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Logan City Council has advised that the dinosaur-themed new playground at Riverdale Park in Meadowbrook is now open and highlights the contribution of students from Loganlea High School’s Year 9 Signature Class for inspiring the ‘Jurassic makeover’.

Students helped decide the theme for the $2.65 million after being invited by Lifestyle Chair and Division 6 Councillor Tony Hall to be ‘Councillors for a Day’ as a school exercise earlier this year.

The new adventure playground includes:

• Two dinosaur-shaped climbing structures
• Statues of baby dinosaurs and eggs
• Swing set topped with a winged dinosaur
• Mini dinosaur rocker
• Fossil digging area
• Colourful play tower with two tunnel slides
• Tee pee, trampoline, climbing net and log steppers

The upgrade works also include a large fitness hub, new shelters, park furniture, two barbecues, a water bubbler and shade sails along with extensive landscaping and new gardens.

Fitness equipment is by a_space who are passionate about building healthier communities having spent years developing and refining outdoor gym systems that are inviting, accessible, durable and safe. a_space support their systems with programs that help individuals of all ages and fitness levels achieve greater wellbeing.

The Riverdale project was funded by the Division 6 Local Infrastructure Program along with Council’s Major Parks and Asset Replacement Programs.

Riverdale Park is at the end of Armstrong Road in Meadowbrook and also features a parkrun course, a duck pond, picnic rotundas, large open lawn spaces and access to the Logan River. 

Image top: Lifestyle Chair and Division 6 Councillor Tony Hall among the 'dinosaur eggs' at the new playground in Riverdale Park at Meadowbrook Credit: City of Logan; Image above: a_space fitness equipment at Riverdale

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