Discover Garfield

Garfield offers several starting points for planning a trip: swimming and sports, a nature play area, shopping along Main Street and a former cinema building with a story to tell. For a trip with children, the toddler pool and playground provide specific activities; local history and shopping offer a different focus.

Swimming, sports and play

Garfield Outdoor Pool has a 33-metre outdoor pool, a program pool and a toddler pool. The three types of pools give the swimming facilities a clear structure. For planning with children, the toddler pool is a specific point of reference; the outdoor pool and program pool add other kinds of swimming to the mix.

The Garfield Recreation Reserve on Beswick Street offers a different combination. It has lawn bowls, tennis courts, a swimming pool, exercise equipment and a skate park. Unlike the Outdoor Pool, which is described in terms of three types of pools, the reserve combines swimming with other sports and physical activities in one place. This distinction is useful when planning your day: you can weigh up whether to focus on swimming or include several types of activity.

The playground at Greenland Court Reserve adds a nature play area with balancing and stepping features to the options. These features put movement and exploration at the centre. After renovation work was completed, the playground reopened to the community. In terms of planning your day, this offers a different focus from the pools: nature play and movement take centre stage here. If you are travelling with children, you can include this kind of play as a separate option when choosing activities.

Main Street: shopping and local history

Garfield Picture Theatre is on Main Street in Garfield. Built in 1924, it is one of the few surviving former cinema buildings in Cardinia Shire. The year it was built places its construction in time; its status as one of the few surviving former cinemas makes its building history a tangible part of local history. If you are interested in architecture and history, you will find a specific historical point of reference here, as well as a change of pace from the options for swimming, sports and play.

Along Main Street, visitors can explore handmade gifts, homewares and boutique clothing. Picture Theatre is also on Main Street. Shopping and local history can therefore be included in your plans as different interests, with the same street as a point of reference for both.

Garfield as a place to stay

You can use these interests as a starting point when choosing accommodation: a stay focused on swimming calls for different considerations than a schedule built around sports, the playground or a visit to Main Street. The things to do in Garfield offer specific questions to consider when planning: what kind of physical activity would you like to include, and does local history matter to you?

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