St. David’s Center for Child and Family Development on their Minnetonka campus features an inclusive playground with equipment designed for ages 3 to 10 and all stages of motor, cognitive, and social development.

The fenced play area includes equipment that encourages collaborative play (side-by-side slides and extra-large musical instruments), plus features that provide multisensory experiences (such as a rumble- roller slide).

Open to the public from 6–9 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m.–9 p.m. on weekends, the playground also offers kids ample opportunities to frolic in nature, including a dry creek bed, a mud kitchen and an adjacent DNR- certified forest.

St. David’s Pediatric Therapy Clinic also  includes five therapy gyms, including a 1,500-square-foot Super Gym with 19-foot ceilings with suspended equipment for specialized therapy. Learn more about the grand opening at stdavidscenter.org.

Across town, Madison’s Place in Woodbury was designed so that no disability could prevent a child from playing within its many features.

The 16,000-square-foot play space — south of the Bielenberg Sports Center field house near Radio Drive and Hargis Parkway — includes sensory-friendly and adaptive play equipment, ramps for wheelchair access, rubberized surfaces and accessible restrooms.

Named in honor of the founding local family’s late daughter, who died of spinal muscular atrophy at age 2, the playground cost more than $800,000 to build. It sits next to the city’s accessible Bielenberg Splash Pad.

Read about the Madison’s Place — and the family that made it happen over the course of six years — at twincities.com or see madisonclairefoundation.org.

Check out a list of inclusive Twin Cities playgrounds (and a local mom’s review of the Wabun inclusive play area) at Mpls-St. Paul magazine.