Pacific Park
Matavai Street, Mount Maunganui 3116
Why these ages?
Universal-access design with sandpit including talking tubes and digger, high-backed accessible swing, basket swings, embankment slide, wheelchair-friendly carousel and accessible see-saw — every piece thought through for young and disabled users. Artificial safety surfacing throughout and five shade sails cover most equipment. Suburban Matavai Street with a wheels track for scooters (part of the playground design rather than a skate risk). No open water body adjacent despite the Mt Maunganui setting.
Access notes
The description names a wheelchair accessible carousel, an accessible see saw, and artificial safety surfacing throughout, with pathways connecting Matavai Street and Bedford Place into the site. No accessible parking or accessible toilet is confirmed, only on street parking and general public toilets nearby.
What's here
Pacific Park in Mount Maunganui is built around an accessible mountain, or maunga, structure that nods to the nearby Mauao, with a wide slide, climbing ropes and balancing rocks at its centre. The whole site leans toward universal access, from an accessible see saw and a wheelchair friendly carousel to a high backed accessible swing.
Equipment
Access and Inclusion
Good to know
HistoryOpened within the last 5 years (as of the McNoe 2026 survey).
Source: services1.arcgis.comOn siteEquipment includes see-saw (accessible), high backed swing (accessible), swings, sand play (including digger), slide, climbing net, embankment slide, basket swing.
Source: services1.arcgis.comOn siteJunior-suitable items include infant swing, embankment slide (suitable for young child with assistance), inground carousel, sand play (including digger), basket swing.
Source: services1.arcgis.comOn siteSpecialised equipment: a digger toy.
Source: services1.arcgis.comAmenitiesPlayground surface: artificial.
Source: services1.arcgis.comAmenitiesSite amenities include picnic tables, seating.
Source: services1.arcgis.comAmenitiesSite size category: 2 Medium.
Source: services1.arcgis.comAccessAccessibility features: high back swing.
Source: services1.arcgis.comHandy to knowShade at midday in summer: Five shade sails provide good shade for play equipment. No shade for picnic tables or seating.
Source: services1.arcgis.comHandy to knowParking: on street parking.
Source: services1.arcgis.com
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