Walsall Arboretum
Outdoor Play & Adventure Playgrounds · Walsall, Birmingham & Black Country
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🌳 Outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16🆓 Free entrySeasonal openingSchool holiday activitiesWater play🛝 PlaygroundGardens🐐 Animals
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
- Picnic area
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
- SEN friendly
There are free car parks at the Arboretum extension on Broadway North and The Crescent. Paid parking sites are near the town centre entrances. 3 blue badge bays at the visitor centre (entrance from Arboretum Road, WS1 2QH).
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
A 170-acre park in Walsall town centre that opened in 1874, with Hatherton Lake at its heart. The grounds contain over 10,000 different species of trees and shrubs, gardens, and green spaces. A children's play area includes a splash pad (open weekends, school holidays and bank holidays until the end of August 2026), a wheelchair-accessible roundabout and an accessible nest swing. Other facilities include a skate park, multi-use games area, outdoor fitness equipment, fishing lake, bowling greens, cricket pitch, tennis courts and football pitches. Hard tarmac paths throughout are at least 1100mm wide, with many between 1500 and 2000mm wide. The visitor centre and pavilion have wheelchair-accessible facilities.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Wristband for lost childrenWrite your number on it before you go in.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Nappy sacks
- Reusable cutlery
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
- Pram rain cover
- Pram clip-on fan
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
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