Jaypex Park Playground, Western Highway, Nhill

The highlight is a huge mound covered by a shade sail with steps leading to a platform with a very long straight plastic slide.

There is a structure for older kids with wave slide, fireman's pole, shop front, steering wheel, straight ladder, balance beam bridge, clock panel, disks on a vertical pole and flying fox. A low structure for younger kids has a curved slide, walkway, steering wheel, steps and ladder plus a clanger to hit against pipes and tic-tac-toe.

There is also a game of twister for the whole family, birds nest swing, standard swings, inverted V-shaped net climbing frame and a springer.

Big shelter with table and BBQ, water tap, unshaded tables dotted about, toilets and grassy areas.

In the area is an information board about the Mallee Fowl, an example of an Aboriginal Scar Tree and an old wagon under a shelter with tourist information.

John Shaw Neilson Cottage

Also located at Jaypex Park is the John Shaw Neilson Memorial Cottage, commemorating one of Australia's best-known lyric poets.

John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola in South Australia in 1872. His family moved to Nhill in 1889, where Neilson worked alongside his father and began writing poetry, with some of his early verses appearing in local newspapers.

The memorial cottage incorporates the two original rooms of Neilson's birthplace cottage from near Penola. The building was dismantled and brought to Nhill before being reconstructed as a memorial cottage, which opened at its present site in 1972.

The simple vertical slab cottage with a shingle roof provides a reminder of the modest rural surroundings in which Neilson grew up and of Nhill's important connection with his development as a poet.

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