Our short stop at Parc Kennith Loyd saw us heading just across Vaneir about two blocks east to find Parc Medaire, on a street by the same name, hidden behind a community centre and in an older condo community where you can still see some last vestiges that Aylmer used to be its own city, in the form of a number of “Private Neighborhood” Please be quiet signs emblazoned with the old City of Aylmer symbol.
This park houses a wooden structure which is simple but very fun for toddlers to early school aged kids. It has two raised play houses which are connected by a wood foot bridge then a rope bridge. The rope bridge was excellent for smaller kids and toddlers. It resembled a large rope bridge you'd see spanning a ravine and had its knots close together to allow easy navigation for little feet and strides. Even our 21 month old could do it and due to the way the bridge is made there was no worry he would fall off or through the rope netting. While simple in construction lots of fun was had traversing from one house to the next and then down again. A nice break from the steel and plastic structures and I think this one encourages more creative play than simply climbing, scaling, jumping and sliding that the newer structures do. We have a raised house wooden structure near us and I've observed my oldest will more often meet and play with other kids in this one than the 50 activity structures that don't have a play house.
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