Best playgrounds in Colyton
Shepherd Street Park is the Colyton playground to choose for a long visit, because its multi-age equipment on rubber softfall sits beside a BBQ, a picnic shelter and toilets. Most other playgrounds in the suburb are small neighbourhood playspaces built around a multiplay unit and a shade sail, so the choice comes down to what's around the equipment: toilets, a barbecue, accessible pieces or a lake.
Quick picks
- Lunch and play: Shepherd Street Park puts a BBQ, a sheltered picnic area and toilets beside its playground.
- Every ability: Gilmour Park adds an accessible rocker and a low balance beam to its multi-play unit.
- Nappy changes: Kevin Dwyer Park is where to go with a baby, with a change table in its toilet block.
Shepherd Street Park for a BBQ lunch between turns
- Toilets
- BBQ
Shepherd Street Park is the Colyton playground built for a longer stay, because a BBQ, a sheltered picnic area, toilets and drinking water share its small grounds with the equipment. The equipment is built for mixed ages, so a younger child and an older sibling don't need separate parks. Rubber softfall under the equipment gives a cushioned landing when someone slips. The shelter covers the picnic area, and on hot or changeable days it pays to claim it early if you plan to cook. For toilets, your other choices are Kevin Dwyer Park and Potter Field, which is 0.1 km away with its own car park off Shepherd Street.
Best for: Siblings of different ages, and families staying through lunch
Gilmour Park for children of every ability
- Shade
- Accessible play
Gilmour Park gives children of different abilities the most ways to play in Colyton, with an accessible rocker and a low balance beam beside an upgraded multi-play unit. That unit has climbing features and slides, and there's a swing set too. A mini bike path lets young riders pedal while their siblings climb. Penrith City Council rebuilt the playspace with NSW Government money from the Western Sydney Infrastructure Grants Program, but kept the old shade sail over the play area and the community artwork. A shaded picnic table and bench seating give you a place to sit within sight of the equipment. Paperbark Reserve, 0.3 km away, adds a nest swing if the kids want more.
Best for: Children who need accessible equipment, and young riders
Kevin Dwyer Park for babies and soccer days
- Toilets
Kevin Dwyer Park is the stop for parents with a baby, because its public toilets, among only three in Colyton, come with a baby change table. Little ones have a toys area and their own play space. At 6.12 ha it's also the largest Colyton park in the table, home to the Roper Road Soccer Fields, where the St Marys Band Club Rangers Football Club trains and plays. That makes it handy when an older sibling has soccer. Each Christmas the park hosts Team Colyton Carols from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Typing Roper Road Soccer Fields into a maps app finds it when the park's own name won't. Iron Bark Way Reserve, 0.3 km away, has a nest swing under a shade sail.
Best for: Parents with babies, and families at soccer training
How the playgrounds compare
By area
Every playground in and near Colyton
Below, each Colyton playground gets a row showing what's known about its fence, shade, toilets, BBQ and parking, with the closest playgrounds outside the suburb after them.
| Park | Shade | Toilets | BBQ | Parking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.Shepherd Street Park | – | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| 2.Gilmour Park | ✓ | – | – | – |
| 3.Kevin Dwyer Park | – | ✓ | – | – |
| 4.Potter Field | – | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| 5.Gunning Park | ✓ | – | ✓ | – |
| 6.Iron Bark Way Reserve | ✓ | – | – | – |
| 7.Kevin Maley Park | ✓ | – | – | – |
| 8.Ted Little Park | ✓ | – | – | – |
| 9.Mick Martin Park | ✓ | – | – | – |
| 10.Paperbark Reserve | – | – | – | – |
| Nearby, outside Colyton | ||||
| Mount Druitt Park · Mount Druitt | – | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Beresford Street Reserve · St Marys | – | – | – | – |
| Schultz Street Reserve · St Marys | – | – | – | – |
| Margaret Porter Reserve · St Marys | – | – | – | – |
How we picked
We scored each playground on a fence around the play area, shade, toilets, a BBQ, accessible equipment, water play and parking, with a small bonus for parks of 1 ha or more. A park also needed enough known detail to fill a section, which kept Potter Field, with toilets and parking but little known about its play equipment, in the table only. A dash in the table means we don't know, and it costs a park nothing.
FAQ
Is there a fenced playground in Colyton?
No playground in Colyton is known to be fenced, so stay close to a toddler who likes to run. Ted Little Park keeps its seating right beside the equipment, which makes that easier.
Which Colyton playgrounds have toilets?
In Colyton, Shepherd Street Park, Kevin Dwyer Park and Potter Field each have a public toilet block on the same grounds as the playground. Kevin Dwyer Park also has a baby change table, and Shepherd Street Park has drinking water.
Where can you have a BBQ near a Colyton playground?
Shepherd Street Park has a BBQ and a shelter in its picnic area, next to the playground. Gunning Park on Marsden Rd also has barbecue facilities, with shaded spots to sit near its playground and lake.
Does Colyton have accessible play equipment?
Gilmour Park on Gilmour Street has an accessible rocker, the one piece of accessible play equipment known in Colyton. Pathways added in its upgrade lead through the reserve to the playspace.