Alice Bitar guides her brother, Joaquin, on his first skating adventure at White Park in Concord on Monday, January 13, 2025. The family is visiting from Brazil where it is the middle of summer.

It's being replaced this summer. Thirty years ago, Concord school kids designed the city’s beloved Monkey-Around Playground, a maze of wooden walkways and slides at the center of White Park.

Children and their parents line up for ice cream outside the Monkey Around Playground at White Park on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Tuesday night, they said a final farewell to White Parkâ s oasis of ...

By Matt Ingersoll Special to the Union Leader Jan 29, 2025 Updated May 7, 2025 ...