Sacramento Adventure Playground
Maple Neighborhood Center, 3301 37th Ave, Sacramento, CA 95824
About
Sacramento Adventure Playground offers Spring Camp, Summer Camp programs, Holiday Play Camps, and Homeschool Programming that include activities such as fort building, art, group physical play, and free play. Camp themes include Adventure Spring Camp Bot’s of Fun, Play Camp, Fort Building I, Fort Building II, Fort Camp III, Critter Camp, Minecraft Camp, Minions: The Rise of Play, Build It Camp, Investigators Academy, and Wacky Science vs Art of Mess, along with enrichment activities, campfire and marshmallow roasts, and S’more’s with donated supplies. The program also offers Free Community Days, Pop-Up Adventure Play Days, non-adult directed play in its out-of-school program, and a free after-school youth development program that includes pizza on Fridays for kids present at 4 PM.
• Ages: 6–15 years old
• Schedule: Five-day Spring and Summer Camps with morning sessions, plus single- or two-day Holiday Play Camps 9:00 AM–2:15 PM, with options for early drop-off, after care, and free public play time on select afternoons and evenings
• Price: Five Day Camps $195, Five Day Fort Camps $200, Play Camp $105, Holiday Play Camps $10, with additional fees for early drop-off, bridge care, and Monday after care
Sacramento Adventure Playground is powered by Fairytale Town and is described as a junkyard atmosphere and European style adventure playground that functions as a makers’ laboratory or tinkerers’ workshop where youth use real tools to build and create things that reflect their own ideas and visions. The program includes a dedicated 5 & Under Area that is regularly open during public play hours, a Mud Play Area added in March, and six themed forts built by Summer Campers for the 5 & Under Area. Typical daily camp schedules include Enrichment I and II, Group Physical Play, Art, and Free Play, and each camp includes snow cones, with campers asked to bring a water bottle and encouraged to bring snacks or lunch for longer stays.
The program is a part of Fairytale Town, whose board of directors set a vision in 2011 to “Inspire, educate and strengthen communities through play,” and Fairytale Town states that it brings Sacramento Adventure Playground to promote imagination, creativity, and education of children. The program’s mission statement notes that it keeps youth learning simple and fun, with science, engineering, and art (STEAM) behind enrichment activities at a kid-understandable level. Sacramento Adventure Playground is neighborhood-oriented and operates as a program of Fairytale Town, with the Sacramento Play Coalition and Sacramento Play Summit partners supporting Pop-Up Adventure Play Days. La Familia Counseling Center, a separate agency on the same campus, may offer a free mid-day Monday–Thursday Summer Lunch Program/Camp and traditionally gives lunches to aftercare kids.
Site Supervisor Steve Caudle serves as Play Manager, and media contact is Lisa Keyson, Director of Advancement at Fairytale Town. The program openly promotes “risky play” and offers non-adult directed play in its out-of-school program, with participation in the free after-school youth development program requiring parent registration. The playground’s public play hours include weekday and Saturday times, with free care Tuesday–Friday from 2:15 PM–6:30 PM through the standard free public play program, campfire and marshmallow roasts at dusk on weekdays during Standard Time (November–March), and Pizza Fridays where kids present at 4 PM receive pizza around 5 PM.
Last updated March 10, 2026.
• Ages: 6–15 years old
• Schedule: Five-day Spring and Summer Camps with morning sessions, plus single- or two-day Holiday Play Camps 9:00 AM–2:15 PM, with options for early drop-off, after care, and free public play time on select afternoons and evenings
• Price: Five Day Camps $195, Five Day Fort Camps $200, Play Camp $105, Holiday Play Camps $10, with additional fees for early drop-off, bridge care, and Monday after care
Sacramento Adventure Playground is powered by Fairytale Town and is described as a junkyard atmosphere and European style adventure playground that functions as a makers’ laboratory or tinkerers’ workshop where youth use real tools to build and create things that reflect their own ideas and visions. The program includes a dedicated 5 & Under Area that is regularly open during public play hours, a Mud Play Area added in March, and six themed forts built by Summer Campers for the 5 & Under Area. Typical daily camp schedules include Enrichment I and II, Group Physical Play, Art, and Free Play, and each camp includes snow cones, with campers asked to bring a water bottle and encouraged to bring snacks or lunch for longer stays.
The program is a part of Fairytale Town, whose board of directors set a vision in 2011 to “Inspire, educate and strengthen communities through play,” and Fairytale Town states that it brings Sacramento Adventure Playground to promote imagination, creativity, and education of children. The program’s mission statement notes that it keeps youth learning simple and fun, with science, engineering, and art (STEAM) behind enrichment activities at a kid-understandable level. Sacramento Adventure Playground is neighborhood-oriented and operates as a program of Fairytale Town, with the Sacramento Play Coalition and Sacramento Play Summit partners supporting Pop-Up Adventure Play Days. La Familia Counseling Center, a separate agency on the same campus, may offer a free mid-day Monday–Thursday Summer Lunch Program/Camp and traditionally gives lunches to aftercare kids.
Site Supervisor Steve Caudle serves as Play Manager, and media contact is Lisa Keyson, Director of Advancement at Fairytale Town. The program openly promotes “risky play” and offers non-adult directed play in its out-of-school program, with participation in the free after-school youth development program requiring parent registration. The playground’s public play hours include weekday and Saturday times, with free care Tuesday–Friday from 2:15 PM–6:30 PM through the standard free public play program, campfire and marshmallow roasts at dusk on weekdays during Standard Time (November–March), and Pizza Fridays where kids present at 4 PM receive pizza around 5 PM.
Last updated March 10, 2026.
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