FAIRMONT — After two years of planning and fundraising, the all-accessible Fairmont Adventure Playground is set to open Tuesday at Gomsrud Park.

A ribbon-cutting is set for 3:30 p.m. that day, after which the construction fences will be rolled back to allow access.

Crews from Landscape Structures of Delano, a 50-year-old playground design firm that developed the site’s pattern, have been installing the colorful one-piece rubber base this week, the final piece of the project.

Initial plans to open the playground this weekend were delayed due to humidity, which slowed the bases drying process.

After the base is installed, the site must be monitored continuously for 48 hours to prevent people and critters from walking on it before it is set and dry. The Adventure Playground task force is looking for volunteers for four-hour shifts from 8 a.m. Saturday through noon Sunday to watch the site. Anyone wanting to volunteer should use the Sign Up Genius link found on Fairmont Adventure Playground’s Facebook page.

The opening of the $500,000 playground will culminate many months work by a tireless task force comprised of parents, teachers and others, some with a family member with a disability, others just believing that it would be an asset for the community. They held fundraisers, wrote numerous grants and solicited funds from businesses, organizations and individuals.

The largest donor was the city of Fairmont, which contributed a total of $300,000, splitting the gift between two fiscal years. The funds came from liquor store profits and did not increase property taxes.

Adventure Playground is heralded as a place for all abilities, physical and cognitive. The surface is ramped and designed to handle multiple children and adults, with transfer points for people to get in and out of wheelchairs and onto the equipment.

The task force is confident of the positive significance the play area will have, not just for the community but for the entire region. Its research showed that 11 percent of children have some sort of disability, so factoring in friends and family members of these children will expand the impact to thousands.