Enmore Park on the exciting cusp of Enmore, Newtown and Marrickville is more than just your usual inner-city park, it is beautiful and historic with many appealing features. It is family friendly, dog friendly, scooter friendly, festival friendly, in fact, all are welcome and encouraged. It has large green areas for lazy lounging, shady trees for reading underneath and lots of picnic opportunity areas.
Enmore Park
Its main feature is the newly-renovated and snazzy
Annette Kellerman Aquatic Centre, also known as Enmore Pool, which is one of the most ecologically sustainable aquatic centres in Australia. The pool is completely indoors but the large open glass windows allow a lovely, wafting well-appreciated breeze.
Apart from a fifty-metre, eight- lane pool for energetic lap swimmers, there is also a hydrotherapy pool for learn-to-swim lessons, aqua-aerobics classes and a baby/toddler pool. It also has a crèche which would make it easier and appealing for many busy parents. Its cafe has both indoor and outdoor areas for nourishment after some fun and exercise.
Annette Kellerman Aquatic Centre
Another change to the park is the new children's playground, also completed in 2010. While the old playground was adequate, locals definitely welcomed the colourful new face-lift. The new area features stimulating equipment for active kids to jump, bounce and run while mums and dads sit in the shade and breathe deeply. The existing iconic rocket ship wasn't removed and still remains, albeit sometimes a slightly tricky goal for some toddlers.
Playground
Marrickville Council's ever popular
Magic Yellow Bus visits each Thursday between 9.30am and 12.30pm. It's a free mobile service that organises activities for children and their parents or carers from six weeks to twelve years old. It allows children to explore and try new activities in the park and sunshine while parents can chat and catch up with friends.
Magic Yellow Bus
All parks need to offer some sort of food and sustenance and Enmore Park certainly does. Its cosy retro Petty Cash cafe on the Victoria Rd side of the park always provides great coffee with a diverse and healthy menu. It is proud to be breastfeeding friendly, has relaxed indoor and outdoor seating with books and magazines for reading. They're happy to do takeaways if you want to sit in the sun in the park.
Festival-wise, each year, the park hosts the Australia Day celebration which features a range of family-friendly activities throughout the day, such as mini putt putt, the Magic Yellow Bus and the Stonevilla artists. It has a plethora of multicultural food delights and local talents.
And as with most inner-city parks, it is dog friendly as long as they are on a leash and away from the kiddies' playground. And if all that outside activity makes you parched, the vibrant Vic on the Park pub is just opposite on Addison St. It serves a good choice of beers and wines and tasty food in its colourful surroundings. And just to make things easier and even more enticing, parking is ample on all three sides of the park, apart from the Enmore Rd section.
