A park built to be used by everyone, furnished the same way

When the Township of Langley opened Yorkson Community Park in May 2026, it opened the largest accessible playground in the municipality. Alongside it sit an accessible spray park, a turf field for lacrosse, soccer and rugby, an extension of the Yorkson Creek Trail, a gathering plaza built to host tournaments, and a new washroom building.

A park that goes to that length on accessibility creates an obvious problem for whoever furnishes it. If the playground is open to everyone but the seating around it isn't, you haven't built an accessible park. You've built an accessible playground with a barrier around it.

Ten Wishbone product lines went into Yorkson. The most telling one is a picnic table. The park took the standard Bayview hexagonal and the wheelchair-accessible version of it. Both, not one or the other. A family arriving together can sit together instead of being split up by which table they fit at.

The rest of the package reads more like an outdoor room than a park, which is unusual for municipal work. Rocking chairs. Chaise loungers, single and double. Side tables. A two-seat games table with a double-sided board for chess or checkers. This is furniture for staying a while, and it tells you how the Township expected the park to be used.

What went in

• Bayview Hexagonal Wheelchair Accessible Picnic Table: Specified alongside the standard, not instead of it
• Bayview Hexagonal Picnic Table: Six seats around one centre, so people face each other
• JEM Chaise Lounger and Double Chaise: Seating that invites a long stay
• JEM Rocking Chair and Side Table: A view of the playground from a seat you would choose
• Bayview 2 Seat Games Table Set: Double-sided board, chess one way and checkers the other
• Bayview Bench 6ft, Vincent Backless Bench 6ft: Backed seating to rest in, backless where people move through
• Urban Space Bike Rack, Beselt Self-Watering Planter: Arrival and planting at the plaza edge