Centennial Park — Attraction in Cooma

Centennial Park Location - Massie St, Cooma NSW 2630 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅Toilets ❌Shade Sail ✅Tree Shade ✅Car park ✅Bins at edge of park ✅Picnic Area ❌ BBQ

The major playground for Cooma, it’s very popular, always busy , if your stopping in during snow season the play equipment is usually wet in the early morning till atleast 10am.

The spot is popular with school bus excursions due to its large open grass space and large amount of spaced out picnic tables. Due to this the playground also receives a high amount of play and currently November 2023 is in need of major repairs on a variety of items (which look to be in the process of being fixed).

Playground is semi fenced to Massie Street which it is closet too, and has a large tree line around the entire park.

Play equipment

• two swing sets 2 standard seats 2 standard seats and 2 toddler bucket seats ⚠️ one swing broken November 2023 • pendulum swing 360 degrees of swing with spider nest swing ⚠️ broken November 2023

• Stand-alone car wall game • Stand-alone spinning puzzle wall game • Stand-alone squeeze through bars

• stepping plastic pods and balance beam

• musical plastic drums and speaking pipes (⚠️working speaking pipes but one has been pushed out of place)

• small play structure small rope wall stairs Tunnel Xylophone wall game Steering wheel and telescope on step up platform Small plastic slide

• floor level carousel

• giant play structure ⚠️ one slide (the biggest) is currently sealed off for repairs . Noughts and crosses , xylophone wall and shop window on ground floor. Stair entry and first slide is a small plastic slide Platform steps and rope floors Xylophone pipe wall inside Tunnel slide Spiral tunnel slide More stairs and platforms to the top with slide More wall games throughout structure.

Definitely a nice park but a bit chaotic when a bus load or two full of students arrived, great to see it being used soooooo much though! Always busy every time...

Centennial Park brings back memories when I go there and play at the playground in the 1960s, going to the Snowy Mountains 🏔.

There is Mosaic Time ⏲️ Walk in front of the main street. Was a community project in Centennial Park. The Cooma-Monaro Time Walk to Make Bicentennial Year of 1988, designed by Cooma College of TAFE and the Cooma-Monaro Historical Society.

In 1959, the park was redesigned, the International Avenue of Flags and the Music 🎶 Shell 🐚 and other improvements. Opened on the 17 th of October 1959, 10 th anniversary of establishment of the Snowy Mountains 🏔 Hydro-electric Authority.

The Flags Poles represent the 27 nationalities of people working on the scheme at the Snowy Mountains 🏔.

Lands is traditional of the Ngarigo people, as the area now known as Cooma.

Explored by Captain J.M. Currie in 1823. First surveyed in 1840 and was gazetted in 1849, Cooma was proclaimed a municipality in 1879. The railway 🛤 was extended and came from Royalla to Cooma in 1889. A hundred years later, the line closed to passenger traffic.

Population of Cooma, 6,742 in 2016 census.

Location: 397km (247mi) SW of Sydney 116 km (72mi) S of Canberra 61 km (38mi ) ENE of Jindabyne 112 km...

Centennial Park, located on Sharp St in the middle of Cooma, it is a wonderful place to pull up and stretch the legs while on the road to the Snowy Mountains...

The park has some very interesting things to see, like the Banjo Paterson and The Shearer tributes, and also the Avenue of Flags and beautiful Mosaic walls at the entrance to the park!

Centennial Park is a large grasses area with some table seating available along with a great little playground for the kids...

There are quite a few street parking spaces available, although Cooma can get very busy at times, which makes finding a spot a little difficult...

There is a public toilet block...