Artarmon: Parks, Playgrounds and Paths

If you’re looking for a hotel in Artarmon, local green spaces and paths may be a factor in your choice. Artarmon Reserve offers specific recreational facilities; the routes described differ in their starting and ending points. There are also two playgrounds with named facilities and bushland with a clearly described location. This makes it easier to plan your stay around the places you’d like to visit in Artarmon.

Artarmon Reserve: Facilities and directions

Artarmon Reserve has picnic shelters, an accessible drinking fountain, and both natural and built shade. Facilities may change over time, so check local information in advance if any of these features are important for your visit. From the entrance to Artarmon Reserve, Artarmon Station is 250 m away and a taxi rank is 120 m away. These distances are measured from the entrance and may change if entrances or facilities are altered. This provides two specific reference points for finding your way, both measured from the park entrance.

Paths with different start and end points

The Artarmon Link Path, also known as Cordia Way, is a wide, gently undulating path for pedestrians and cyclists, running from Shepherd Road to Artarmon Reserve. Both its reference points and intended uses are specified. Its described route and wide, gently undulating character can help you assess it.

The Artarmon to Middle Harbour Track starts at Artarmon Railway Station and runs through Artarmon Reserve, Bicentennial Park and Flat Rock Gully Reserve to Middle Harbour. The difference from the Link Path is clear from their start and end points: the track starts at the station and ends at Middle Harbour, while the Link Path runs from Shepherd Road to Artarmon Reserve. This lets you distinguish the two route descriptions by the places you’d like to include in your plans.

Playgrounds at Artarmon Reserve and Thomson Park

Facilities at the playground in Artarmon Reserve include a flying fox, large embankment slides, a roundabout, climbing structures, a sand area, trampolines and swings, including a basket swing. The fenced playground in Thomson Park has a basket swing, a wide embankment slide, a flying fox, a roundabout, talking tubes and a climbing structure. The descriptions highlight different features: the sand area and trampolines are listed for Artarmon Reserve, while the fence and talking tubes are mentioned for Thomson Park. If you’re planning to use a specific piece of equipment, check local information, as playground facilities may be temporarily changed.

Bushland and ecological connections

The 6.9-hectare area of Artarmon Reserve is east of the railway line and south of Burra Road in Artarmon. It includes the headwaters of a tributary of Flat Rock Creek and has a significant area of natural bushland. Its size, the two named landmarks and its connection to the headwaters provide a specific geographic context for this natural area.

Artarmon Park is managed as part of a system of ecological connections that forms a wildlife corridor between the Lane Cove River and Middle Harbour. As a result, ecological connections are also part of Artarmon’s green spaces, alongside the park facilities described above.

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