Alexander W. Kemp Playground — Attraction in Cambridge

A lot of money clearly went into this park and it’s got great ideas, but poor consideration around how the different areas interact with one another makes this place a dirty, chaotic mess. The spongy hardtop material forms a nice hill, but the sand next to it makes the sides extremely slippery. It’s very easy for someone to slip and hit their head on any one of the hard elements. It was clumsy enough with the mulch, sand, and spongy hardtop material, but check my picture of when water is added to the mix. Yuck! It seems no thought was given to how the water would be drained, leading to a mulch pond, which is unintentionally appropriate because it is next to a boat-themed climbing area. This park is what you get when you’ve got lots of interesting ideas but don’t spend the time to test how different elements interact with one another. Maintenance of the park is also quite poor, as the spinning wheel is misaligned...

Nice playground! Very different. Interactive toys basic pullies and inclined sand moving belt that can be hand cranked. Great way to develop arm machanics and strangth in a fun way the little guy had a blast with both. A trough stream, build a sand Dame with a whirl pool at the bottom! Cool stuff to climb on with a sand base...

Amazing playground to take your kids too while visiting Harvard. Good from ages 2 and up with baby swings, regular swings and a bigass tire swing to chill on as well as mutiple slides, enormous sandpit, climbing facilities and a dragonboat for anyone who’s into that. A big hit and probably one of the best...