Cureton Street, Morrinsville 3372
Two reviewers explicitly describe the playground as fenced/enclosed - real mitigation for the toddler wander problem, even with pump track alongside. Swings and pump track make it a small kit but usable for early bike/scooter skills. Paddling pool, skate bowl and 50m outdoor pool are elsewhere in the 22ha ground, not immediately on the play surface.
Description explicitly calls this a small, bark surfaced play area, with only on street parking and no accessible path or parking provision described despite a general claim in one review that the wider recreation ground is accessible to all.
Morrinsville Recreation Ground's playground is a small, bark surfaced play area centred on swings and a pump track, best suited to younger children and to kids working on bike and scooter skills, tucked into a much larger 22 hectare sports complex on Cureton Street.
HistoryPlayground established: 2015.
Source: services1.arcgis.comHistoryThe Morrinsville Recreation Ground is a 22ha park established in an area planned and named by Auckland entrepreneur Thomas Morrin, who bought approximately 30,000 acres in 1874 and established the Lockerbie estate. Trees on the recreation ground were planted in the 1920s and are noted for their size and beauty.
Source: mpdc.govt.nzHistoryMorrinsville Recreation Ground has a first-class cricket pedigree: it hosted Shell Trophy matches between Northern Districts and Central Districts (1986/87) and Northern Districts and Wellington (1988/89), plus a Youth One Day International between New Zealand and India Under-19s in 1988, though no first-class cricket has been played there since.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCultureMorrinsville town was planned in 1874 by Auckland entrepreneur Thomas Morrin on land called Lockerbie. The town became a Waikato agricultural hub, central to a railway junction opened in 1884 that linked Hamilton, the Coromandel, Te Aroha and Rotorua. Dairying made it one of the most intensively farmed districts in the Waikato.
Source: teara.govt.nzOn siteEquipment includes swings, pump track.
Source: services1.arcgis.comOn siteJunior-suitable items include -.
Source: services1.arcgis.comAmenitiesPlayground surface: bark.
Source: services1.arcgis.comAmenitiesSite amenities include picnic tables, seating, a paddling pool, a pump track.
Source: services1.arcgis.comAmenitiesSite size category: 1 Small.
Source: services1.arcgis.comAmenitiesMorrinsville Recreation Ground hosts Swim Zone Morrinsville (outdoor 50m pool + learners pool + paddling pool, open mid-November to mid-March), 9 tennis courts, 3 senior football fields, 3 junior fields, 3 cricket blocks, a polo field, small skate bowl, and the Morrinsville River Walk along the Waitakaruru Stream.
Source: mpdc.govt.nzDaytime high in °C · % = chance of rain · data from yr.no
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