{"id":372413,"date":"2026-08-15T17:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372413\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:48:23","slug":"kurt-donaldson-park-in-cape-to-close-for-playground-upgrades-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372413\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Donaldson Park in Cape to close for playground upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The playground at Kurt Donaldson Park, 180 Hunter Blvd., off Hancock Bridge Parkway, in Cape Coral, will close temporarily beginning Monday, Aug. 17, while the existing playground is replaced with a new playground.<\/p>\n<p>The playground is expected to remain closed through the end of September, weather and construction conditions permitting, but could reopen sooner if work is completed ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The new playground will feature shade, swings, slides, climbing components and other equipment designed to provide children with an enhanced place to play.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can use other nearby Lee County Parks &amp; Rec playgrounds while the Kurt Donaldson Park playground is temporarily closed.\u00a0Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeparks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">leeparks.org<\/a>, select \u201cPark Finder\u201d and search by the \u201cPlayground\u201d amenity.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Lee County Parks &amp; Recreation locations, amenities and special events, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeparks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">leeparks.org<\/a>, call (239) 533-7275, email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecoralbreeze.com\/lifestyles\/local-lifestyles\/2026\/08\/13\/kurt-donaldson-park-in-cape-to-close-for-playground-upgrades\/mailto:leeparks@leegov.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">leeparks@leegov.com<\/a> or visit leeparksandrecreation on Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The playground at Kurt Donaldson Park, 180 Hunter Blvd., off Hancock Bridge Parkway, in Cape Coral, will close&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-372413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}