In early 2024, our 20th year as a nonprofit serving families of children with disabilities, we began looking at our facilities and considering how we could best steward, maintain, and expand on what had already been so lovingly established on our property in order to provide many more years of impact to our community. This past spring 2025, we tackled critical maintainence projects to extend the lives of our facilities, and this fall, we decided to dial up the fun!
We are excited to introduce to our community our newly expanded and highly inclusive Retreat Center playground! Over two weeks in August 2025, our old swing set was removed in order to make way for a ton of new features for our guests and volunteers to enjoy. Those features include:
- Miracle Museum™ Grand Gallery: The Grand Gallery is social fun for everyone! With interactive features and room for individuals using a wheelchair or other mobility device, the angular design of Grand Gallery’s walls provides ground-level fun everyone can enjoy.
- Interaxion™ Alpha Climber: This climber features two types of foot and handholds for a variety of play opportunities. An arched center meets two swooping cargo nets for kids to explore, building confidence and character in addition to encouraging exercise.
- Inclusive Whirl: All members of our community can go for a spin with Inclusive Whirl! The decking is designed to be level with surrounding surfacing, so those in wheelchairs can easily roll on the equipment to the ADA-compliant parking space. Its spacious design also features a seat built into the arched handrail, so users of any ability level or age can enjoy the ride together.
- Miracle Museum™ Momentum Corridor: This unique rolling experience with overhead bars allows kids to pull themselves across the full length of this roller table, enjoying a tactile event with gentle bumps. Momentum Corridor is at transfer height, making this a fun, accessible event!
- Swing Set with Inclusive Swing Seat: This snug, supportive seat offers all children a high-flying ride while helping them coordinate head and eye movements, stay upright against gravity, develop balance equilibrium and coordinate actions on the right and left sides of the body. Swinging gives kids of all abilities the opportunity to engage in valuable sensory play.
Descriptions are pulled from miracle-recreation.com.
