Edwardes Lake Park

The lake is a part of the Edgar’s Creek catchment, which is a stream of Melbourne’s Yarra River. The lake has very high community and environmental values.

Edwardes Lake is an urban water body of some 85 million litres created by a concrete weir on Edgar’s Creek, as part of the Merri catchment. The lake has an upstream catchment of more than 100 square kilometres and is an important part of regional stormwater management. It is the second largest urban lake in the greater Melbourne metropolitan region.

A suite of outdoor exercise equipment is located around the circuit path at Edwardes Lake Park as part of Council's commitment to get people physically active and making the most of the large network of local parks in Darebin. Edwardes Lake Park is increasingly recognised as an important community hub and the outdoor fitness stations will enhance the park as a place to enjoy fresh air, fun and fitness.

Council will be improving the Leamington Street Skatepark at Edwardes Lake Park. The redevelopment will include an upgrade to the skatepark, new landscaping and furniture.

For more information please visit Policies and Projects.

Council will implement an All Abilities Play Space for Edwardes Lake before the close of the 2012-2013 financial year. This play space will include activities for children of all abilities ranging in ages from infant through to 12 years old.

The concept plan of the proposed new playspace can be downloaded below:

Facilities include a lake walking path, old train engine, playgrounds, bird watching, toilets, barbecue and picnic facilities plus a number of sports facilities on the park boundaries. Edwardes Lake is not suitable for swimming. Edwardes Lake Park also contains an athletics track which is home to several athletics clubs.

For more information on sports and recreation activities visit Leisure and Recreation.

Car parking and access is available in Griffiths Street, Leamington Street and Seaver Grove. The toilet block near the picnic area on East side has a disabled toilet.

The Park and the Lake are named after Mr. Thomas Dyer Edwardes who gave an area of 34 acres (approx. 14 hectares) of land in 1914 to the people of the former Preston Council. Additional land was later bought by the Council to expand the park area and the facilities that exist today.

Edwardes Lake ‘a gift well received’ was a joint project with Work for Dole resulting in a wonderful historical book documenting the early years of Edwardes Lake Park. To download the document visit the link at the bottom of this page.

To further improve water quality in Edwardes Lake after the Edwardes Lake Redevelopment, discussed above, the lake neighbourhood community in partnership with Darebin City Council, Friends of Edwardes Lake and a host of government and private businesses have developed the Edwardes Lake Neighbourhood Environment Improvement Plan (NEIP), for more information regarding the plan visit the Edwardes Lake Neighbourhood Improvement Program link below.

Public Realm Unit
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