Rotary Playgarden

The Rotary Childrens PlayGarden will be San Jose’s only all-access play garden for all children to be able to play side by side together, regardless of their abilities. With over 50% of the $6.5 million in funds needed to build the project, we're now turning to our friends, families and partners in the community to help us build this PlayGarden.

The 1½ acre Playgarden is a project celebrating 100th anniversary of The Rotary Club of San Jose by providing equal play for children with special needs, as well as children with parents who have special needs.

Conceptual features:

Play environments - slides and ramps, swings, a sand play area, climbing opportunities, spinning and/or bouncing items, towers and tunnels
Safety features – seating and benching for children and parents, visual sight line for parents, access for disabled adults, parents, seniors and children
Accessibility features – walkways, paths and ramps, double wide wheelchair widths for walkways and ramps, interesting textures and surfaces
Educational opportunities – an amphitheater for shows and storytelling, exposure to plant varieties, cones, pods and seeds, headphones to listen to pilots and air traffic controllers from nearby airport, nature education programs for school children and special programming for children with disabilities from the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy

Where

Adjacent to the Guadalupe River Park and Gardens Visitor Center at Coleman Avenue and Autumn Street.

large open area with free parking
across the street from a popular shopping center
highly visible from Coleman Avenue which will be widened to become a new entry to downtown from the Airport and Autumn Street will be extended from Coleman to HP Pavilion
linked by trails to the rest of the river park, downtown attractions, and opportunities to incorporate free play in nature