Aquatics
From swimming centers to fountains and splash parks, discover resources and aquatic-focused products to help families swim, make summer memories, and promote fitness, health, and movement through fun and competition. Learn more about how the pool offers a wealth of health advancements not found in other recreation environments.
Bicycling
Research supports bike-friendly communities as a healthy contributor to overall Community Vitality. Discover how communities build connected infrastructure to promote active transportation, healthy activity, and reduce carbon emissions.
Dog Parks
One of the fastest growing amenities in public spaces, learn how to advocate for and build dog parks that bring people together in a shared love of pets, providing intergenerational opportunities for interaction, friendship, and healthy movement.
Green Schoolyards
Since students spend most of their weekdays in school, greening schoolyards is a vital and logical step to support children' s overall health and well-being. Discover how to impact children’s academic, social, psychological, cognitive, and physical health through daily exposure to play and nature.
Inclusion
Inclusion embraces the mindfulness that other people may have a reality different from your own. Learn how to intentionally plan public spaces for the success of everyone to help ensure the physical and social inclusion of people of all ages and abilities.
Nature Play
Outdoor play in nature is a powerful preventive strategy for healthy childhood development. Learn ways to deliberately design nature into the lives of children and families to stimulate, motivate, and encourage children’s play, and provide the comfort and aesthetic enhancement that nature provides.
Outdoor Adult Fitness
Outdoor fitness hubs are a growing way to help get adults actively engaged in healthy activity. Creating an effective space can be a challenge without the right information to help guide your choices. Discover best-practice guidelines for aligning to health benefits and total body fitness when designing outdoor fitness spaces.
Playful Trails
Discover the many benefits of integrating play into walkable, bikeable, shared use community pathway networks by infusing "play pockets"along the way and intentionally designing opportunities for play, learning, and interaction.
Youth Physical Fitness
Learn how to maximize a playground investment, providing a setting and programming for physical education by implementing six essential elements of play. This research based design guidelines and curriculum programming gets kids actively moving to help combat childhood obesity and encourage healthy lifestyles.
Spectator Seating
Explore features and benefits of various types of seating and amenities for stadiums, grandstands, and bleachers. Discover current standards and criteria, purchasing, installation, and maintenance information, design considerations and applications, plus ways to engage the community in the project.
Surfacing
Choosing appropriate recreational surfacing is one of the most important factors in developing a safe and accessible outdoor environment. Discover considerations to make when planning, purchasing, and protecting your surfacing investment for any type of environment.
Intergenerational Play & Recreation
Learn the many ways that implementing well-planned outdoor environments can remove barriers to participation and consider the preferences, habits, and comfort of a broad collective across the age spectrum, setting the stage for meaningful interface between all people.
Outdoor Music
Playing and experiencing music in nature positively engages the brain, and builds social cohesion. Learn how to plan and create outdoor music spaces to engage people of all ages and abilities in a joint experience of creativity, cooperation, and happiness.