Summer fun on the way: new indoor playground coming to Downtown Yuma
Danyelle Burke North
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – Summer is getting better for kids in Yuma! A new play space is coming to downtown Yuma this summer.
With the hot summer heat on the way, the Fort Yuma Rotary Club partnered with the Yuma Children’s Museum to build an indoor AC play space.
“It gets really hot in here during the summers, and we have some beautiful parks and some brand-new infrastructure that the city has put in place in those parks. But when it’s over 100 degrees, you know the kids are not using those spaces,” said Juan Guzman, President of the Fort Yuma Rotary Club.
That’s when they brought the idea to the Children’s Museum. Thanks to community support, the Fort Yuma Rotary Club raised nearly $100,000 for the playground.
“There will be slides that represent water and the frame represents green and grass,” said Yuma Children’s Museum Executive Director Sabra Lemmon. “The floor will look like grass and some soil, and we have some things for our sensory sensitive kids that will be included.”
The playground is expected to be ready this summer.