Climbing over and through the structure offers a maze of possibilities. One of the hard ways up is a side wall pocked with stones molded with handholds and toeholds. They can be positioned with the indentations up for easy gripping or down to raise the difficulty. To get back to the ground, choose the blue tube slide or the stainless-steel fireman's pole. The belt swings are designed with heavy-duty chains and hardware rated for up to 300 pounds.
Swings are where conversations happen.
Butler says her designs draw on childhood memories of growing up in a big family in Upstate New York. We had a terrific rope swing in an old tree. And two metal bars at different heights, like chin-up bars. After an intermission in graduate school, she moved to San Francisco in 1983 and started a company called Outer Space Designs with a friend. We specialized in decks, hot tubs and fences but did not even think of play structures.