Landscape Structures announces the launch of new nature-inspired play products including the Tree House and AdventureScapes®, Sensory Play products to create an inclusive playground where all kids can play together freely, and the PlayOdyssey® Tower providing kids an adventurous voyage of new proportions.

We expanded the color options available on all 25 of our preconfigured PlaySense® designs. Now choose from any of our 18 colors offered in ProShield™ Finish, our Super-Durable TGIC polyester powdercoat, and from our standard Polyethyene and Permalene® Color Panels.

2010 Catalog

The 2010 Landscape Structures Park & Playground Equipment catalog is now available! Our catalog is full of new and innovative nature-inspired products and sensory play products for your playground. And with our smaller compact catalog size —7" x 10" compared to 9” x 11”—we were once again able to reduce paper consumption by 30,900 pounds, save approximately 232 trees and reduce ink usage by 1,450 pounds.

View our virtual catalog online or request your catalog now.

Get Going…Green!

The King Pavilion addition to the ISU College of Design has been awarded LEED® Platinum certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). It is the first higher-education building in Iowa to achieve LEED Platinum status. Learn more.

We are also taking another big step toward sustainability with the launch of our new recycled Permalene® panels created from recycled, colored plastic household containers - waste materials that would otherwise end up in landfills - and offer a post-consumer recycled content of 73%.  Learn how you can select  the new recycled color choices on any Permalene panel.

Landscape Structures has a decades-long history of environmental awareness. For nearly 40 years, we’ve helped create healthier kids, families and sustainable communities, and have worked hard to create a healthier future for all of us. Long before it was fashionable, Landscape Structures built a culture of sustainability, designing products that keep kids active, while going far beyond what was required to protect the environment during manufacturing processes. We’ve created a great video that tells our green story. Take a minute, take a look, and then go green!

Landscape Structures and NRPA completed the first-ever study on environmental stewardship attitudes of parks and recreation agencies in the U.S. See highlights here, or download the full presentation.

Special Events

Landscape Structures was selected to participate in playground builds in conjunction with the NBA All-Star Weekend. LeBron James and State Farm participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Oak Cliff Boys and Girls Club of Greater Dallas, which officially opened one set of basketball-theme Evos™ and Weevos™ playsystems. Our affiliate KaBOOM! and NBA Cares hosted nearly 100 volunteers for the community-build installation of the second set of playsystems. Despite six inches of snow, volunteers came together to construct the playground at Summit International Preparatory in the community of Arlington, Texas.

The first annual Barb King Environmental Stewardship awards were presented on Oct. 13 in Salt Lake City at the 2009 National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) Congress & Exposition. These awards honor Landscape Structures co-founder Barb King's lifelong commitment to sustainability.  Evelyn Kirkwood of South Bend, Ind., received the Barb King Award for Environmental Leadership, and Mecklenburg County in Charlotte, N.C., was the winner of the Barb King Award for Environmental Stewardship. 

The Landscape Structures State Scholarships were awarded to Florida, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Washington at the 2009 NRPA Congress & Expo. These scholarships will cover the cost of environmentally-focused speakers at their state conferences.

Iowa State University's College of Design dedicate the King Pavilion, the campus' first "green" structure, on Monday, Aug. 24. Barb and Steve King, co-founders of Landscape Structures, were the lead donors to this facility, which was designed under LEED guidelines.