The BEST Playground Slides in Melbourne
Why did the chicken cross the playground? To get to the other slide of course. Kids will be brushing aside all the chickens in the rush to get to these super slides which are sure to get any kid's adrenaline racing. Here are some of our favourites which should keep any adrenaline junkie satisfied:-)
Our choice of the best playground slides is:
Bayview Park (Point Cook) (Walk the plank from the pirate ship on the top of the hill down a massive and fast slide)
Upper Point Cook Playground (Point Cook) (Two huge curving metal slides with a three level tower)
Mandrel Drive Playground (Williams Landing) (Ride down from the airport control tower)
Bicentennial Park (Chelsea) (Two long slides down a big mound for younger kids)
Coburg Lake Reserve Playground (Coburg) (Multi-level tower with two metal tunnel slides)
Central Gardens Playground (Hawthorn) (Blast off to the moon in the rocket and come back to earth with the tunnel slide)
Booran Reservoir Playspace (Glen Huntly) (Massive slide which is reached by a tricky climb)
Bullion Park Playground (Rockbank) (The first playground in the epi-centre of big slides - Rockbank)
Frontier Park (Rockbank) (The wild west for big slides in Melbourne)
Jackwood Park (Rockbank) (Tower with two high twisting tunnel slides)
Hannah Watts Park Senior Playground (Melton) (Big curved tunnel slide from the second level of a tower)
Eliston District Park Playground (Clyde North) (Tower with two massive and fast slides)
Cardinia Community Adventure Playground (Pakenham) (Tower with three big tunnel slides)
The Grove Playground (Tarneit) (Very high and twisting slide)
Ron Barassi Snr Park Playground (Docklands) (Two very steep metal slides)
Tooradin Foreshore Reserve Playground (Tooradin) (Big tunnel slide out of a lighthouse)
Verdant Park Playground (Doncaster) (Twin epic tunnel slides)
Ringwood Lake Playground (Ringwood) (Shady area with multiple nice slides)
Royal Park Nature Playground (Parkville) (Winner of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects award for the country's overall best public play space)
Gumnut Park Playground (Donnybrook) (Two big tunnel slides from elevated cubbies)
Surrey Park (Box Hill) (The pleasure of sliding dizziness)
Ruffey Lake Park, Victoria Street (Doncaster East) (Wear the right clothes and you can generate enough static electricity to power the neighbourhood while sliding down)
Rosebud Foreshore Playground (Rosebud) (Hot snaking metal slide down the hill - especially in summer)
Casey Fields Playground (Cranbourne East) (Curving slide down the side of a hill)
Hogans Road Playground (Hoppers Crossing) (Especially for triplets who won't share sliding time)
Quambee Reserve (Ringwood North) (Giant curving slide)
Braybrook Park Aeroplane Playground (Braybrook) (Every control tower obviously needs a fast exit option)
Wesburn Park (Wesburn) (Twisting tunnel slide)
Box Hill Gardens (Box Hill) (Tall tower with twisting tunnel slide)
Harleston Park (Elsternwick) (Very long metal slide down the side of a hill)
Montgomery Reserve (Essendon) (Extremely long straight metal slide down the side of a hill)
Wilson Reserve, Ivanhoe (Long curved metal slide which is especially fun on a blanket)
Fitzwilliam Circuit Playground (Clyde North) (Tall tower with a curved and straight tunnel slide)
Navan Park (Melton) (Tower with two big twisting metal tunnel slides)
Buckingham Reserve (Sunshine West) (Tower with big twisting metal tunnel slide)
Price Park (Viewbank) (Huge tunnel slide accessible from a big atom shaped rope climbing frame)
Golden Sun Moth Park Playground (Craigieburn) (Tunnel slide off the back of a giant moth)
Waverley Park Lake Playground (Mulgrave) (Tower with a big tunnel slide)
Isabella Williams Memorial Reserve (Deer Park) (Long slides in a volcanic landscape)
Community Bank Adventure Play Space (Wallan) (Two level tower with a twisting slide, straight tunnel slide and dual wave slides)
A YouTube playlist of these playgrounds is here.
If you are venturing outside Melbourne check out these monsters:
Howitt Park (Bairnsdale) (Wormtastic slide down the side of the hill)
Giant Yambuk Slide, Yambuk (33m long slide at Yambuk beach)
Neerim East Road, Neerim South (Three high towers with exciting tunnel and twisting spiral slides)
If you are venturing even further afield overseas, then keep an eye open for some of these Most Unusual Playgrounds of the World on your travels including the concrete Seward Street Slides down a San Francisco hill (need we say any more) or a 26m long Dragon tongue slide in France.
