Pizzey Park at Miami is one of the biggest and busiest parks on the Gold Coast, sprawling across about sixty hectares with four separate children’s playgrounds, so there is something for toddlers through to teenagers in the one spot.

Its standout draws are for the wheels crowd: an asphalt pump track that is the largest in Australia at over two thousand square metres, and a skate park with more than four and a half thousand square metres of skateable surface built for skateboards, bikes, scooters and skates.

With lakeside walking and cycling tracks, an off-leash dog area and the aquatic centre alongside, it works well as a half-day outing rather than a quick stop.