Best Family Activities in Geelong: the Waterfront, GMHBA Stadium Tours and Adventure Parks

Geelong offers an accessible and growing range of family-friendly activities that benefit from its position on Corio Bay with a renovated waterfront precinct and proximity to the Surf Coast and Bellarine Peninsula for regional day trips. The Geelong Waterfront precinct on Eastern Beach has the Eastern Beach Bathing Pavilion with a beautifully restored 1930s swimming enclosure in the bay, the Carousel (a restored 1892 steam-driven carousel under a heritage shelter at Steampacket Gardens), the Bay City Roller skating attraction and the KidsZone water play area, creating a concentrated family activity zone on the bayfront. The National Wool Museum at Moorabool Street is one of Australia's best industrial heritage museums and has interactive displays about the wool industry and Geelong's history. GMHBA Stadium offers stadium tours for AFL and general visitors that are popular with sport-loving families. Adventure Park on Bellarine Highway in Wallington, 20 minutes south, is Geelong's major water and adventure theme park, open during summer. The Bellarine Peninsula's Point Lonsdale and Queenscliff are accessible in 30-40 minutes south and offer historic lighthouse visits, safe bay swimming and the Queenscliff-Sorrento ferry crossing to the Mornington Peninsula. Puffing Billy steam railway's eastern station at Gembrook is 1 hour from Geelong for the classic heritage steam experience.