Royal Park Nature Playground

Nature Play is located adjacent to Melbourne’s new Royal Children’s Hospital, designed  as a result of research showing that interaction with the outdoors can have profoundly beneficial impacts upon our physical and mental health, can reduce stress and even have healing properties.

Play area includes:

• A rope course with rope traverses, elevated horizontal logs and ladder and rope net.
• Three metal slides – one slide is steep, fast and twisty, another slide is shorter but very steep and the third slide is wide with a gentler pace.
• Six swings (some with safety chains) Steep grassy hill for rolling down
• Water play area with hand pumps, a couple of water sprays and channels to control the flow of water down to the sandpit below.
• Huge log and rope climbing structure
• Sandpit           
• Birds nest swing and metal skeleton of a dinosaur. 

There are lots of natural play elements such as huge rocks and logs.     

A large area has been landscaped with native and indigenous plants and bushes