{"id":110,"date":"2026-03-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getthekidsout.com.au\/?p=110"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:00:00","slug":"best-free-playgrounds-inner-north-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getthekidsout.com.au\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"10 Best Free Playgrounds in Melbourne’s Inner North"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our pick of the best free playgrounds across Fitzroy, Collingwood, Brunswick, Carlton, and Northcote.<\/p>\n

The inner north has some of Melbourne’s best playgrounds \u2014 and they’re all free. Here are 10 we return to again and again with kids of different ages.<\/p>\n

1. Edinburgh Gardens Playground (Fitzroy North)<\/h2>\n

Huge playground with a flying fox, climbing structure, sand pit, and accessible swings. Great caf\u00e9 adjacent. Gets busy on sunny weekends but still manageable.<\/p>\n

2. Curtain Square Park (Carlton)<\/h2>\n

Compact but brilliant toddler equipment in a leafy square. Walking distance from the Royal Exhibition Building for a cultural add-on.<\/p>\n

3. Darling Gardens (Clifton Hill)<\/h2>\n

One of the prettiest parks in Melbourne. The playground is good, but the whole park is the attraction \u2014 ducks, rotunda, massive fig trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our pick of the best free playgrounds across Fitzroy, Collingwood, Brunswick, Carlton, and Northcote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,36,38],"age_range":[],"suburb":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parks","tag-fitzroy","tag-free","tag-toddlers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getthekidsout.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getthekidsout.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getthekidsout.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getthekidsout.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getthekidsout.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getthekidsout.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getthekidsout.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getthekidsout.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getthekidsout.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"age_range","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getthekidsout.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fage_range&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"suburb","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getthekidsout.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fsuburb&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}