Smale Riverfront Park

Richter Spielgeräte integrates the city's heraldic animal into an extensive playground along the Ohio River.

When the city of Cincinnati in Ohio/USA awarded the contract for the planning and implementation of the "Smale Riverfront Park" playground on the Ohio River to Richter Spielgeräte, one of the requests was to incorporate Cincinnati's heraldic animal as a theme. The fact that it is a flying pig, of all things, has a long tradition: in the decades after the city was founded in 1814, Cincinnati made a name for itself primarily with the production of cured pork.
With the "Oinkithopter" play structure, Richter created a winged pig that can be climbed using a climbing net and whose belly is just as suitable as a place to relax and retreat as it is as a space for children's role-playing games.
Around this attractive attraction and in front of the city skyline, a world of play has been created on a spacious green area on the riverbank that will captivate children of all ages.
In addition to a wide variety of water play equipment such as Archimedean screws, numerous channels, weirs and pumps, where children can have fun pumping and guiding the wet element, especially in summer, wide, undulating slope slides invite them to have special fun and older children and teenagers in particular can test their sense of balance and dexterity on the rope structures that connect various play modules at lofty heights.
Several children can sit on the large turntable at the same time and either experience gentle movements or give themselves over completely to the centrifugal force. Of course, good balance is required for everything.