Pod Playground

Pod Playground
Located - At the Village Centre of the National Arboretum Canberra at Forest Dr, Molonglo Valley ACT 2611
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Fully Fenced
Toilets
Shade Sail
Tree Shade
Car park (Pay to Park)
Bins
Picnic Area (bbq in the forest picnic area not at playground)

Fully enclosed with two entry points including wheelchair ramp
Picnic tables inside and bench seats
Bubbler inside and another outside
Toilet area inside playground and larger toilet area inside arboretum village
Paided parking for the arboretum

Playground Equipment
Smallest Acorn Pod
• vertical climbing pole with circle back rails
• curved climbing pole with circle back rails
• pod inside platform with
- acorn roofing
- leaf patterns
• fully enclosed plastic tunnel slide with starting safety rail

Entry 1 of 2 into large Acorns
• vertical ladder with circle back support
• pod inside platform
- porthole windows with large insects inside
- insect patterns on wall
• small rope bridge to left entry platform
• large rope bridge to next upper pod

• on ground level
- x2 rock climbing walls
- x2 black chalkboard walls
- rope ladder to other acorn platform entry area

Entry point 2 from flat upper section
• Weather themed pod
- thin spinning wheel making light rain noise
- spring thunder bolt wall piece
- thick spinning wheel making heavy rain noise
- thunder wind chimes move with your hands

• small rope ladder to next platform
• long rope ladder to next platform
• platform includes
- open middle acorn metal railing
- kaleidoscope viewing game

• last rope tunnel up
• final acorn platform
- safety railing at top of slide
- fully enclosed plastic spiral slide down

Floor Acorn Pod
• open pod structure with metal rails
• floor platform with metal sliding pole to lower level

• 3 slug floor sculptures with handles (can be sat on)
• musical foot bridge
- 8 foot pedals at different musical pitches

• fence features animal pattern

Jumbo Climbing Obstacle
• wide starting rope net
• rope vertical tunnel to middle of net structure
• 2 plastic hammocks between rope and hill mound
• enclosed net trampoline area with
- large weaved rope at front
- tall net walls
- 2 climbing rope fast runs up the sides to the trampoline area
- plastic trampoline mat

• Swing Set Area
- standard seat
- toddler bucket chain seat
- 2x spider net swings
(Back and forth)

Banksia Pod Sandpit Floor Area
• nature ball drop with 8 tunnels (drop small balls down and hear them rattle)
• drum area with 4 plastic drums
• Nature play table
- water/sand/bark/more
- tilting metal open funnel tray
• pod with small metal slide
• small rope netting into pod
• 2x balls on poles (3) with string moving parts
• small tunnel
• sand funnel from outside to inside
• 2 x underground speaker poles (2).

Best playground in Canberra, and really original too! Comes with awesome viewers and almost guaranteed parking.

A good place for children to learn how to communicate and spend fun time with children when the weather is nice.

Beautiful playground at National Arboretum Canberra in Molonglo Valley. Plenty of climbing for pod slides and large climb frame. Steep slide probably more suited to 5-10year olds. The bell bridge you ring with your feet as you walk over next to cute little lady bird seat sculptures. Banksia caves have cool interactive scales, bongos, echo pipes and sand play. 4 swings including 2 nest/web, 1 normal & 1 baby. Toilets available and inside cafe. Past the playground and Cafe there's a large grassy hill to enjoy the view while the kids run and roll.

One of the best playgrounds we have been to so far. The acorn shaped playground with stuffs just enough for your little ones energy. Will definitely come back again.

Great park for children of all ages. My daughter is 1.5 years old and she spent most of the time using the drums and sandpit area.

Wonderful experience being with family at this location. Recommend to anyone visiting the area.

Sensational! The playground has a big enough play area to account for large number of people, and with a different variety of play equipment to suit all ages of children. The scenic view of the arboretum is just the icing on the cake.

A wonderfully whimsical playground with great amenities. Open from 6am, 3 hours before the visitor centre opens, this is a great place for kids to play before the crowds come in.

Expansive breath taking views are available 360 degrees.

Onsite toilet with water bubbler makes this an easy place to play for hours.

We were here 5 years ago and made a point to return. Great place.

Had a great time. Billy, 3 year old nephew was in heaven. One of the best playgrounds in Canberra.

It was a disappointment. A few previous phototakers were genius. Their photos made a normal kid playground look like something very grand. It was a normal playground, well maintained, well designed climbing frame with slides, and that was it. It was small, in the middle of nowhere except for the stunning view in the nearby visitor center and it took us 20 minutes on a motorway just to get there. It may not be an ideal site seeing spot for a Sydney to Canberra 3 days visit. I don't know. The view was really great, comparable to looking down from the roof of the Parliament House.

The kids loved the playground, thou.

The kids seemed to be enjoying the playground and it is very interesting design and well thought out.

Great park for the kids, has various levels of equipment and you can spend a fair amount of time there. Pack clothes for the family accordingly as the wind can sometimes pick up. The playground can get a bit busy at times.

A realy nice park. Little to bigger kids had a blast. The coffee was nice. The views wonderful. I even likd the car park.

A regular. Good mix of older kids equipment and younger, plenty of swings, sand pit, etc.
Only complaint is only one toilet.

Amazing playground for all ages and physical abilities. It includes so many attraction points that you can easily plan to spend 2-3 hours there.

Only downside was that it happened the toilets to be out of order. Other than that kids had a blast

The playground is great, excellent variety for kids and well built. Only downside is how packed it gets, plus paid parking.

Fun place for the kids. Younger kids wanting to go all the way up to the top acorn without older kids to help, can be trying for adults

A great playground with lost of things for kids (my older kids especially enjoyed) to do. Much better than our local suburb playgrounds in Canberra. Paid parking to visit.