When you have your first baby, you have no idea how important your local playgrounds are going to be in your life.
But it’s when you have your second child that you realise how important it is to know where are all the fully-enclosed, fenced playgrounds are.
Let’s raise a cheer for all the councils and playground designers who put a nice tall fence around their playgrounds. What a relief for parents whose kids are at that… awkward… age…. the age of escape.
It’s no fun to see your toddler running off whilst you’re breastfeeding that new baby.
Trust me, I know.
Or for those of us (and there are heaps of us) who have twins, triplets or more or children with special needs, knowing where to find a good fenced playground is, literally, a lifesaver.
I’ve done a post on Best Fenced Playgrounds in Sydney – North, and here’s the Eastern Suburbs version.
For other areas of Sydney suburbs see my post How To Find Fenced Playgrounds In Your Local Area.
Here follows a list with a link where you can read more about the playgrounds. When I’ve photographed them all – when will that be?!! – I will prettify this post with more photos.
The Top Nine Fenced Playgrounds in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs
1. Bieler Reserve Playground, Randwick
It’s only a small one but it has good, new equipment, great for pre-school children. There are shops nearby on Frenchmans Road, and parking is not bad. Read more at the Randwick Council website here.
2. Bondi Beach Playground
Wonderful views from this playground, it’s especially good for younger children. Read a full post about it here.
3. Clementson Park Playground, Bondi Junction
4. Lyne Park Playground, Rose Bay
My post with photos and all the info you need coming imminently.
Read all the information you need for a great trip to this Lyne Park playground here.
5. Malabar Beach Playground
Close to the beach at Malabar, great for little kids. Read more and see a photo at Ellaslist here.
6. Maroubra Beach Playground
My post with photos and all the info you need coming imminently.
7. Queens Park Playground, Randwick
This playground is part of Queens Park so there are plenty of opportunities to run wild, as well as to play in fenced safety. It’s on Darley Road where you can usually find parking. Read our full post on this top playground here.
8. Robertson Park Playground, Watson’s Bay
This makes a great stop off before or after a visit to Watson’s Bay Tea Gardens, and the nearby Baths. Read all the info you need on my post about Robertson Park playground here.
9. Rushcutters Bay Playground
Great spot, with a cafe right alongside. See photos and all the info you need on my post here.
You can print out this map, just click here: Eastern Suburbs1
Of course, we love loads of other playgrounds in the Eastern Suburbs, Coogee’s is excellent, as are the playgrounds at Centennial Park and Bronte Beach. But sometimes, a fenced playground is just the best… for a wee rest.
Hope you find this helpful!
Please let me know of other great fenced playgrounds in this area, always delighted to improve a post.
Happy playground hunting.
LOL! One of my not so great moments as a mother was at an unfenced playground breastfeeding a new baby, eldest child in a wheelchair and a runaway toddler. It was one of those many moments that in my head I was saying “there is no dignity in motherhood”
Love this series 🙂
Ah, sad but true, there is no dignity… even now when they are all so much more grown up. And now I’m embarassing them as well as myself… just a stage, I hope!
Ha ha – I love fenced playgrounds – my fave in Perth has a divine cafe across the road and ticks all the boxes 🙂
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Right, next time we head over… sadly no plans… I’ll be emailing to ask for all the details! Thank you. Nothing like the playground/cafe combo.
Awesome guide there Seana. Very practical. – I loved Rushcutters – my daughter cut her teeth there – and great coffee too.
Hi Kim, I remember going there with my bolting first son and NOT finding it relaxing. Visits since the new fenced playground went in have been great.
Haha. Oh I had a madam so it was different. She wanted to sit around drinking baby caps, but we also tried the fence option – was also good.
Ohh I wish there were more fenced playgrounds near me. Drives me nuts that councils spend a fortune on building awesome parks and playgrounds right near the road!
Me too… and there are also loads of playgrounds RIGHT alongside the Harbour, right by deep water… so dangerous for those of us with wayward kids… or not so since I avoided them like the plague when the children were little.
Great post – pity I don’t live anywhere near there ;o( If I may I’d like to add Carss Park Bush Park to that list for the St Georgies. Awesome fenced off park with great coffee.
I’ve always been fortunate to live in areas where there’s an abundance of parks and none of them near main roads. It is like you say, you don’t really discover your local parks until you have children xx
My eldest was such a terrible bolter with no idea of safety, and then with twins, and ADHD and ASD, I’ve had to learn to love parks and to kknow the safe ones. Luckily we are all safe now, but i do love passing on info to the mums and dads who still have little kids or ones with additional needs. SO MANY playgrounds are by water here in Sydney – shocking that they aren’t secured.
Can highly recommend L’Estrange Park in Mascot. Cnr of King and Sutherland St Fenced, great modern equipment and landscaping, great slides and swings, has shade, good for tiny tots and older tots. Sand and water feature so assume your kids will get wet/mucky!
Thank you so much – I will add this one in… much appreciated!!