This park is part of the large facilities that you access off of King Street in Penrith, but one side of it sits on Northern Road so the Council has called it the Parker Street Reserve. You have probably gone here with your school, or your kids’ school, for the soccer fields or an athletics carnival.
It has some stuff that was perfect for my children (4 and 6 years old at the time) and some stuff that was really only useable by teenagers or larger children. There are two slides, a pretend cafe, various things for smaller children to climb on, a firemans pole, monkey bars, a flying fox, and you can get to the slides by using a metal climbing frame or by stairs. You can see the soccer fields from the seats for adults, but there is a fence between the park and the soccer field so you don’t need to worry about a smaller child running under a bunch of adults playing soccer. The fence does not wrap around the whole park, so it isn’t ideal for children who run. There is no shade cloth but it is surrounded by trees and every time I have been there it has been mostly in shade, though I mostly went there in winter so I don’t know how the summer sun lands on this park.
