Booran Reserve

Booran Reserve was created from the decommissioned Caulfield Service Reservoir and opened in 2014. It has retained many unique elements of the old reservoir, including the perimeter walls, bluestone plinths and central ‘sluice gate’. The art wall around the perimeter walls tells the story of water in a local context, from the tale of Tiddalik the Frog and indigenous people’s connection to the land through to the development of water infrastructure in Melbourne.

Playground

The play space features a giant, 10-metre-high double dome rope climbing net with slide. This climbing net is the first of its kind in Australia. The net provides climbing challenges to provide expansive views of the play space and surrounding areas from the highest lookout platform. This viewpoint provides a birds-eye view to appreciate the water theme and patterns within the overall park design.

Other unique play equipment includes:

• a giant bird’s nest swing
• dual flying fox with all abilities access seat
• a 5-way swing
• in-ground trampolines
• an oversized mouse wheel
• imaginative sensory play areas and cubbies
• two-tiered sandpit
• water pump with gates flowing into a rock-lined trickle stream

Smaller accessible paths weave and explore through the playground and among shrubs, plantings and running water. The raised sandpit provides wheelchair access and allows the use of the water spiral and the mini sluice gate.

Water play feature

The water play feature is an exciting play experience that is unique to Booran Reserve. It is popular with both young and old, especially on those warm Melbourne days, and includes:

• a surface splash pad
• water jets which spray water upwards in various patterns and at different times.

The water play feature operates the following times

• October to March, 9am to 7.30pm
• April to September, 9am to 5pm

Please note: The water play feature is an unsupervised facility. Every effort is made to ensure it is operational, there is no guarantee it will be running at all times. As it is sometimes closed for water treatment to ensure the health and safety of all users. The above times are based on daylight savings.

Picnic shelters and BBQs

There are two picnic shelters in Booran Reserve that both have access to free BBQ and toilet facilities.

• Picnic Playground shelter – solid roof shelter with two large picnic tables (which can be booked) located next to the playground.
• Water Play shelter – solid roof shelter with two large picnic tables (which can be booked) located directly next the water splash pad area.