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Adventure Playground, Awapuni

📍 Awapuni, Gisborne

★4.6(121 Google reviews)💰FreeđŸ‘ļAll ages

Best for a whole morning with primary-age kids. Gisborne's main playground has nine play areas, a mini road system for bikes and scooters, a fenced under-fours corner, a duck lake and a volunteer train on fine summer weekends. Beach across the road.

✓ Nine play areas✓ Mini road for bikes✓ Lions train in summer✓ Duck lake✓ Beach across the road✓ Light on toddler gear
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★★★★★Featured review by Shekinah Hakaraia

Really good space to bring your kids and pets, right across the road from the beach. Just make sure your children are supervised at all times, especially around the pond, and just becareful of the main road, especially if you have young children.

🏆 Family Action Verdict

The one Gisborne playground worth planning a morning around: the obstacle courses and flying fox keep primary-age kids busy, bikes and scooters get the mini road, and the beach is across the road for afterwards. Toddlers get the gated road corner and a preschool swing, not much more. Keep small children away from the lake and the main road.

â„šī¸ What to Know Before You Go

💡Bring bikes and scooters for the mini road system on the Stanley Road corner
⏰The Lions Club train runs on fine weekends in summer for a small charge; do not promise it midweek
đŸŽŸī¸The lake is unfenced and the park borders a main road, so keep toddlers in hand
🚗Under-fours have a gated area with a shade sail by the mini road; the rest is aimed at bigger kids

đŸ’Ŧ What Families Are Saying

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4.6
★★★★★

121 Google reviews

Kids play for hours70%
Train rides on summer weekends50%
Room to run and picnic50%
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Shekinah Hakaraia

★★★★★

“Really good space to bring your kids and pets, right across the road from the beach. Just make sure your children are supervised at all times, especially around the pond, and just becareful of the main road, especially if you have young children.”

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kris Tk

★★★★★

“Soooo cool my daughter played for hours the best playground she's been to she said well done Gisborne”

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marie edmonds

★★★★★

“Plenty of Fun things to do for the Holidays at the Adventure Playground”

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Vortex Group

★★★★★

“My kids love the park plenty of space for them to run around”

Reviews from Google

Overview

The Adventure Playground fills the block between Awapuni Road, Centennial Marine Drive and Stanley Road, a minute from Waikanae Beach. Nine play areas spread under big trees: swing circles and a preschool swing, roundabouts, a seesaw, two obstacle courses with monkey bars and a flying fox, plus a Liberty Swing for children with disabilities. The mini road on the Stanley Road corner has roundabouts and traffic lights, with a gated, shaded area for under-fours. A duck lake sits in the far corner.

🕐 Opening Hours

Sunday00:00 –

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