Playground for All Children (Flushing Meadows Corona Park)

✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season

Where: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Corona, Queens, New York

Hours: typically daylight hours

Cost: free

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Built in 1984 as one of the first playgrounds in the country designed for disabled and able-bodied children to play together, with a suspension bridge, wheelchair-accessible equipment, braille plaques and a water wheel. It remains the prototype for NYC's inclusive playgrounds.

Accessibility

Accessible. Recorded as wheelchair accessible — step-free routes to the equipment.

What's on site

Mapped here. OpenStreetMap records step-free access, toilets on site, drinking water, benches, parking at this playground.

When to go

Comfortable weather in Queens runs roughly April to November.

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Other playgrounds nearby

There are 3 other playgrounds within 5 miles and 31 within 15. These are ranked by accessibility and facilities first, then by distance:

Gantry Plaza State Park Playground — 5.8 mi · Queens · toddler, splash-pad-nearby
Adventure Playground (Central Park) — 7.3 mi · Manhattan · accessible, splash-pad-nearby
Ancient Playground (Central Park) — 7.3 mi · Manhattan · accessible, restrooms, splash-pad-nearby
Hunter's Point South Park Playground — 2.1 mi · Queens · accessible, splash-pad-nearby
Billy Johnson Playground (Central Park) — 7.3 mi · Manhattan · accessible, splash-pad-nearby

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