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Why Rubber is the Best Playground Mulch

Not only do you want your kids to have the best playset, but you want them to have the best playground mulch to keep them safe! From the standpoints of safety, longevity, and look, homeowners everywhere agree that Adventure World Play Set’s specialty line is the best mulch for home playgrounds. Uncover what sets our mulch apart – and check out the different color options!

At Adventure World Play Sets, we build a line of Amish-made playsets that children all over the country love. For maximum safety, we often recommend that parents accompany their new sets with our mulch. See more about what makes for the best playground mulch – and discover your color options right here.

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What Makes for the Best Playground Ground Cover

The most important thing that mulch does is to protect your children in the event of a fall during play. The best playground ground cover, of course, keeps them safe, but it also provides a handful of other advantages that put it far above generic wooden mulch. Here’s what to love about our rubber mulch:

 

  1. Best Fall Protection – Should your kids ever fall during rambunctious outdoor play, the mulch will cushion their fall. When compared to standard wood mulch, rubber mulch offers far better protection. Based on independent tests, rubber mulch is between two and three times more effective at providing protection from a fall. This is the number one factor that makes rubber the very best mulch for home playgrounds!
  2. No Splinters – One of the other factors that makes our mulch a serious contender for the best playground ground cover is that it never causes splinters. Since ordinary mulch is simply composed of loose wood pieces, the chances to get a splinter are very real. Just like how our vinyl playsets never cause splinters in hands, our rubber mulch offers the same guarantee.
  3. Immune to Rot and Mold – As a fully natural product, wood comes with a few downsides. Most notably, wood is very susceptible to rot and mold. Almost the first time it rains on your mulch, the mold starts growing. Knowing that your kids are playing on a huge mound of organic growth is definitely unpleasant. Eventually that will cause you to need to replace the first load of mulch with an additional one. This is just like how you have to mulch your flowerbed every year – and it’s an added chore you didn’t ask for.  As is the case with all of our mold-impervious swing sets, all of our rubber mulch is 100% immune to rot, mold, or other growth.
  4. Never Needs to Be Replaced – Since our playground ground cover is immune to everything we listed above, you can count on it to last forever! That means you’ll never need to worry about it wearing out, become unhealthy, or looking downright unpleasant. Over years of having the set, you’ll spend more money replacing the wooden mulch than you would just buying the elite mulch upfront. Just like a premium playset is an investment, the premium mulch that goes with it is part of that investment as well.
  5. Great Look – While it’s not as important as keeping your children safe and secure, the look of your mulch matters too. While new wooden mulch doesn’t look bad per se, those lumber shavings can’t match the style of the best rubber playground mulch. The pieces of rubber mulch look nice up close and the bright colors make for a very polished and professional looking backyard playground. Plus, the five distinct colors are perfect for matching the colors of your set!

    See all five of our rubber mulch colors right here!

Shop the Best Mulch for Home Playgrounds

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Whether you’re looking to just shop the best mulch for home playgrounds on its own – or you’re also hunting for a playset – our team can help you! At Adventure World Play Sets, we make all of our sets and products available throughout the country thanks to our dedicated dealer network. Your local Adventure World expert will be able to show you all of the options and get you a price to take care of everything.

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Our Google Reviews

The best swingset company, in my opinion! We are an independent contractor that works for a lot of companies. Adventure world swingsets are built very well. They will last more than one generation.
Jay Flaud
Jay Flaud
2023-01-14
Reasonable price, great warranty, well installed. Kids will love it1
John Lippert
John Lippert
2022-12-29
Amazing quality! Definitely worth the purchase since kids play all day on it!
Isabella Laris Logan
Isabella Laris Logan
2022-11-07
Just got a wonderful playset for our preschool. It is fantastic!! It has been an easy experience.
Bethany Brown
Bethany Brown
2022-07-28
Great quality playset. Arrived quickly. Installation and communication through J&R Mulch Waynesboro PA was excellent
Allison Hickman
Allison Hickman
2022-06-23
If you ever need a swingset installed in your backyard or anywhere, you MUST get it from here.
Steven Rice
Steven Rice
2022-01-25
We have been trying to purchase one of these play sets for months and none of the dealers in our area will call us back about purchasing one. I wish the purchasing process was easier than "find a vendor in your local area". No one here wants to build them! The Happy Hideout looks like an amazing product for my toddler to grow into. I'm sad no one will build them or call us back. Edit: The company contacted me personally and found a vendor in my area!
Charlotte Doty
Charlotte Doty
2022-01-19
Great people to work with and high quality! Highly recommend, my kids love their new play house!
Ashley McGinnis
Ashley McGinnis
2021-12-24