Steamroller Park, Cambridge Park

I love this park, I used to play here as a kid, I just wish people would stop vandalising things so that they could unfence the steamroller (or perhaps that is an insurance issue).

This park is great for older primary school aged children. My children struggle with this park, they cannot for instance climb onto the swings (they are too high) and even if they climb the ladder or the cargo net, they cannot step from it to the platform without help as their legs are too short. So a smaller child will need help. If you have older children I am sure this park will be popular because of the flying fox. This flying fox doesn’t have a seat, just the little disc you balance on.

So the park has the following -

• Slide

• Shade cloth

• Swings

• Cargo net

• Pretend cafe

• Flying fox

• Path (for a walk)

• Covered picnic table

• Seats for adults

I actually came to this park because I needed a short walk, due to a back injury, and I knew there was a paved path. It doesn’t wrap around the block, it ends in odd places, so you cannot do laps per se, but if you have a young child who likes to go for a walk, or draw on the sidewalk with chalk, or an old injured Mum who needs a short walk, then the path is good.

This park is on a large block so there is plenty of parking around it, it is on the corner of Victoria Street and Richmond Road in Cambridge Park.

Where is it?

It is on the corner of Victoria Street and Richmond Road in Cambridge Park, which Google tells me is 195 Victoria Street, Cambridge Park in New South Wales.

 

Henry Bridgen Park, Penrith

Henry Brigden Park is on Thurston Street and Blaxland Avenue in Penrith, and they have recently added a sun shade to it. This is another park that is basic, but there is definitely enough for the kids to do. During lock downs I gave up coming here as there were often other families there too, but now it seems to be fine. It is surrounded by apartment blocks, and I think I just went a few times when there were already two and three other families there and there just isn’t enough in this park for that many families.

There is a big slide, my kids were initially scared to go up to it but that might be good for your situation, a pretend cafe, a flying fox, and swings. There is a seat from parents, it isn’t close to the park but the park is set on a large block and it is not close to the road. Even so, I don’t sit on the seat I end up standing or sitting on the larger swing.