Playgrounds in Melbourne's Eastern Suburbs

Glen Waverley North Reserve has a shaded playground with a double flying fox and table chess. In Mount Waverley, Valley Reserve has rope climbing courses, a tree house and flying foxes. It won a national Parks and Leisure Australia award in 2016. Rowville's Stud Park playground has a farm theme, an accessible carousel and a sandpit with water play. Ruffey Lake Park's Victoria Street Playground reopened in late 2024. It has a giant basket swing, a lookout tower and a bigger sand and water area.

In Croydon, the X Space at Croydon Park has play equipment for all ages, swings and a parkour circuit. Ringwood Lake Park has a creek for water and sand play, a liberty swing and a Changing Places toilet.

In Kew, the Victoria Park playground has a 6-metre rope pyramid, a pump track and an accessible flying fox. Hawthorn's Central Gardens, known as Rocket Park, has a restored 1960s climbing rocket and a water play zone.