The Best Swing Sets for Kids

Swing sets offer fun and excitement for the entire family.

Swing sets serve a significant function for kids beyond mere entertainment. Swing sets also increase their physical strength, enhance their imaginative abilities, improve their eye-hand coordination skills, and provide a medium for the kids to release energy and excitement. If your kids want to play in the backyard on a top-notch swing set, there are multiple options from which to choose.

Rainbow Castle Swing Set

Rainbow is a company that has been making swing sets for more than 25 years, as of 2011. The company is highly respected among consumers for using top-quality, U.S.-certified wood to manufacture its swing sets, and each set is accompanied with a lifetime warranty. Rainbow's Castle swing set consists of two extra-wide climbing ladders, a flared canopy adorned with flags, a rope ladder, a step-chain ladder, swings, a slide and a tire swing beneath the fort. Furthermore, customers can order the castle in numerous sizes, ranging from the fiesta size, which has a side length of 10 feet and a deck height of four feet 10 inches, to the King Kong size, which has a side length of 15 feet and a deck height of seven feet, two inches.

Gorrilla Blue Ridge Navigator Swing Set

Gorilla Playsets uses high-quality lumber that effectively maintains the condition of the swing sets, maximizes the safety of children and prevents rot, decay and insect damage. The Gorilla Blue Ridge Navigator Swing Set features a safe entry ladder, a rock wall with a climbing rope, a rope ladder, monkey bars, a built-in picnic table, sandbox, trapeze arm with a trapeze swing, an extreme wave slide, two swing belts, a telescope, steering wheel, tic-tac-toe panel, and a roof with a chimney. Additionally, Gorilla sets are constructed so that the customers can easily assemble the set and put the parts together with the tools and instructions included with the set.

Woodplay Caboose Play House

Woodplay was one of the first companies to manufacture swing sets with natural redwood lumber. The redwood material provides for sets with superior strength and greater sustainability. Furthermore, the designs of Woodplay's swing sets are intended to help develop the bodies and minds of kids. Woodplay's Caboose Play House consists of a rope rung ladder, 14-foot landslide, tire swing, 10-foot swing beam, two belt swings, trapeze, cargo chain ladder, climbing wall, knotted rope with a disk, a monkey climber, ship's wheel, binoculars and a spacious skybox covered with a wood roof and a bubble.

PlayNation Grand Summit I

PlayNation Play Systems, Inc. provides swing sets built with high-quality wood that provides sturdy equipment and protects against rot and decay, along with bolts and screws that are electro-galvanized to prevent corrosion. In addition, all swing components and accessories are equipped to help ensure safety for kids. PlayNation's Grand Summit I is a large swing set with a diverse range of activities and functions that can entertain kids for long periods of time. This swing set entails two separate deck platforms with the lower level being five feet in height and the higher platform being seven feet. The set also includes an extreme wave slide, a radical ride spiral tube slide, two belt swings, a trapeze swing, glider swing, deluxe rope ladder, rock wall with climbing rope, sandbox, large picnic table, steering wheel, tic-tac-toe panel, telescope and a sunburst wood roof with dormers and a chimney.

References

• Rainbow Play Systems, Inc.: Choose Your Style
• Gorilla Playsets: Blue Ridge Navigator
• Woodplay of Texas: Playsets
• PlayNation Play Systems, Inc.: Grand Summit I
• GALT: Play Structures, Swing Sets, Playsets

Resources

• Rainbow Play Systems, Inc.
• Gorilla Playsets
• Woodplay of Texas
• PlayNation Play Systems, Inc.