Let’s play

Moama Recreation Reserve. Photo by Steve Huntley

Little kids and big kids alike will have fun at Echuca-Moama’s great playgrounds.

Moama Adventure Playpark

Take the kids for a meander through the Moama Botanic Gardens, before they romp around the adventure playground at the Moama Recreation Reserve.

The Moama Adventure Playpark has fixed and moving areas that include tunnels, flying foxes, climbing towers, stairs, bridges, swings, slides and sandpits.

Or take advantage of the outdoor fitness stations incorporated around the edge of the playground.

Fully landscaped, the area has a strong focus on accessibility with pathways linking throughout the site, and has been designed to cater for special groups, with the addition of wheelchair access, special play areas and a Liberty Swing.

The location is family friendly with public toilets, change rooms, drinking fountains, shelters and a canteen facility when the kids get hungry. There is also a public barbecue for BYO snags.

Where: 52 Perricoota Rd, Moama Recreation Reserve, Moama.

Hopwood Gardens

Because it’s located near Port of Echuca, this playground has equipment shaped like a paddle-steamer with ramp, steps, ladder with square rungs, tunnels, balance beam and slide.

No park would be complete without swings, which Hopwood has.

There is a fireman's pole, ladder and tic-tac-toe game plus another standalone structure with spiral slide, ladder and steering wheel.

Where: Dickson St, Echuca.

Christmas decorations on the rotunda at Hopwood Gardens. Photo by Cath Grey
Hopwood Gardens. Photo by Holly Curtis

Moama Skate Park

Moama Skate Park. Photo by Sitthixay Ditthavong

This skate park is a blend of old and new schools of skating, after a redevelopment saw the concrete jungle extended, with the skating community “stoked” to see the old park added to.

The old park hosts a combination of gnarly street sections complete with rails, a concrete double quarter with spine, and plenty of ledges.

The new part of the park has plenty of vert going on that makes for good shredding.

Where: 2 Blair St, Moama.