Picnic tables with game tops can quickly become a popular place at your location for people to meet and socialize

Picnic tables can offer another benefit to the public besides a place to dine outdoors when you add this item - a game top.

When ordering a metal or concrete picnic table, consider including the game top option.

With that option, a common checkerboard (also used for chess and other games) is embedded into the steel or concrete surface.

This adds a whole new dimension to your picnic table.

For one, the game top checkerboard can be used for both chess and checkers.

In fact, there are also several other games that can be

Quick ship concrete picnic tables that can leave the warehouse on the way to your location in just a few days

Quick ship concrete picnic tables in a few select styles can be transported from our warehouse to your location when you need a reliable table in a hurry.

And while these tables can be shipped in just a few days, with the durability characteristics of concrete, they last a very, very long time.

The quick ship concrete picnic tables from The Park and Facilities Catalog are manufactured with a blend of granite and concrete.

The parts are reinforced with 3/8-inch diameter steel rebar that makes them sturdy and keeps them upright.

Now while some people might think concrete products are plain and ugly, our tables are not.

Our tabletops are polished

Concrete picnic tables offer welcome seating at the new Lafitte Drive-In Park in Abbeville, LA

The City of Abbeville in Louisiana just spruced up their newly opened Lafitte Drive-In Park with five brand-new Concrete Picnic Tables.

The project is reportedly under the direction of Councilman at Large Francis Plaisance and creates an appealing new attraction for picnic-goers.

The rectangular tables are located in an open grassy area, placed nicely under some sizable shade trees next to a large pond.

They call it the "drive-in" park. That's certainly, an interesting name.

The real story behind the unique name is because the park is located on the site of a bit of Americana that has virtually disappeared from the landscape - a drive-in movie theater.

The tie-in between the opening of

The patent drawing for the first known picnic table submitted by Charles H. Nielsen

Back in 1903, a man named Charles H. Nielsen of Kreischerville, NY filed a patent for the design and production of simple picnic tables.

Little did he know that more than 100 years later, his simple yet brilliant invention would still be used today in thousands of locations around the world.

Ironically, back in those days, picnics were kind of random. People just drove up to a field or a park and parked wherever they wanted. At some locations, a roughly carved wooden plank would be placed on tree stumps dug into the ground.

Although according to Victorian-era standards, to experience the true feel of nature, a picnic was meant to be enjoyed sitting on a blanket on a field of grass. Tell that to the ants. Or the people

Picnic tables today are made with different materials that can be effective in reducing vandalism

Picnic tables are a popular destination for family gatherings, children's parties and sometimes bored delinquents who have nothing better to do but to tear them apart and wreck the experience for everybody.

Warm weather is now here, and people are heading outdoors, including these hooligans.

Scan the national headlines, and you will see incidents here and there where a bunch of misguided miscreants met at a park and then at some point in the evening, thought it was a good idea to destroy the picnic tables on the premises. By the way, probably the same picnic tables their families or friends use during daylight hours.

These scoundrels either bust the tables up. Carve their names into the wood or even worse,