Sea Isle City, New Jersey

When Collinson Associates, BCI Burke’s representative in Brielle, NJ, worked with Sea Isle City Recreation Department on the details of the Play by the Bay project to maximize play value and make the playground dreams of area children come true, nothing was spared. The Sea Isle City project boasts New Jersey’s largest, state-of-the-art sprawling playground with a huge assortment of swings, climbers, decks and slides that provides endless opportunities for play that will last for generations.

The playground incorporates Burke’s whimsical “Nature Play” tree house theme that complements the experience of its park location adjoining the bay. A half dozen elevated, hexagonal shaped platforms resemble large hollow tree trunks and serve as the focal point of a maze of structures interconnected by thematic ramps, walkways, ladders, steps, chutes and climbers of various sizes, designs and configurations. The design enables children to adventurously scramble, vault, climb, crawl, wriggle, swing, slide, and glide to their hearts’ content.

Custom designed by Burke for the city, a few of the playground equipment’s recreational highlights include three triple-slides and two curved slides, a rock climbing wall and rock crawl incline, tall spring-like coil climbers, tree climbers resembling desert cacti, cargo net and board ramp climbers and an assortment of other climbers comprised of coils, rings and rungs of varied forms. Then there is today’s modern version of monkey bars, presenting the children with athletic challenges to move across the length of playground sections using diversely shaped overhead grips, along with educational panels prompting them to explore facets of the world around them.

While the emphasis of all the equipment is to stimulate creative thinking and to have fun, the construction of the playground is of equal importance. The playground is completely handicapped accessible, meeting or exceeding all American Disabilities Act and Consumer Product Safety Commission standards, as well as all International Play Equipment Manufacturers Association certification criteria.

It also is incredibly durable. Providing the best warranty in the industry, Sea Isle’s Burke manufactured playground equipment comes with a 100-year limited warranty against corrosion, deterioration or workmanship covering the aluminum and steel posts, and all clamps, hardware and bolt through fastening systems. All steel components of the equipment received an electronically applied powder coating with special salt resistant additives and were assembled with stainless steel hardware to withstand the corrosive sea shore environment for decades. Structural plastic components are made of ¼” thick double-wall high density plastics and the PVC coated steel decks comprising the playground platforms are designed to support as much as two tons. The equipment also comes with a maintenance kit providing Sea Isle with a customized maintenance manual and schedule, touch-up paint and graffiti remover.

As with every Burke playground, a complimentary Playground Supervision Safety Kit produced by the National Program for Playground Safety is provided, which includes an in-depth training manual outlining the ABC’s of safe playground supervision and a video and CD-Rom to help train supervisory employees.

The Play By The Bay project is the pinnacle of all playgrounds in New Jersey. It proves the Burke commitment to manufacturing a superior product, integrity, honesty, respect, child safety and exceptional responsiveness before, during and long after the sale makes for an amazing playground that provides immeasurable play options for children and families.