The Top 20 Parks in Melbourne, Victoria

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Seriously amazing children’s area! It’s in the Botanical Gardens, completely self contained. There’s a vegetable garden with sand pit when you walk in, tonnes of little trails, mazes and trees. The best bit is the long, shallow, wading river where kiddies put their feet in and float leaf boats down. There is…

Liz O.

The Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden

If you’re looking for a car free and pretty much traffic light free route to run, walk or cycle around the inner suburbs of Melbourne then this is the spot!Winding its way along the Yarra River from Fed Square (heading east), past the Collingwood Children’s Farm and Abbotsford Convent, you eventually come to…

Jill B.

Capital City Bike Trail

I love going for a run or walk around The Tan Track. It’s such a beautiful part of Melbourne with the lower part taking in the river, the dreaded Anderson St hill perfect for some hill sprints and the upper side encircling the Botanic Gardens and cafes along Domain Road.There are 250m markers all the way along…

Jill B.

The Tan Track

The Royal Botanic Gardens is Melbourne’s answer to NYC’s Central Park, Chicago’s Millennium Park, and Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden. Is a great park? Absolutely. There’s definitely places where you could just sit and watch the world go by. Does it have Central Park or Millennium Park’s charisma? Unfortunately…

Steve N.

Royal Botanic Gardens

Sure it’s always nice to have a park, especially in the middle of the city, but this one just doesn’t do it for me. The first thing I noticed is the unevenness of the terrain; it’s very slanty. Another thing is the crowd. Sure, being in the «rich» part of the CBD, the people tend to dress a little nicer than…