Peppermint Park information/photos

[Zamperla]

Did they have Moon Patrol? I love pinball machines. Moreso 1990's era Williams machines.

[GoldCoast_ROG]

Did they have Moon Patrol? I love pinball machines. Moreso 1990's era Williams machines.

Moon Patrol, I remember that. Then I wrote my own version on my Sinclair ZX81 in chunky graphics

[rollercoaster rod]

Off topic I know,but I have a disc here that has all the old arcade games that I play all the time has like 1700+ games from space invades right up past the simpsons and the likes.brings back so much when I get to play it.

[Gazza]

Yeah, ive seen a compliation like that for sale at the post office.

[Zamperla]

I think Rod may have been referring to MAME, which is a brilliant arcade emulator for the PC.

[astro]

peppermint park brings back memories.....the cool putt putt gold course... the missile command arcade machine...and the kids waterslide was a nice touch. CANT BELEIVE ITS GONE

[Elle]

I'm glad I found this site. My aunty and uncle used to manage a motel up in Port Macquarie. I used to go up there often in the holidays and one of the main highlights was visiting peppermint park and fantasy glades. They stopped managing the motel when I was 18 in 2004 and just today I tried to do a google search and came across some of the posts on this site which said peppermint park had closed and was replaced with apartments. What a shame I distinctly remember the slides, the kids slide, putt putt golf course and the pedal carts. I also remember they used to have two sets of carts (smaller ones for kids and bigger ones for teens/adults). There were 2 tracks, one for the small carts and another track which branched off the small track for the bigger kids. The small carts were not allowed on the other track, one time I remember going on the wrong track in the small cart, and a boy told me off.. Haha. I still have a brochure of peppermint park (which would be around 13 years old) which I took from the motel room. I also have a fair few photos of the park and also fantasy glades when I was there last in 1994. I will scan them all for everyone. I have such fond memories of these places, I wish my future children could have experienced the joy and excitement that we all felt.

[sarahjau]

hi all. my uncle used to own a mitsubishi dealership in pm in early 80's. we had family holidays to his place twice a year. i loved pp an fg. i have some photos on photo bucket if any one is interested. http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/sarahjau/

[Elle]

It's been a while since I was here last but I managed to dig up a few photos of Peppermint Park, found some of fantasy glades too. Peppermint Park, 1993 It's such a shame our kids can't experience this too

[DonjaiInLA]

It's such a shame our kids can't experience this too

From your pictures it looks like the park featured pedal bikes (A massive health and safety risk) and a swimming pool... I know most kids would prefer a much more hands on park experience perhaps with roller coasters and a water slide capable of launching uphill

[Gazza]

From your pictures it looks like the park featured pedal bikes (A massive health and safety risk)

Huh?

[Swanny]

Is Peppermint Park the place that had a ride that twisted through some bushland? I'm not quite sure how to describe it. The best description that I can give is that it was somewhat like a monorail, though with smaller cars that were open.

[T-bone]

Swanny, that was Fantasy Glades.

[Thomas g]

They use to hae the ppp pepermint park song on tv in port i remember  all the kids made there own song and it went like this. P p p pepermint park is the place we hate the ducks are all dead and kolalas are fake p p p pepermint  park us so full off crap . I cant remember the rest but im from syd my dad was from port i remember my cousins sing this when the ad came on.

[Brad2912]

Well that was worth the 8 year bump..

welcome,  I guess...

[Jbear612]

Hello, I realise its a few years since this post was originally posted, but thought you'd be interested to know it was my Grandparents Roy & Dorothy, in partnership with friends of theirs, who originally built, managed & ran Peppermint Park. The owners of Fantasy Glades were not at all involved with Peppermint Park. I worked there on weekends & in the school holidays. We even opened the park just for our family to celebrate Christmas Day a few times. MANY MANY MANY fantastic memories of that place.