Photos: Accessing new ways to play at Magical Bridge in Sunnyvale

SUNNYVALE – For lots of the guests, particularly the children, who stopped by the Magical Bridge Playground on its opening day at Honest Oaks Park this previous weekend – it was, certainly, a magical expertise.

They obtained to see first hand progressive and interactive artwork that goals to interrupt bodily and social boundaries.

For 11-year-old Victor Serna, it was a potent sensory expertise as he laid on his again, firmly gripping the rim of the spinning wheel because it whipped round – an exercise that stimulates the vestibular system that helps maintain stability, amongst different advantages.

The playground is just the third of its type within the Bay Space. Two others opened 2015 at Mitchell Park in Palo Alto and one other at Redwood Metropolis’s Crimson Morton Park in 2020.

In all six are deliberate throughout the South Bay, with another anticipated to open later this yr at Group Park in Morgan Hill and two others coming in 2023 to Rengstorff Park in Mountain View and Central Park in Santa Clara.

From two-story playhouses which can be fully wheelchair accessible to 24-string harps, these new areas champion common design and the creation of public locations which can be welcoming to all folks by assembly the wants of the younger or previous, the disabled and extra.

 

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 30: Elaine Captain, of Palo Alto, and her daughter Sofie Captain, 4, of Palo Alto, stroll to the Magical Bridge Playground at Honest Oaks Park in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Saturday, April 30, 2022. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

 

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 30: Marisa Juarez Burdick, of Sunnyvale, waits for her daughter Sof’a Burdick, 3, of Sunnyvale on the backside of the slide on the Magical Bridge Playground at Honest Oaks Park in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Saturday, April 30, 2022. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 30: Victor Serna, 11,  heart left, of Sunnyvale, lays on a spinning wheel on the Magical Bridge Playground at Honest Oaks Park in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Saturday, April 30, 2022. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 30: Aaron McCarthy, 2, of Mountain View, performs in water on the Magical Bridge Playground at Honest Oaks Park in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Saturday, April 30, 2022. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 30: Aaron McCarthy, 2, left, of Mountain View, and his brother Isaac McCarthy, 4, of Mountain View, play in water on the Magical Bridge Playground at Honest Oaks Park in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Saturday, April 30, 2022. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 30: Aaron McCarthy, 2, heart, of Mountain View, performs in water on the Magical Bridge Playground at Honest Oaks Park in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Saturday, April 30, 2022. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 30: Kids and households attend the opening of the Magical Bridge Playground at Honest Oaks Park in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Saturday, April 30, 2022. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 30: Kids run throughout a bridge on the opening of the Magical Bridge Playground at Honest Oaks Park in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Saturday, April 30, 2022. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 30: A baby jumps throughout the opening of the Magical Bridge Playground at Honest Oaks Park in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Saturday, April 30, 2022. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group)