Children playing in the sand pit at Pirrama Park Playground
Photograph: James Horan/Destination NSW

Pirrama Park Playground

  • Kids | Playgrounds
  • Pyrmont
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Time Out says

Once little eyeballs spot this park’s giant sandpit, they won't want to leave. Pirrama means ‘rocking stone’ in Gadigal, and the 1.8 hectare park in Pyrmont has cafés, free barbecues, public toilets, and covered picnic areas that all overlook the harbour waters. It also has an excellent playground with a sandpit so large it’s like a mini fossil-excavation site. Toddlers scrape away at the sand, digging for buried treasure – and parents are busy keeping it out of their mouths/ears. But the true gem of this waterside playground is the wide-open pathway of water fountains – soaking all the rudey nudey kidlets running around and screaming at the top of their lungs. It’s heaps of fun in the summer (just remember to bring a change of clothes). If your little one doesn’t love to get wet, there are two baby swings, a small slide, and spinning-gravitational-rotators that are fun to cling onto. Bigger kids (and adults) can clamber over the giant net, or simply run off steam around the expansive grassed park. Careful: it’s not fenced, and there’s lots of access points to the water.

Details

Address
22
Pirrama Rd
Pyrmont
Sydney
2009

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Pyrmont Festival

Crisp autumn days are made for drinking in gorgeous Sydney harbour views while you drink a glass of wine, don’t you think? And that’s exactly what you'll be doing at the 2026 Pyrmont Festival. Returning to Pirrama Park on May 23-24 for its 14th year, this much-loved free festival transforms the waterfront into a lively community celebration of food, wine and fun. What can you expect? How about more than 30 wineries, breweries and distilleries from across NSW giving Sydneysiders the chance to sip and sample their way through regions like the Hunter Valley, Orange, Mudgee and the South Coast without leaving the city. Expect standout pours from Petersons Wines, Hungerford Hill, Tamburlaine Organic Wines, Cuppit's Estate, Hungerford Hill, Tulloch Wines and Robert Stein, alongside craft brews from White Bay Beer Co and spirits from Finders Distillery. And the food truck line-up is just as tempting. Feast on everything from paella by Sofrito Paella and pillowy pasta from The Gnocchi Way to woodfired sandwiches from Eat Ozzo (one of our Time Out Food & Drink Award nominees) and sweet treats from the iconic Famous Berry Donut Van. There’ll also be artisan produce stalls selling cheeses, salami, honey, olives, chocolates and other gourmet goodies to take home. Pyrmont Festival keeps the atmosphere buzzing with live music across two stages, art and health workshops, plus kids’ entertainment in the form of a bouncy castle, face painting and even mini golf. Best of all, it’s...
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