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Cardiff Bay Barrage
Location: Penarth
About: Cardiff Bay is the perfect playground for bikes and scooters as they hold a skate park as well as a large playground on a base of sand with beautiful views over the water. The playground itself is a great wooden-adventure for your litte ones to explore, with climbing frames, sand diggers, a ship wreck and more! Its the perfect park for your little ones to immerse themself in pretending to be pirates for the day!
Price: This playground is FREE
Age Suitability: Under 14's
Address: Penarth Portway, Cardiff CF64 1TP
Cosmeston Lakes Country Park
Location: Penarth
About: With more than 240 acres of land, even if you don't just visit for the playground, visiting here for the day will give you a day packed with fun! The playground here holds a good range of equipment for different ages – assorted climbing frames and swings for younger and older children, plus rotating swings and a wooden pirate ship.
Price: This playground is FREE
Age Suitability: Under 12's
Address: Lavernock Road, Penarth, Glamorgan and Cardiff, CF64 5UY, Wales
Mountain View Ranch
Location: Tongwynlais
About: This wild west themed playground is one of the reasons why the ranch gets the amount of visitors it does on a day to day basis. The wooden house climbing frames sand play features slides wooden obstacle courses and a zip wire swings keep children entertained for hours. Along with a magical fairy forest, a campfire with marshmallow toasting, hobbit houses and Wales' only officially licensed Gruffalo Trail!
Price:
- Peak - £6.00
- Off Peak - £4.00
- Under 2s - free
Age Suitability: Under 12's
Address: Heol Penybryn, Tongwynlais, Cardiff, CF83 1NG
Parc Play
Location: Grangetown
About: Here at Parc Play they have a huge indoor, outdoor and undercover play areas which make Parc perfect for all weather conditions. The indoor play area has a huge wooden castle and a climbing structure with slides; plus a dedicated toddler area. In the undercover part, there’s swings, and table football and in the outdoor section there’s a huge sand play area, an enormous slide, a zip wire, plus mud kitchens!
Price:
- Adults - £1.00
- Under 2's - £2.50
- 2 - 3 year olds - £4.50
- 4 - 12 year olds - £6.00
Age Suitability: Under 12's
Address: Unit 5, Curran Embankment, Grangetown, Cardiff, CF10 5DX
St Fagans National History Museum
Location: St Fagans
About: The open air history museum is a brilliant day out, with a newly opened playground. Most of the equipment is based on historic buildings at the museum. The playground features rocks and a tree trunk to climb on, a sandy area with smaller roof-shaped climbing frames, a rope-netted climbing frame, plus swings. This is a perfect day out for the family!
Price: This playground is FREE
Age Suitability: Under 12's
Address: Michaelston Road, Cardiff CF5 6XB
Ponty Park
Location: Pontypridd
About: This exciting adventure play area provides all the fun needed for children of all ages and abilities to enjoy a free great day out. It includes climbing frames and slides, a wooden train and a zip wire. They also have an area where they cater for the smaller children is on a sandy base, so if you plan ahead before and pack some buckets and spades, this can be a great idea.
Price: This playground is FREE
Age Suitabiity: Under 12's
Address: Ynysangharad War Memorial Park, Pontypridd CF37 4PE
Victoria Park
Location: Cardiff
About: This vast play area has areas for younger and older children with climbing frames; a spinning bowl; a zip wire slide; a rotating rope climbing frame and more. In the summer months you can also visit the newly refurbished splash pad with sprays jets a tipping water bucket another water features spread across three zones for toddlers and older children.
Price: This playground is FREE
Age Suitability: Under 12's
Address: 422 Cowbridge Rd East, Cardiff, CF5 1JL
Roath Recreation Ground
Location: Penylan
About: This playground is smaller and more manageable than the nearby Roath Park with a smaller slide and spider’s web climbing frame, as well as swings, a climbing frame and a few other smaller bits of equipment. This is perfect if you're looking for just an hour of fun with your little one and to get them out of the house for a little bit!
Price: This playground is FREE
Age Suitability: Under 8's
Address: Ninian Road, Penylan, Cardiff, CF23 5EE