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If you’re looking for a family-friendly playground in Rockbank that works for all ages, Central Park near the Woodlea Town Centre is worth a visit. The standout feature of this colourful adventure playground is the huge tower with its eye-catching pink twisty slide, plus rock-climbing walls and more, and is surrounded by sand, making it like a giant sand pit— perfect for a long morning of fun!
Read MoreDown under the Westgate Tollway overpass is an epic pump track! This is best suited to little and big daredevils on scooters and bikes. There are plenty of bumps and dips across the asphalt with FOUR bike tracks on site!
Read MoreEbb Drive Park is the newest addition to the Riverside neighbourhood in Tarneit, and Mamma says it’s a goodie! Your kiddies will be in awe of the huge tower structure with a big tunnel slide - they’ll run up the soft surface ramp or climb up the wooden logs or scrambling rock-climbing wall to get to the top. There are ropes and hanging discs to play with underneath the gigantic structure too!
Read MoreMamma has to get you up to speed with the newly upgraded Hillside Recreation Reserve - your littlies are going to adore it. Mamma's minis always make a beeline for the rock-climbing block - perfect for all abilities, including extra challenges for the more adventurous kiddos. There are trampolines, slides, swings, sand play ovals, a basketball court, skate ramp, and a mini ninja course too!
Read MoreRippleside Inclusive Playspace near Geelong is a must add to your adventure list folks - it might be one of the best parks that Mamma has ever been to! The playspace is part of the Livvi’s Place network which means it’s fully inclusive for all kids of all abilities. It's fenced, has swings, slides, water and sensory play galore, is shaded, has toilets and BBQ's - what more could a Mamma ask for!
Read MoreBright, fully fenced playground in Armstrong Creek with flying fox, climbing, sandpit and swings. A fun community spot for kids and families.
Read MoreYou’ll see the giant silver tunnel slide from miles away - it’s huge, and ready for your thrill seekers to enjoy exhilarating rides down.
Read MoreMamma is speechless… Hazelwood Park in Aintree's Woodlea Estate is just gorgeous and certainly is one of the best play spaces that we have ever seen! This park is something special - with every piece of play equipment that your little one could wish for, including special fairy doors sprinkled across the space, you'll spend hours here at this whimsical wonderland for your little ones.
Read MoreRosehill Park Playground in Keilor East has all the little details covered for the perfect play day for you and your kids! Play equipment for all the ages, amenities galore and lots of space for family sports, Mamma loves to spend hours at this park. You'll find a huge climbing stature with the fastest slide for your mini to race down, ladders, ropes, flying foxes, swings, a sand pit, and more!
Read MoreWell folks, the cutest little play space in Essendon has expanded, and Mamma sure isn’t mad about it! Clarinda Park Playspace is small, but mighty - mighty fun for your little ones! The space sparks fun and adventure through a huge range of equipment and nature play, including a 4-way animal themed springer, high rope climb, bright coloured cluster climbers, and a humongous sand pit - so fun!
Read MoreCosmopolitan Drive Park needs to be added to your list of parks to explore - it is huge, bright, jam packed with fun, and right in the middle of Jubilee Estate in Wyndham Vale. Centered around a huge yellow and orange climbing tower with a long twisty slide, your minis will need to climb robes, rock climbing walls, even make their way up an indoor tunnel to get right up to the top of the tower!
Read MoreMamma loves a park that caters for all the ages - and Kevin Flint Memorial Reserve Playground in Cairnlea does just that! With three distinct playgrounds, all of your kiddos are going to have a blast at this park! You’ll find sandpits, diggers, rock climbing walls, more slides than Mamma can count on one hand (straight, tube, colourful, little slides, big slides, and more!), swings, flying foxes, naughts and crosses, ropes to climb, wooden logs, a pretend general store, seesaws, spinners, musical instruments… gee whizz, what doesn’t this park have!?
Read MorePop your airplane mode ON folks, and make sure your kiddos have packed their bags and are ready to fly - Hangar Street Park in Riverwalk, Werribee is about to take off! Centred around the most fantastic aeroplane themed play equipment, your kids will love playing on the slides, ramps, ropes, spinners, in built games, swings (both seated and basket), spinner, see-saw, rockers and so much more!
Read MoreNow this is what you call a playground - Cambridge Crescent Park in Werribee is the cutest of adventure spaces for your minis! Mamma loves a park with pretend play, and Cambridge Crescent Park sure delivers on this in spades. Your little one’s imagination will run wild with the play service station and electric car charging station - you’ll be at the gas station filling up your pretend cars for hours!
Read MoreFolks of Point Cook - did you know your favourite Boardwalk Park Playground has some fantastic upgraded play equipment? Well, if you didn’t - run, don’t walk - because this one is a winner! The kids will be guaranteed to take off up the curved ramp when they arrive - they’ll be sprinting towards the huge green tunnel slide at the high point of the ramp, alongside the blue straight slide, rock climbing wall and hanging climbing ropes. There’s a large sandpit with a digger, a seated spinner (get ready to be dizzy!), a see-saw, swing set, a netted basked swing, find a word puzzles, and so much more!
Read MoreMamma knows of the cutest playspace for your little ones in Sunshine North! Let us introduce you to the new Willowbark Park - it’s full of fun! The park is centred around a gigantic play tower that has two massive slides stemming from it - a windy blue slide for the older kids, and a smaller grey slide for the mini’s. Mamma’s little one absolutely loves climbing up the ropes too!
Read MoreHave you ever seen a play space featuring a huge climbing wall covered with a colourful ‘Finding Nemo’ theme mural on one side, and a large reptile on the other? Well - Cameron Drive Park in Hoppers Crossing is special folks, your kiddies will have an absolute ball playing with this. Mamma’s mini loves to pretend to be inside the mouth of a shark, or right in the centre of a fish… there’s no wonder why this playground is a favourite for the locals.
Read MoreIf you are looking for gold - then this is the playground to start digging - This Pirate themed park is fantastic.
Read MoreAhoy me hearties, are you ready for a fun filled adventure? Well, Mamma says your little pirates will love Anchoridge Park Playground in Armstrong Creek, Geelong. The main playground has been designed in the shape of an anchor, providing your kids of all ages with hours of fun as they climb the rocks, adventure up the climbing net and set sail using their imagination in the cube fort.
Read MoreAlert! Alert! Another great playground in Rockbank! This one has a cafe on its doorstep (win!) Rope bridges, sand pits, water play, swings, slides, monkey bars, rocks, tree trunks - honestly Mamma could go on and on and on about the elements of play here.
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