Site Amenities & Shade

Ultra-Site

Benches, tables and receptacles that finish a park

Ultra-Site's thermoplastic-coated benches, picnic tables, grills and receptacles survive weather, salt and heavy public use.

Company profile

Who Ultra-Site is

Founded: 1986
Headquarters: Red Bud, Illinois
Parent company: PlayCore
Finish: UltraCoat thermoplastic coating

Product lines

Benches and picnic tables
Receptacles, grills and bollards
Bike racks and bleachers
Connections Series inclusive seating
Dog park and outdoor fitness

What that means for your project

UltraSite is a PlayCore brand building site furnishings in wood, aluminum and recycled plastic, finished in UltraCoat thermoplastic that resists rust, graffiti and the freeze-thaw cycle that destroys painted furniture.

The Connections Series focuses on inclusive and accessible seating with multiple seat heights — the detail that makes a park usable for grandparents and wheelchair users, not just kids.

A customization program lets colors and personalization be matched to the play structure so a phased park still reads as one project.

Manufacturer specs and catalog

In detail

What Ultra-Site builds

Recycled Plastic Benches

Ultra Site's park bench line, including models like the Phoenix Bench, is offered with a choice of steel or recycled-plastic slats in finish options such as cedar, gray, or green, mounted either surface-mount or in-ground depending on the site's foundation.

The company's published spec sheets for its recycled-plastic bench models document a 5-year limited warranty on thermoplastic-coated elements and a broader one-year workmanship guarantee, with installation guides detailing anchor bolt patterns and footing requirements for each mount type.

Recycled-plastic slats resist the cracking and splintering that wood slats develop under New England's freeze-thaw cycling and road-salt exposure near parking areas, which lowers the annual refinishing and replacement burden on a town parks department working with a small maintenance crew.

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Thermoplastic Coated Steel

Much of Ultra Site's site-furniture line, benches, picnic tables, and receptacles, uses a steel frame finished with a thermoplastic powder coating rather than paint, which is documented in the company's model-specific warranty sheets as carrying its own 5-year limited coverage.

Thermoplastic coating bonds to the steel substrate as a heat-fused layer rather than a sprayed film, giving it better resistance to chipping and scratch-through corrosion than standard enamel paint on outdoor furniture exposed to sun and moisture year-round.

That extra chip resistance matters in Maine and New Hampshire winters, where plows, shovels, and ice-melt salt around walkways and benches are exactly the conditions that chip standard paint down to bare steel and start rust; a fused thermoplastic finish holds up longer under that abuse.

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Inground and Surface Mount Options

Ultra Site publishes separate installation guides and model numbers for inground-mount and surface-mount versions of the same bench or table design, letting a buyer choose the anchoring method that fits their site's slab, pad, or open-ground condition.

Surface-mount hardware is specified for bolting to existing concrete pads, while inground models are set with embedded anchor legs poured into a new footing, and the manufacturer's guides call out footing depth and bolt-pattern details specific to each model number.

Choosing the right mount type is a bigger deal in New England than it looks on paper: frost heave can work a poorly set inground footing loose over a few winters, so specifying the mount type to match actual frost depth and existing pad conditions is worth getting right at purchase.

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Ultra-Site — Inground and Surface Mount Options

Site-Wide Product Line

Ultra Site's catalog covers the full range of outdoor site amenities beyond benches, picnic tables, trash and recycling receptacles, bike racks, and bollards, allowing a single manufacturer's finish and color palette to be matched across an entire park or school campus.

Each product ships with its own model-specific spec sheet covering dimensions, materials, and the standard 5-year thermoplastic and one-year workmanship warranty terms, which keeps procurement documentation consistent across a multi-item purchase order.

For a New England town replacing amenities across a park or a school district equipping several playgrounds at once, sourcing benches, tables, and receptacles from one line simplifies bid specification and gives facilities staff one warranty structure and one set of replacement parts to track instead of several.

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Warranty and Durability Terms

Ultra Site's standard published terms provide a 5-year limited warranty on thermoplastic-coated elements and a one-year guarantee against defects in workmanship and materials when a product is installed and maintained per the manufacturer's instructions.

The warranty documentation explicitly excludes vandalism and man-made or natural disaster damage, which is standard in the site-furniture industry but worth flagging to buyers writing insurance or replacement-reserve line items into a capital plan.

Public buyers in Maine and New Hampshire should read that exclusion carefully: routine winter damage from plowing or ice tools is a maintenance and installation issue, not a warranty claim, so proper mount selection and site protocols around snow removal matter as much as the product spec itself.

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Ultra-Site — Warranty and Durability Terms

Built to last

Premium materials

The specific alloys, coatings and components Ultra-Site uses — the details that decide how equipment holds up to New England winters.

Finish options include powder coat, thermoplastic coating, recycled plastic and heavy-duty structural plastic.
Benches such as the Phoenix ship with steel or recycled-plastic slats to match site conditions.
Thermoplastic-coated elements carry a 5-year limited warranty.
One-year warranty on workmanship and materials across the line.
Premium, Ultracoat and natural wood collections available for receptacles and benches.