Luckie Street, Tawa
This is one of those rare fully-featured playgrounds. Several parking areas immediately at the playground, a small toilet block, a variety of play equipment – plus a large paved area for bike riding or ball games – there is also a local council swimming pool at one corner, and across the stream are some open spaces to run around in.
It can get busy on a sunny day when the weather has been bad for a while, or around weekend swimming lessons, but the range of equipment and available space should allow you to distract your kids on to something else if what they want is occupied.
There’s not a lot of seating within the playground itself, and this is probably its only downfall from being near perfect.