Roby Park is home to the Jeff Morin Playground. The playground is very popular and nearly impossible to find deserted. Often the first that fellow parents recommend when someone is looking for a toddler friendly playground because of it’s accessible features, fence, and convenient location.
Roby Park: Toddler-sized play structure
When you first enter the playground, you will encounter a stand with two bucket swings and the toddler-sized play structure. The bridge over to the slide is a different kind of wobble bridge, just new enough to give many a cautious toddler some pause to figure it out. It is a simple design that allows for them to go up the stairs, over the bridge and down the slide, up the stairs, over the bridge and down the slide, up the stairs over the bridge and down the slide. There are picnic tables right across from here, so you can sit down and watch it happen.
Roby Park: Main play structure
Built to be an inclusive playground, many can benefit from the features that make this structure accessible. First, the giant ramp makes it much easier for toddlers to wander over and go big! Is there anything more fun than running up and down a ramp when you are two years old? I’m not sure, its pretty exhilarating. At the top of the ramp, they have a few options for directions to take and a fun bridge to climb.
There are multiple slides, including a roller slide, a wobbly bridge, zip-line and cool spinning wheel monkey bars. The zipline was too high for the tall 6 yr old I was with to reach on their own but I think it is one of the lowest we have come across yet, making helping the child out a little easier on this short mom.
Lunch Date Park
There are two covered picnic tables and plenty of other seating around the park. In the summer, sail-style sun shades are installed over the play equipment, providing a little relief from the sun and (hopefully/usually) keeping slides a usable temperature.
Quick Facts: Roby Park in Nashua
- Fenced
- Parking Lot
- Porta potty
- Paved loop around the perimeter but inside the fence
- Groundcover: Artificial turf
- Features:
- Accessible swing
- Bucket swings
- Roller slide
- Ramp entrance to main play structure
- Toddler structure
- Fun stuff: Zipline, slides, wobble bridge, spinning wheels monkey bars, climbing wall
- Address: 126 Spit Brook Rd, Nashua, NH
My Pressed Cafe Cautionary Tale
Pressed Cafe is right down the street. I used to be an enthusiastic regular and then one day the other Nashua location whipped a piece of the smoothie blender into my smoothie. I drank a bit, thinking the shards I felt in my mouth were ice until I tried to bite one and realized with horror that there were all different sized chunks of black plastic in my drink.
On that day I had stopped by for a pick-me-up on my way back from the doctor’s office because my cat had just died and I was in the delicate time between 8-12 weeks pregnant. It was pretty frightening to drink a microplastics smoothie only weeks pregnant. Maybe it wouldn’t have stuck with me the way it has if I hadn’t been pregnant but here we are and I will never be back. If you decide to go there, double check your food and your kiddo’s food.
