Hinterland Adventure Playground Mill Place Reviews

We visited Hinterland Adventure Playground in Cooroy, in the Noosa hinterland. The whole park has a raw forest feel. It also looks very industrial, almost cyber, because so much of it is silver metal set against bare logs and big trees. The Tower and the Long Silver Slide The tall tower is the first thing […]

I keep wondering why the genuinely good centres and playgrounds always end up so far from home, and the Caboolture Region Environmental Education Centre, known as CREEC, is one of them. It’s in Burpengary on Brisbane’s north side, and between the nature playground, the indoor exhibits and the bush walk, we spent a whole afternoon […]

Took the kids to Billubera Park in Yarrabilba today. It’s south of Brisbane, about half an hour’s drive from the south side. The name comes from the Yugambeh language and means a clear sky or fine day. It was a clear day, so that worked out. It feels like walking into a forest. Big trees […]

We were heading to Sea World that day, and just before we got there a stretch of impossibly blue sea stopped us in our tracks. We turned off on a whim and walked into a little world called Peninsula Playground, as if we’d stumbled onto a hidden Easter egg. It’s less a playground and more […]

Lorikeet Park in Worongary is a super cool parrot playground on top of the Skyridge hill. The Park is at Skyridge Boulevard, Worongary QLD 4213. The big lorikeet is built from timber, with a blue head, a red beak and stripes of green, yellow, orange and red running down its body. A green slide runs […]

Found somewhere new to add to the Gold Coast rotation! Just reopened after an upgrade, so we went to check it out. Slides, climbing, water play… kids played till they didn’t want to go home, parents finally got to breathe. The Big Blue Dome — Hard to Miss First thing you see walking in. Tall, […]

Four and a half years old, played from the moment we arrived until it was properly dark out. Three or four hours, easily. Had to drag him to the car. Wasn’t planning on staying that long. Won Queensland’s Best Park and Playground Design award back in 2020, and you can see why walking around it. […]

We finally took the little one to Calamvale District Park and stayed for hours! It’s a proper big park, so there was always something new to walk to, and I never had to hover over one spot. Is Calamvale District Park worth the drive Yes, especially if you’re on the south side of Brisbane. It’s […]

Brisbane heat and small children are not a great combination once the clock ticks past ten in the morning, so a water play park with somewhere shady to sit has become our non-negotiable for school holidays. We’ve spent the past few months driving out to parks across the south side, the bay and up towards […]

Hidden World Playground Fitzgibbon: The Rainbow Sand Park in Brisbane’s North We went to Fitzgibbon on a Saturday morning because a friend had sent me a photo of what looked like a row of tiny painted cottages sitting in the middle of a sandpit, and I could not work out from the picture whether it […]