Suitable for children's play and social gatherings like picnics.
Beckett Park is a unique green space with everything you need for a wonderful outdoor experience.
It is famous for its stone observation tower, maze, extensive playground and indigenous plants.
Public facilities
- Off-lead dog area (read about park rules on our Off-lead dog parks page)
- Playground
- Seating and tables
- Toilets
Playground
Children delight in this wonderland of ramps, swings, slides and monkey bars. It also has an in-ground trampoline and large sandpit with mechanical scoops.
Address
Parring Road, Balwyn, 3103.
The car park is accessible from Parring Road. The venue is 2.2 km from Mont Albert train station.
About the gardens
Beckett Park is next to Maranoa Gardens and is an important revegetation site for indigenous plants. Visitors can walk through patches of grassy woodlands similar to those that existed more than 100 years ago.
There's a wooden maze to lose yourself in and the stone observation tower provides views right across Melbourne as far as Mount Macedon in the north west. This tower is only open when Maranoa Gardens is staffed and not during bad weather.
The park's shaded tables are a great place to enjoy a picnic lunch.
Formerly known as One Tree Hill and originally a grassy woodland, Beckett Park was a traditional site for Empire Day bonfires in the 1940s and 1950s and is home to a war memorial.
