Where's Victoria's Best Playground

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Posted 2014-01-01 by Lorraine A ⇒ follow

Where's Victoria's Best Playground?

I am on a mission to discover all of Victoria's best playgrounds but considering the size of the state I would love for you to share your local knowledge so everyone can enjoy taking their children to some of Victoria's best playgrounds.

As you would have noticed above, I am a mum to 4 young children who love nothing more than constantly discovering new playgrounds and testing out their new skills on adventure playgrounds.

In my experience playgrounds don't need to be new or have the best facilities to be considered as a great playground. I think atmosphere, surroundings, friendliness of locals and a playground that challenges children are what they love most.

Our favourite playgrounds include:

Woodend Children's park for it's huge flying fox, fenced in toddlers area, outstanding amount of play equipment spread out over a large area with great facilities and picnic grounds.

Yarra Glen Adventure playground, Mackenzie reserve is a fantastic all ages playground set back a little from the main street in Yarra Glen. This playground offers variety, is fairly new and incorporates great sculptures and a fun wine barrel 'stepping stones' which represents what the town is renowned for (wineries).

Sale Botanic garden adventure playground is a hidden gem that is located next to a lake. The kids can ride their bikes around, play tennis, watch the kangaroos and peacocks in the fauna reserve and race each other on the flying foxes.

Montrose Community Playground is one of my all time favourites. The community fund raised and built this fun filled playground which is great for all ages. The location is good, play equipment and atmosphere are fantastic. Lots of imaginative play for the littelies and more challenging obstacles for the older ones.

Bicentennial Park in Chelsea has huge slides for the thrill seeking children along with plenty of other play equipment. The problem with this park though is that it's large and easy to loose sight of younger children when it's busy. Personally for me the play equipment and variety is fantastic but it lacks atmosphere compared to the ones mentioned above.

Life in the eyes of children is one big adventure waiting to be discovered.

If you have a favourite playground, we would love to hear about it, you can leave a message at the top of the page.