You can exercise outdoors at the fitness stations located across Canberra in parks and open spaces. The equipment is free to use and includes sit up benches, chin-up bars and balance beams.
Many of the ACT's outdoor exercise spaces are located close to water refill stations. These are wheelchair accessible and equipped with 2 bottle refill nozzles as well as a drinking fountain. Some locations also include a dog drinking bowl.
Locations
A list of locations is available below.
Belconnen
Central Canberra
Gungahlin
Tuggeranong
Woden, Weston Creek and Molonglo
Belconnen
- Belconnen: John Knight memorial park
- Cook: Cook community park
- Holt: Holt community park and Fullston Way neighbourhood park
- Strathnairn: Strathnairn hilltop park
Central Canberra
- Acton: Lake Burley Griffin foreshore (on bike path west of Parkes Way tunnel)
- Campbell: Chowne Street
- Deakin: Denison Street
- Griffith: Light Street neighbourhood park
- Kingston: Honeysett View
- Watson: Inner north playground
- Watson: Maliyan Park
- Yarralumla: Lennox Gardens district park and along Flynn Drive, Mariner Place and Alexandrina Drive
Gungahlin
- Casey: John Crawford Crescent neighbourhood park
- Crace: Crace community recreation park
- Forde: Multiple sites between Forde heritage park and Forde dog park
- Franklin: Franklin community recreation park
- Gungahlin: Yerrabi district park
- Harrison: Eric Mawson Street, Bungle Bungle Crescent and Combo Court
- Jacka: Zubrzycki Crescent
- Moncrieff: Moncrieff community recreation park
- Taylor: Sutherland Crescent community park
Tuggeranong
- Greenway: Tuggeranong Town Park on Bartlet Place and Cowlishaw Street
- Kambah: Boddington Crescent and Summerland Circuit
- Theodore: Lawrence Wackett Crescent
Woden, Weston Creek and Molonglo
- Chifley: Chifley community park
- Coombs: Noffs Crescent and Terry Connolly Street
- Denman Prospect: Ridgeline Park
- Phillip: Eddison District Park
- Rivett: Bangalay Crescent
- Weston: Dillon Close
- Whitlam: Inge King Crescent
- Wright: Cotter Road, Dunphy Street, Lindsay Pryor Street, Peter Cullen Way, Philip Hodgins Street, Swallowtail Road
Sample workouts
Check out one of the sample workouts or watch a video to learn more.
Belconnen
- John Knight Memorial Park workout (PDF 2.4MB)
Gungahlin
- Forde workout (PDF 3MB)
Central Canberra
- Deakin workout (PDF 2.6MB)
- Ainslie workout (PDF 2.7MB)
Woden, Weston Creek and Molonglo
- Chifley workout (PDF 2.6MB)
Tuggeranong
- Theodore workout (PDF 2.2MB)