Roselyn Crescent Reserve Boronia – Possibly Melbourne’s Longest Slide

Not sure if this counts as Melbourne’s oldest or longest-running slide, can’t say for certain, but it’s definitely in the running. Not many people around, mostly just locals from the area. Roselyn Crescent Reserve, also known locally as the Big Slide, Boronia. There’s a mini playground right at the entrance, and that’s genuinely it, nothing […]

Found a good place to burn off the kids’ energy in Melbourne’s east: McAlpin Reserve in Ringwood North. The playground design is really cute. There are apple and pear sculptures scattered around it, and the kids love them. It’s just like a fruit park. Walking in feels like stepping into a red and green fruit […]

Wrinklewort Park in Truganina is the newest playground in Melbourne’s west, and it’s built around a theme I haven’t seen done quite like this before: giant sculptural flowers. The whole park reads like a garden, with the play equipment itself shaped like blossoms rather than just sitting next to some planting. It only opened recently, […]

I only went to Box Hill to run an errand, and when I finished I searched for the nearest playground and ended up completely hooked by South Surrey Park in Surrey Hills! It isn’t one of those new parks that makes you say wow the second you see it, but the location and the whole […]

I often wonder, years from now, will the parks and buildings we know today still be standing. The playground I’m writing about today gave me something of an answer, in its own way. Victoria Park sits in Kew, on what many people might not realise is actually elevated ground. That position is part of why […]

Marie Wallace Bayswater Park, better known locally as the Train Park, has a full-size red steam locomotive sitting in the middle of it. Not a plastic replica. Kids can climb up into the cab, touch the controls, and get as close to a real old-fashioned train as most of them ever will outside a museum. […]

A timber fort near the city, with a long slide hidden on the hillside. In Clifton Hill there’s a timber adventure playground tucked away where you can see the city skyline. In front of you are slides, a wooden fort and trees, and in the distance there are Melbourne’s tall buildings. It’s a pretty odd […]

We’ve just dug up another gem of a playground in the south-east. My son flatly refused to leave. It has everything a playground should have — stuff for the kids, fitness equipment for the adults, and enough space for a family BBQ gathering, all in one spot. Most important of all: there’s an indoor toilet. […]

Saw this one all over Facebook and figured we’d check it out on a Saturday afternoon. Aintree, out in Melbourne’s west, still a lot of construction going on around it. The pods The centrepiece is a row of huge woven steel and timber pods up on poles, meant to look like bird nests, with slides […]

Bored one afternoon, so figured I’d finally write this one up. My son does kinder three days a week, so we picked a weekday to go. Barely anyone there. The park’s huge and properly new, apparently built with a serious budget behind it. Not that we’d know the details or dare to ask. Kid was […]