Bayview Park, Sydney: Parramatta River swimming baths & playground
The main reason to visit Bayview Park, Sydney, is to go swimming in the Parramatta River from the Bayview Park Baths.
Bayview Park in Concord, Sydney, is an underrated hangout on the Parramatta River. Most tourists don’t know it exists, so locals pretty much have it to themselves.
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Where is Bayview Park?
This Concord riverside park is in a sheltered bay of the Parramatta River, and looks out towards Abbotsford. There is a wharf here, but the ferry services have long been decommissioned.
So why would any tourists bother to make the journey out to Bayview Park? Well, those with children will probably get good use out of the Bayview Park playground.
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Bayview Park Baths
Everyone else, though, is more likely to be interested in the newly reopened Bayview Park Baths. This new river swimming area is a hark back to the past. The previous swimming enclosure at Bayview Park was closed in the 1960s due to the level of pollution in the Parramatta River. However, the river is much cleaner these days.
Therefore, the project to bring a swimming enclosure back to Bayview Park began, and the official reopening of the Bayview Park Baths was on November 11, 2022.
The swimming site on this river beach is managed by the City of Canada Bay, and there are shark nets in place to protect swimmers.
Other in-the-know Sydney parks worth visiting include the Lizard Log Park in Abbotsbury and Nurragingy Reserve in Doonside.
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