Closed for the season

Thank you to all of our wonderful visitors. We look forward to you joining us again for the 2024 season! Open May through October.

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We are so excited to be open! Did you know that Amazeing Acres is located right next to the Finger Lakes National Forest in Lodi, NY? Escape the indoors with a visit today!

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Looking for a dynamic outdoor educator to join our co-op!

OT/PT/Speech Therapists interested in treating "outside the box" in a unique setting. Amazeing Acres Adventure Playland is the perfect place for small group treatment. Please contact us today if you would like to learn more about our cooperative.

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Why children need outdoor play. Eleanor explains...

Outdoor play excites the senses! Not only our traditional senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste but also proprioception, think of body awareness, the sensations we receive from our muscles and joints, and the vestibular sense that includes balance and spatial orientation. Play that involves ‘just right’ challenges including running, jumping, climbing, making forts, tinkering, designing obstacle courses to name a few activities is essential for children’s development of strength, coordination, gross/fine motor skills, cognition and self-regulation. Active play fosters creativity, imagination, problem solving and enhances confidence and social connections as well as life long friendships.

In Occupational therapy we speak of the kinesthetic sense or the ability to know accurately the positions and movements of one’s skeletal joints. Kinesthesis refers to sensory input that occurs within the body. Postural and movement information are communicated via sensory systems by tension and compression of muscles in the body. The kinesthetic sense is processed by the entire nervous system. Signals from our brain and spinal cord are transmitted to the rest of our body. Play is a child’s occupation and is essential for physical growth, socialization, cognition and emotional intelligence.

Amazeing Acres Adventure Playland offers limitless outdoor play so come explore with us today!


Learn more about the creator of Amazeing Acres, Eleanor.

Eleanor has been an eclectic occupational therapist for over 30 years thinking OUTSIDE the box by creating an absolutely unique children's destination that offers just the right play opportunities for developing confidence, strength, coordination, social emotional regulation and friendships. Learn more!