The Best Playgrounds in Tarneit and Truganina
Tarneit and Truganina, in the west of Melbourne, is a rapidly growing area which has more than 50 playgrounds. New housing estates in this area mean that there are plenty of great playgrounds to explore. Playgrounds in this area don't typically feature huge slides but offer fun and interesting play areas, often with great extra features such as bike tracks for young riders or water play features.
Our top Tarneit / Truganina playgrounds are:
Dinosaur Park Playground
Address: 41 Altezze Drive, Truganina
The playground has the Jurassic theme delightfully spun throughout. The playground is guarded by a climbable dinosaur head which leads to the top of some dual slides. There are two flying foxes, a big climbing net, a delightful dragonfly see-saw, a pit to search for fossils, a green dinosaur springer which seats two kids, dinosaur eggs with baby dinosaurs bursting out and dinosaur skeleton for budding palaeontologists. No toilets.
Grizzly Bear Park Playground
Address: 15 Alaska Road, Truganina
A delightful playground, suited to younger kids, which tells a story based around an Alaska theme starring a huge rotund Grizzly Bear which has been gorging on salmon from the local river.
Forsyth Park Playground
Address: Cnr Silverbrush Way and Perennial Drive, Truganina
The playground has a lot of facilities to keep family members of all ages occupied including a grassy area with football posts in one direction and soccer goals in the other direction, a tennis rebound wall, basketball court, fitness area, a landscaped area with concrete tracks with road markings to let kids practice the road rules on their bikes and trikes, an enclosed area for exercising dogs and a range of play equipment. Nicely landscaped with dry rocky creek beds, picnic facilities and toilets.
Aeroplane Park Playground
Address: 27 Stanhope Road, Tarneit
A playground in the form of an aeroplane with a super cockpit with seats for the captain and flight engineer and wonderful panels inside the plane to keep the passengers entertained.
Habitat Neighbourhood Park Playground
Address: 14 Hodgson Avenue, Tarneit
The playground is surrounded by a huge bike racing track with a black surface and white line markings which just screams out - let's race! There's a long line of climbing obstacles made from wood and rope with some slides as well as a big soft dome with a big metal tunnel slide. At one end of the large playground area are a variety of swings, sandpit with a huge snake on the side, fun snake themed disk spinner and a super fun wooden creature springer. Picnic facilities and an outdoor gym next to the trail running beside Davis Creek.
Mariposa Way Playground
Address: Mariposa Way, Tarneit
The playground has the theme of the life cycle of a butterfly running through it which includes a big shelter with a butterfly shaped roof, butterfly and chrysalis sculptures and seats with giant caterpillars. Apart from the main play structure there are lots of different types of swings. There is a basketball court and picnic facilities.
Navigation Park Playground
Address: Universal Road, Tarneit
This is a playground for climbers with lots of bouldering, parkour and Ninja elements. The centrepiece is a high mound with a difficult climbing wall on one side because the concrete is curved to an overhang and on the other side is a very steep concrete slide. A shelter and table but no BBQs.
Navigation Park Playground
Address: 42 Voyager Boulevard, Tarneit
The highlight of the playground is the water play area. A big metal elephant has come down to the waterhole to drink. You can rotate a lever at the back of the elephant and water comes out its trunk into a channel which combines with other channels from three other water pumps and passes through sluice gates. Beat out an African rhythm using the xylophone on the side of the elephant.
There is a tower play structure with some slides and bridges, basic skate park, basketball court, picnic facilities, toilets and grassy area with football goal posts and volleyball net.
See the full list of all playgrounds and activities in Tarneit and the full list of all playgrounds and activities in Truganina.
