Blaxland Riverside Park & Playground
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Blaxland Riverside Park is a spectacular waterside park in Sydney located along the Parramatta River. There are plenty of things to do here: walk or cycle along the riverside walking trail, hire bikes, have lunch at the family-friendly Armory Wharf Cafe, discover the historic precinct of Newington Armory, and ride the Heritage Train (open weekends only). But the main attraction for us is the fabulous playground.
Blaxland Riverside Park play space boasts some amazing architectural equipment and bright, cheerful colours. It’s beautifully designed and a world away from your usual fenced-in local playground. This unique play space provides a huge range of kids activities and challenges for all ages and abilities though is probably best suited to over 3’s.
The Play Equipment
Meandering over 3 hectares, there is water, moving play elements, high and steep landforms, and hidden and confined spaces. Our favourites are the mega-swing, tunnel slides, spinning play disk, Viking swing, the stunning multi-level tree house, and best of all the huge double flying fox, where mum or dad can go alongside less confident kids.
Water Play
Blaxland Riverside Play Space is brilliant on a hot day as it is home to the largest outdoor water play facility in NSW, so make sure you bring towels and cossies. Be warned, though, it gets hot out there! There are lots of shaded spaces to rest and picnic but the play equipment itself is out in the open so hats and sunscreen are a must.
There’s a cute little kiosk that actually serves decent coffee as well as free BBQs in the surrounding park. There are plenty of handy toilets, including baby change and limited free parking. This playground is popular, especially on weekends and school holidays so you may have to park in the P5 car park, located off Hill Road, and make use of the pathways to cycle or walk to this new play space.
Location
Blaxland Riverside Park and Playground is located at Jamieson Street, Sydney Olympic Park.
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Reviews
Adele
Mar 09 2016
LOVE LOVE LOVE this park, i mean seriously Apart from shade it's got the LOT! What really stands out is the brightly coloured playground and the Water Park is so cool. It has everything including a flying fox, huge rope swing, tunnel slides, spider nets, climbing wall, kids roundabout, huge tree house and loads more. This is a great article and i agree with you, this park is a world away from other parks in Sydney, I'm surprised it's even free! I'm a big fan of parks. We live in Sydney and have 3 girls so finding a decent park is always on our agenda. There are so many beautiful parks here we are so blessed.
Cliffy
Dec 07 2015
This park will be nice in about 50 years once the trees have had time to mature and actually provide some shade - at the moment it is just a very big, mostly unshaded green space that looks a little unfinished. On a hot, sunny day the green spaces are mostly empty with everyone crowded around the covered BBQ's placed around the perimeter of the park. I would be very surprised if the water play area was the biggest in NSW as this article states - it is tiny.
H.S.Subbaramaiah
Nov 23 2015
We had a picnic here in this Boxland Riverside Park on 22nd November 2015. Nice time with kids in play areas and pleasant heritage train raid through historic armoury ground. Pleasant walk by the side of Parramatta River for seniors. Good place to spend weekend with kids.
