Olinda Playspace, Olinda-Monbulk Road, Olinda

A fantastic regional play space nestled in a lovely location with great views across to Silvan Reservoir and bordered by trees and huge grassy areas.

There is a large shelter with four tables sitting in an elevated position in the centre of the playground which provides a vantage point across the whole playground. The huge play space has a large sandpit, surrounding paths and a number of areas with a soft, colourful base which makes it easy to recreate the feeling of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

Olinda Play Space

The huge sandpit has two water play areas with a water pump and balancing beam. The dry creek bed meanders down under a bridge to a massively sized frog. Don't forget to explore under the bridge to find some colourful creatures. Speaking of massively sized creatures, there's a huge gecko lolling around next to the sandpit. Let's hope little kids don't get mistaken for a juicy fly by the gecko, or you may go home with one less offspring.

Olinda Play Space

There are a range of different swings spread across the playground - take your pick from tyre swings, swings with a harness seat or some more traditional style swings. The perfect compliment to a swing is a slide and the playground has two nice tunnel slides at the end of a long ramp.

Olinda Play Space

There is a large area with a rope climbing obstacles. There is so much rope here that Houdini might have trouble extricating himself from this area.

Other fun areas include two flying foxes with disk seats, large spinning carousel, three in-ground trampolines, metal slide on the side of a little hill and two beautiful cubbies surrounded by toadstools.

Olinda Play Space

Throughout the area there are wonderful carvings of native animals and birds and other interesting artwork. Our favourites were the owls and cute wombats.

There are a number of unshaded tables and seats scattered about the playground and near the carpark (which can be muddy when the weather is unfavourable) there are toilets and a shelter with BBQs but without tables. Oscar Vintage Coffee Van is there Wednesday to Fridays 9am to 3pm and Sat and Sun 9am to 4pm.

Advice for visitors - Olinda is generally significantly cooler than lower parts of Melbourne and the playspace is very open and can get cold! Bring a jumper.

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