{Edinburgh} Fairmilehead Park Playground
We did a lot of day trips during the Easter holidays. I had promised by boys a ‘down day’ in between day trips, except I find it hard to just sit around and relax doing nothing, so my idea of a down day was to jump on a bus and visit a new playground. My eldest could not be convinced to come along, but my 8 yr old was tempted in the end.
Fairmilehead Park is in the south of Edinburgh, and it took us less than 20 minutes to get there from our house, including a 10 minute bus ride. The decent sized park includes a fairly new playground, that was rebuilt in 2011, with play equipment for toddlers, juniors and teenagers.
There’s a large climbing net structure and slide, a zip line, swings, and a few other pieces of play equipment (see gallery and details below). Outside of the playground, within the park, there’s also some further fitness/ play equipment for older children, as well as a basketball hoop and football goal posts.
My son gave this playground a thumbs up rating – it had a good variety of play equipment for different ages (he especially liked the big climbing net and slide), and was fairly easy to get to from our house.
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Playground Stats
Name: Fairmilehead Park
Location: South Edinburgh
Map coordinates: 55.9067291,-3.2142389
Best for: Toddlers, Juniors, Teenagers
Ground cover: Wood chips
Rating: Thumbs up
Last visited: 14 April 2023
Play Equipment
- Large pyramid with climbing nets and slide
- Swings
- Toddler swings
- Basket swing
- Rotating net roundabout
- Wobble board
- Climbing wall
- Zip line
Facilities
- Benches
- Picnic table
- Large grassed area for playing
- Fitness equipment (in the park)
- Basketball hoop
- Goal posts for football
How to get there
The closest bus stop is Pentland View on X road (Lothian Buses 11 & 15, and Houston Coaches 101 & 102). From there it’s around a 5 minute walk to the playground. Go down Pentland View, and then turn left in to Colmestone Gate. It looks like you are walking in to a dead end residential street, but right at the end there’s a path between the last two houses that leads through a wooded area to the park. Just follow that path until you see the playground.
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