Equipment currently being installed in a park on D Street is less jungle gym — and more real gym. 

The city council approved its installation back in October, but it’s just now being installed, a little up the block from Arcata’s D Street Neighborhood Center. Currently, the D Street Linear Park is pretty much just a narrow strip of grass with some trees up the hill from Highway 101; the only unique feature was a three-tiered set of pullup bars a few feet from the sidewalk, but that disappeared during the past couple weeks. The exercise equipment it’s being replaced with is a tad more sophisticated. 

The Combi 2 Robinia is a “compact street workout station” manufactured by Danish playground equipment company Kompan. It almost looks like a normal playset that someone forgot to add the slides to, a bunch of wooden posts sticking out of the ground with metal bars linking them and a bench sticking out on one end. That, plus a weatherproof power tower, will flesh out a 20 by 30 foot rectangle paved with decomposed granite next to D Street. 

The city is also adding a little concrete square with a picnic table at the site. 

“Enhancing this linear park will help to provide expanded recreational opportunities for a variety of age ranges,” reads the staff report. “Furthermore, given the proximity of the D Street Linear Park to Cal Poly Humboldt, staff saw this as an opportunity to enhance a recreational amenity that frequently serves college-aged students near campus.”