Camp Matecumbe Playground is an award-winning nature-focused play space located in historic Camp Matecumbe in Miami Dade County. The design features an innovative play space that brings children into closer contact with nature.  It incorporates a natively planted landscape into the play space and has a design that encourages free movement.  The play space creates opportunities for children to explore their environment and interact with natural elements. Landscape DE was landscape architect and prime consultant for the project. The design included new play equipment, generous pathways and open spaces, new walkways, earthworks, a new parking lot, large new trees, xeric native planting, wood benches, and trash cans. A significant feature of the new playspace is a new 120’ x 90’ x 10’ tall constructed earthwork hill covered with native pineland plantings including, slash pines, saw palmettos, fakahatchee grass, and cocoplum shrubs. Children can scale the hill via stepped native oolite blocks or by a gentler slope covered in mortared river rock. They can then slide down on a super-size 20’ long embankment slide. The playground also features a small obtacle course play element which utilizes recovered cypress river logs from Florida.