7% of the United States is a ‘play desert’

Hundreds of counties in the United States, about 7% of the country, are play deserts, research finds.

These play deserts are areas where parks and other spots to run around and play are nonexistent, hard to access, or in less safe locations that make parents second-guess taking their children to play there.

Many of the counties lacking access to play areas were clustered in the Southeast and Southwest. Additionally, pockets of play deserts were most common in rural and suburban areas throughout the country. But in the South, even urban areas lacked adequate play space.“Parents often consider a park the first […]

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