Markham Reserve Playground, Victory Boulevard, Ashburton
Super playground which is fully fenced and surrounded by a huge grassy area with a bike trail running past. The playground area has a long ramp running along the length of the playground with various routes up and down including disks on vertical poles, rope ladders, dual slides, climbing wall, fireman's pole, set of horizontal circles to climb up, curved ladder and block steps.
Other play areas include an area with nine horizontal and vertical climbing nets, plastic basketball nets, family sized see-saw, forest of tree branches, flying fox, hanging disks, monkey bars, monkey rungs, lotus leaf with hand wheel to rotate it, birds nest swing, path of orange pipes, wooden carved seats, covered sandpit with mechanical digger, large carved wooden kookaburras, little rocker and see-saw, chalkboard, springer and hillock with various holds to get up and small slides to get down plus stand-on spinners. There are five swings including one with harness.
Shelters with tables, unshaded seats, lots of water taps, BBQs and toilets. The playground has good access to equipment via paths. A basketball court and a small skate park is next to the playground.
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75 Victory Boulevard, Ashburton 3147 Map
