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Piney Lakes Sensory Play Park

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Piney Lakes Sensory Play Park is an inclusive park. It attracts diverse users and is a space where people experiencing disability can play and interact alongside their family, friends and community.

Artwork, sculpture and established trees feature throughout the park making this a unique and special place to visit.

Please be aware dogs are Prohibited within the Piney Lakes Sensory Play Park.

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Location

Piney Lakes Sensory Play Park, Off Murdoch Drive Winthrop WA 6150 Get Directions

The newly upgraded amphitheatre – Play Park Features

  • Wheelchair access (elevated platforms, pathways, and undercrofts)
  • Musical sound elements
  • A big concrete slide with transfer platform
  • A little concrete slide from central tower
  • Rocks and logs for clambering and balance
  • Planting for sensory experiences, shade and wildlife
  • Monkey bars and central rope climb
  • Cocoon hammock nest and expression cubes
  • Educational finger tracing panels referencing the surrounding wildlife
 
*Note this playspace is not fully fenced

Broader Play Park Features

  • Seating and grassy areas naturally shaded by trees
  • Raised gardens bordering the play areas are abundant with colours, textures, smells and is home to native animals.
  • Wide paths and high paths, ramps and bridges around the site offer different challenges under wheels
  • Water and sand play areas feature accessible play tables (bring a change of clothes for the water play area!)
  • A turtle dome along with connecting sand, balance elements and rollover bars
  • A feature balance seesaw
  • Little off to the side areas offer quieter spaces such as the story chair nook with pirates map
  • Perennial herb gardens (feel free to pick some to take home and leave enough for the next person)
  • Accessible drink fountain (with tap for bottle refill)
  • Accessible picnic tables set at different heights central to the water and sand play area overlook the lake
  • Accessible roundabout
  • Swings – including toddler swings, an older kids swing, a basket swing and swing with back support and straps
  • A labyrinth with coloured peepholes and speaker phones for three way conversations
  • Artwork/sculpture feature throughout the site (the letters in the word SENSORY are out to play, can you find them in the park?)
  • Please note the park is unfenced

Watch and explore

Watch the exciting build unfold of the recently upgraded amphitheatre and explore some of the new play elements.

Watch and Explore

Experience Piney Lakes Sensory Play Park.

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Adjacent Facilities Include

* This is an inclusive space - please consider the needs and abilities of all users.

  • Lake adjacent, abundant with flora and fauna, offers relaxing views and water fountain sounds
  • Four accessible parking bays
  • Two accessible unisex toilets (fitted with adult change tables and LH or RH grab rails)
  • Bus Parking
  • Accessible BBQ with shelter
  • A fenced dog park (three fenced areas; for large dogs, small dogs and dog agility)
  • Piney Lakes EcoHub (Environment Centre), a 13 minute walk or 5 minute drive from the play space
  • To learn more about the wildlife around you and to find tailored events and activities visit Environment and Sustainability events
  • To find out what's happening in the area, sign up to our Sustainability and Environment, Accessible Inclusive Melville and Arts eNewsletters – monthly eNewsletters packed with information on what's happening in Melville.

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The City of Melville acknowledges the Bibbulmun people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which the City stands today and pays its respects to the Whadjuk people, and Elders both past and present.

City of Melville nagolik Bibbulmen Nyungar ally-maga milgebar gardukung naga boordjar-il narnga allidja yugow yeye wer ali kaanya Whadjack Nyungar wer netingar quadja wer burdik.