Check out the plans for our up and coming Natural Playground! 

This is anything but a traditional playground.  There’s a sand play area with a hand pump for water complete with a sluice and water wheel, a 10 foot hill with a slide, climbing wall, boulders and caves, a sledding hill, a sundial where your shadow tells the time, and hay bales for building forts.  The playground is spread out over an entire acre and encourages kids to interact with nature.  As a bonus, everything is built so ADULTS can play with their kids too!

Planning and fundraising will take place the fall/winter of 2011-2012 and if all goes well, construction could start in 2012.

Let us know if you’re interested in being on any of the planning committees (in-kind building materials, plan details, identifying prospective donors, etc.) or if you’d like to make a donation.  Tax deductible donations can be made payable and mailed to:

Friends of the Houston Nature Center

PO Box 731

Houston, MN 55943

Click on the photo below to download a detailed photo of the design. Note: This is a 5.4 meg file.