Adventure Playground

Adventure Playground is a 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 resources to build using various raw materials. Children are provided with tools, like saws, hammers, workbenches, and nails. The legal liability raised by giving children relatively unrestricted access to such tools has made Adventure playgrounds rare in the United States, with the Berkeley Adventure Playground being one of only three in the country.