Playground, Bowker Oval

If you’ve got a group to entertain, this is probably your best bet in North Brighton. The oval is genuinely big — not just “parks are big” big, but actually enough space that multiple games can happen simultaneously without anyone getting in each other’s way. Footies, cricket, running kids in every direction — it handles all of it. Not the flashiest spot around, but that open grass does exactly what it needs to do.