Playscapes

Step into a world of wonder! Six DCL locations feature one-of-a-kind children's play areas where imaginations soar. Explore one at a location near you, or visit all our locations.

Castle Pines

Little Letters Post Office

The library’s interactive play space features fun aspects of a real-life post office, including a standalone mail delivery truck. Kids can process and deliver mail using their imaginations and provided play materials, equipment, and devices. They can also dress up in various postal employee uniforms to accept packages and mail, weigh the items, ring them up on the cash register, place them on the conveyor belt, and sort them into mail slots.

Castle Rock

The Ranch

Rustle up some fun at The Ranch, where young cowpokes can put their imagination to work tending horses and animals, baling hay, gardening, and more, using play materials and equipment. With a standalone stable, tractor, and mini grain silo, the spirit of the West comes to life in this interactive play space.

Highlands Ranch

Healthy Critters Vet Clinic

Explore the fascinating world of veterinary care for animals in this hands-on pet clinic and spa! Kids can don pint-size lab coats and stethoscopes to check in pet patients, complete examinations using play instruments, diagnose patients at the X-ray station and light box, and give pets a bath. They can use their artistic flair to repair the tortoise's shell using magnetic tiles, check in adorable stuffies at the kennel, interact with reptile and bird plushies, practice horse hair grooming, and more!

Lone Tree

Little Savers Bank & Market

Kids can bank on having fun in this immersive environment, complete with an interactive safe, safety deposit boxes housing hidden treasures, and a teller window for receiving deposits. Roaming piggy banks add a touch of whimsy! They can also arrange "stained glass" tiles on the bank façade, exchange play money at the cash drawer, play vault Plinko, and learn about balancing using tabletop scales. At the market, kids can shop from produce bins, play cashier, barter, and practice budgeting, blending fun with practical financial skills.

Parker

Plants & Pollinators

Watch imaginations soar as children learn about the plant-pollinator system through hands-on playtime in the apple play house, featuring a specimen table for insect observation. Busy little ones will have fun exploring the world of bees and playing beekeeper in our realistic beekeeping station, complete with materials for role play and dress up. Crawl through the caterpillar, spin the blossoms, and much more while learning about this fascinating ecosystem.

Roxborough

Mission Control

3-2-1…Blast off to an out-of-this-world play experience here! Our interactive space-themed play space features a standalone rocket and other playful facets of a mission control room where imaginations can soar. Kids can dress up in spacesuits, climb aboard the rocket, run a "systems check," and prepare for blast-off using their imaginations and the provided play materials, equipment, and devices. The sky's the limit!