The city charges for a lot, and then hands you 9 ocean pools, 824 named parks, 140 public BBQs and 417 playgrounds for nothing. This is that half of inner Sydney, pulled from the same map data as everything else here — and where the map knows a place by name, it is named below; where it only knows there are four of them in a suburb, it says that instead of inventing a list.
9 of Sydney's 18 ocean pools and harbour baths take no money at the gate — the rock pools on the coast walk are council-run and simply open.
All of them, with walking times and which ones charge: ocean pools and harbour baths.
32 of the 162 mapped viewpoints carry a name — the rest are on the map as markers, unnamed by whoever surveyed them.
140 free electric BBQs across 56 suburbs. Only two of them have a name in the data, so here they are by suburb — switch the ♨️ layer on the map to find the one in a particular park.
417 of them across 99 suburbs — the suburbs with the most are the ones with the big parks rather than the most children.
Free at the gate is not free to reach: most of the coastal pools want a bus, and the harbour lookouts want a ferry. Council facilities close for maintenance without warning, BBQs run on a timed button that someone has usually just pressed, and an off-leash area is off-leash only in the hours signposted at its gate. Tennis courts are deliberately absent from this page — almost all of them are booked and paid for, whatever the map says about the net.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).