This huge playground is a beautiful part of the neighborhood, and entrance to Fort Tryon Park. 

Located across the street from the Dyckman Street (A) station, the playground doubles as an entrance to the larger park. The big, leafy trees shade the main piece of climbing equipment. 

There are benches and plenty of space for sitting, all over overlooking the main splash pad area. On the far side, swings for older children and rope climbing structures, with the bathroom block house dead center. There was also a small collection of imagination structures that were thematic like a renfaire, with jesters and castle-like features. 

I thought the main playing structure was great, very linear. Adults will find it difficult to get up onto it except for the one entrance that has ramps, but otherwise there are a nice arrangement of different platform levels, ladders, and slides. 

The park was popular when we visited this past June with birthday parties and many kids playing in the water. Overall we could see why this was such a popular destination. 

The bathrooms in the park are below a small platformed area overlooking the splash pad, and you can climb up on top from stairs on either side. From here, you can begin climbing stairs that take you straight to the Cloisters. As an alternative, the paved pathways that wend upward are not quite as steep, and stroller friendly, but are a much longer milage than climbing. 

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The original playground was installed in the 1930s by Olmstead Jr., who followed in his father's landscape design footsteps. The main playground was renovated in 1997, and a 2021 renovation added the rope climbing sphere.