garden & butterfly hunt.

The celebration for the playground, which seems to be variously called the Maple Leaf Playground Area or the Maple Leaf Family Terrace, runs from 10 a.m. to noon, and is sponsored by Seattle Parks.

This is for the Playground area only and will not include the grass area (which is still in the newly planted stage and is too young and tender to be compacted down with happy feet or torn up with happy paws). The ballfields and the upper part of the park will be open in late summer/early fall.

We’ll check to see where and when the annual Maple Leaf Ice Cream Social will be held. It’s typically the last Wednesday evening in July, but when last heard from might be postponed until August depending on the state of the  new reservoir park.