Wangi Foreshore Playground Reserve is located in front of Wangi Workers Club & has a small playground with lake views & set on woodchips.  

The park offers easy & challenging climbing options, twin slide, spring bouncie & outside fitness park.  There is an easy roll cycleway pathway following Wangi Wangi Bay all the way to heart of Wangi shops & RSL.  There are benches along the way & picnic tables.  You can grab a coffee from Market Street Cafe with sheltered cafe tables & four outdoor tables beside the playground.  

There is disabled parking available & sealed pathes to the playground & toilets.  

Wangi Foreshore Playground Reserve

Arcadia Vale Reserve offers a nice & open playground with water views, disabled parking & sealed pathways.

The easy climb low level slide & soft fall flooring is perfect for toddlers.  There is a swing set including, baby swing & group circular swing, spining roundabout, seesaw,  music fun station & climbing hill.   

The playground is not fenced but is surrounded by a wide flat path for easy rolling.  The path also leads from the carpark to the accessible toilets.  There are sandstone seats, lots of shaded grassland, picnic tables, scattered benches, covered electric BBQ & public jetty with ladders into the water.  

The closest Cafe can be found at Wangi or Rathmines.

Arcadia Reserve Playground

Kilaben Bay Reserve is a tranquil park with views over Lake Macquarie.  The park features a playground, picnic spots, driking fountain, beautiful garden and a public jetty for swimming with two ladders, also fishing and kayaking.

The medium-sized playground includes stepping stones, spring rockers, a bridge, double slide, monkey bars, climbing nets, swing, toddler swing and a circular swing.

The playground is on woodchips and surrounded by lush grass but is unfenced, however it is situated back from the water’s edge.

Kilaben Park is a popular picnic spot with many tall gum trees creating ample shade over large flat grass areas.   There are also four picnic tables and BBQ under a covered shelter closer to the water’s edge.

There are gardens at the top of the park via a short walking trail.  Accessible toilets can be found at the park via sealed pathway along with the car park & jetty.  There are no sealed paths to the playground.

Kilaben Bay Reserve Playground

Chapman Oval Playground in Swansea offers great views across the Swansea Channel at Lake Macquarie.  

The play equipment includes an integrated play structure with stairs, two slides, a firefighter’s pole, and a little play shop underneath.  One of the slides is steep and fast but there is also a smaller slide with stairs for kids to easily climb up.  There is also a regular swing, a baby swing and a group nest swing, balancing beam, disc platforms , rocker, spinning pole and interactive games..  The flooring of the playground is a combination of softfall and bark chips.

There are benches dotted around, picnic table, wide easy roll pathway that leads from parking lot to the large play structure. There are accessible toilets located next to the playground.  Parking can be found in car park at Chapman Oval or on Channel Street.

Across the street from the playground there is a shared pathway on Channel Street with great views of the Swansea Channel.

You can also drive down Channel Street to the carpark and go for a walk along Pirrita Island Boardwalk (see entry).  You’ll have to go to Swansea main street to find a cafe or takeaway.

Chapman Oval Playground

This beautiful walk starts at Dobinson Drive in Swansea near Swansea Lakeside Holiday Park, around 800 metres and takes about 15 – 20 minutes.

It’s an easy yet stunning walk with easy roll pathways, flat and suitable for prams and wheelchairs. It also has amazing views of Lake Macquarie, Swansea Channel and Elizabeth Island.

There is a parking area with picnic area complete with tables and BBQ facilities.  From here, follow the paved path. It soon become gravel but it’s still easy to push strollers and wheelchairs.

There are marshlands along the way along with a little lakeside cove with a gravel path, lake views onto an accessible viewing platform with amazing views of the lake.  

At this viewing point, you’ll then see the start of the boardwalk. There are two steps at the front and a ramp on the right-hand side.  At this viewing point, you’ll then see the start of the boardwalk. There are two steps at the front and a ramp on the right-hand side.  The 230-metre wide accessible boardwalk, winds through the mangroves.

If you don’t want to a long walk or cannot, you can do a variation on the walk but just drive to Pirrita Island carpark.  From there you can just walk along the boardwalk and back and you don’t need to walk along the gravel path. It’s a much shorter walk.  There is interpretative signage is installed along the boardwalk which will describe the history of Pirrita Island as well as the flora and fauna that you’ll find here. 

At start of walk, there is a BBQ and picnic tables. If you need toilets, you’ll have to drive to them. There’s a sign for public toilets but the closest toilets are actually near the Swansea boat ramp. At the end of the walk, there are toilets and picnic tables at Pirrita Island carpark.

Accessible toilets can be found at Coon Island Reserve, Thomas Humphreys Reserve & Lakeview Parade.  

You can start the walk at either the parking lot by the white bridge or Pirrita Island Carpark.

Pirrita Island Nature Reserve Boardwalk

Dobell Park is a large open park in Wangi Wangi with uninterupted views of Lake Macquarie.  

There is vast grassy area all the way down to the water's edge with a shoreline consisting of small pebbles.  There is a small playground on woodchips, shaded by large gum trees.  The playground offers a range of climbing equipment, slides, spinning sticks, swings, noughts & crosses game & monkey bars.

The park has sheltered picnic tables, BBQs along with further picnic tables & benches throughout the park.  There is ample parking available at the playground, jetty, boat ramp & a six boat trailer parking bays along with fish cleaning bay & outdoor shower.  

Accessible toilets can be found at Lake View Park, Wangi Deck Cafe, Kent Place & Wangi RSL Club.

Dobell Park

More Playgrounds nearby

Wangi Foreshore Playground Reserve

Arcadia Reserve Playground

Chapman Oval Playground