Major Spray 'n' Play Addition opens at Davis' Farmland
On July 24, 2002, Davis' Farmland opened its new Adventure Play & Spray addition that includes North America's largest non-waterpark, children's sprayground as part of a major $2.0 million expansion. The expansion was designed by White Hutchinson based upon market and economic feasibility studies conducted in early 2001.
Adventure Play & Spray features two spray areas, one for toddlers and one for children 3-8 years old. The spray areas cover approximately 8,000 square feet and feature every kind of water spray and play imaginable, from ground bubblers and misters to a pretend car wash, to water trays and even a water tower geyser. Other areas of the Adventure Play & Spray addition have children's dry play including:
- boulder and log climbing,
- a prehistoric dinosaur dig with immersion bamboo landscaping,
- woven huts in grasslands,
- 'Moo Works'--a sand play piece of equipment themed to look like a Guernsey cow,
- a 2-D maze,
- climbing equipment for toddlers, 2-5's and 5-8's and
- a pedal go-kart track through a pine forest.
The Adventure Play & Spray area also includes a new 3,500 square foot guest service building with the Udder Herd Rock Calfé, restrooms, family restrooms and family changing/shower rooms.
Other parts of the renovation and expansion to Farmland included a new enclosed admissions area, a new management office and a new state-of-the art admissions, inventory, financial and management information system. WHLLG designed all the improvements and assisted Farmland with setting up a new management structure, management systems, policies and procedures and pricing.
WHLLG has been working for Davis' Farmland since 1994 when we conducted the initial feasibility study for its development and prepared the master plan.
