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Can-Do Playground

Delaware State Parks · 1914 West Park Drive, Wilmington, DE 19803

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Photographs

A wide view of a large playground with brown ramps and railings up to elevated decks, a shade canopy over the center, wood-chip surfacing and concrete paths.Ramps rather than steps to most of the upper decks, which is the whole point of the place.2026-08-07
A green-roofed timber picnic pavilion with picnic tables under it, on grass beside a paved path, with the ninja course visible in the distance behind.The picnic pavilion between the Can-Do Playground and the Ninja Fit course. The dark line across the field behind it is the ninja run.2026-08-07
A sand play area with two large raised green sand tables on legs and a domed shelter behind them.The raised sand tables are high enough to pull a wheelchair under.2026-08-07
An open mown field with a paved path curving through it, picnic pavilions and a small building to the left, and play equipment in the distance.The field the whole thing sits in. Paved path, pavilions, and the athletic fields beyond.2026-08-07
Signs on a post reading No Pets Allowed In Playground Area with a crossed-out dog, a plaque reading Service Animals Welcome, and a brown sign listing what is prohibited in the park.The sign that decides whether the dog gets out of the car.2026-08-07
A sign reading NINJA FIT PLAY GROUND in white on black, with cartoon ninja characters, standing at the end of a curved black warped wall on mown grass.The sign at the end of the run. Built with Rotary and the Neighborhood Ninjas; the warped wall in front of it is the last obstacle.
A long outdoor ninja obstacle course on black rubber surfacing: balance beams, angled boards, hanging rings and climbing frames, with two children on it and open playing fields either side.The whole run, looking down it. Rubber underfoot the entire length, and benches along the edge for whoever isn't doing it.
Two tall angled climbing boards with green hand-holds in the foreground of a ninja obstacle course, with monkey bars and balance equipment behind and a child in the middle distance.The climbing boards, from inside the course. This end is the harder half — the balance and hanging obstacles are down the other.
A wide view across mown grass to a long ninja obstacle course silhouetted against a bright sky, with a small child walking towards it.How it sits in the field. It's a long walk across open grass from the parking, and there is no shade on the course itself.
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Restrooms

Yes — season not confirmed

Between the Can-Do Playground and the Ninja Fit course, and well kept. Confirmed in person.

Confirmed 8 Aug 2026 · Site maintainer, in person

The state's big accessible playground, inside Alapocas Run State Park. Ramps to the upper decks rather than steps, poured rubber under the swings, shade over the main structure, and sand tables raised high enough to pull a wheelchair under. A Ninja Fit obstacle course and a picnic pavilion sit in the same field.

What's there

Facilities

12/13 confirmed
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Shade
Yes
Pavilion
Yes
Grills
Not confirmed
Trails
Yes
Paved path
Yes
Courts / fields
Yes
Fishing
No
Disc golf
No
Skate park
No
Dog park
No

Getting around

Ramps to most of the upper decks rather than steps only, poured rubber under the swings, concrete paths right up to the equipment, and raised sand tables. Confirmed in person August 2026.

Hours and contact

Hours
8am – sunset, dailyFirst-hand, 8 August 2026. Covers the whole day-use area — the park, the Can-Do Playground and the Ninja Fit course all keep the same hours.
Phone
302-577-1164

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Where it is

Can-Do Playground, 1914 West Park Drive, Wilmington, DE 19803Directions →

Field notes

What I saw on the day. Not checked with anyone, and it can go out of date faster than the facts above.

  • Field note · 8 August 2026 · Site maintainer

    The Ninja Fit course has four photographs of its own now, including the sign. It had none — and worse, the file I had labeled `cando-ninja` and captioned as the course is a photograph of the picnic pavilion, with the course a thin dark line on the horizon behind it. I named it wrong and then wrote a caption that made the wrong name true. It's `cando-pavilion` now and says what it is.

  • Field note · 8 August 2026 · Site maintainer

    8am to sunset, daily — the same hours as Alapocas Run around it, and the Ninja Fit course keeps them too. New Castle County publishes nothing for this playground; the hours came from being there.

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