Nature Playground And Children’s Garden In Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park
Nature Playground in Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba is a unique and imaginative children’s play area amid pretty greenery
The Nature Playground at Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada encourages children to run, jump, climb, and explore. This unique, imaginative, and pretty place was improved and refreshed in spring of 2024. You’ll find a sand and water play area, slithering slides, willow tree tunnels, basket swings, colourful “mountains,” and net bridges.
Located at the eastern end of the Nature Playground, the whimsical Streuber Family Children’s Garden features a tree-lined path that leads visitors to a patchwork of raised flower beds.
The story of community across the country was the inspiration for DO RE ME FA SOL LA SI by artist Joe Fafard (1942-2019). Each piece is a combination of scenes, objects, and fragments that together form the shape of a horse. Fafard used laser-cut steel off-cuts from his previous works to create this herd. Larger sets of the same sculpture are located in Calgary and Quebec City.
A picnic shelter sits near the west entrance to Nature Playground. It offers space for a number of picnic groups. Note that it cannot be pre-booked.
Also near the west entrance, you’ll find a William Epp statue of Harry Colebourn and his bear Winnie, the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh. Read more about Winnipeg’s connection to Winnie-the-Pooh in my post Winnie-the-Pooh in Winnipeg.
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A really creative approach to building a playground. And it looks so spacious. Would have loved to have had a space like that for my kids.