Grays Beach Sand Pit Play Area

If you’re after a proper dig-around-in-the-sand kind of afternoon, this place delivers. The sandbox is genuinely spacious — clean sand, not the grim grey stuff you find at half the parks round here — and the water feature keeps kids entertained way longer than you’d expect. There are tunnels and a maze thrown in too, so it works for a range of ages without anyone getting bored five minutes in. Shade trees help on warmer days, benches are dotted around sensibly for parents, and parking nearby means you’re not lugging everything half a mile. The open grass field gives older kids room to run while the little ones do their thing in the sand.