Mount Pleasant Park
🏟 Playground & park · Sharrow, Sheffield
Mount Pleasant Park
A Sharrow park home to the free Highfield Adventure Playground, with a refurbished playground, scoot track, MUGA and a new café and toilets.
🕑 Opening & entry
🌱 Open space, accessible year-round. · Free · No booking needed
About Mount Pleasant Park
Mount Pleasant Park is a public park in Sharrow, off Abbeydale Road in Sheffield, managed by Sheffield City Council and worked on with Sharrow Community Forum. It is best known as the home of the Highfield Adventure Playground, which sits on the Abbeydale Road side of the park just below Sharrow Primary School. For families, the free adventure playground offers a tunnel slide, zip wire and sandpit, with water pumps for wet and muddy play, and indoors there are craft activities, pool and table tennis, plus a special floor area just for younger children — all free to use. Starting in 2024, the council and Sharrow Community Forum delivered a £430,000 package of capital improvements to the park's playground, scoot track and multi-use games area (MUGA). The Highfield Adventure Playground building was refurbished with Youth Investment Funding, creating a new kiosk/café and public toilets, and the new ADVENTURES building opened in July 2025. Together these facilities give children of different ages a well-equipped, supervised place to play close to the city. Free to visit year-round, Mount Pleasant Park is a valued community green space in the Sharrow and Highfield area of Sheffield.
⭐ What makes this place special
- Highfield Adventure Playground (ADVENTURES building)
- Scoot track
- Multi-use games area (MUGA)
- Kiosk/café
- Public toilets
🏞 Facilities
- Free entry
- Toilets on site
- Café / refreshments
🧒 Ages & play
- Refurbished children's playground
- Tunnel slide
- Zip wire
- Sandpit
- Water pumps for wet and muddy play
📍 Nearby places to play
- Heeley People's Park · approx 0.3 miles · Heeley
- Norfolk Heritage Park · approx 0.8 miles · Norfolk Park
- Pound's Park · approx 0.8 miles · City Centre
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❓ Frequently asked questions
Is Mount Pleasant Park free?
Yes. The park and the Highfield Adventure Playground are free, and the park is managed by Sheffield City Council.
What's in the playground?
A refurbished playground plus the Highfield Adventure Playground with a tunnel slide, zip wire, sandpit and water pumps for wet and muddy play, with indoor craft, pool and table tennis.
Are there toilets and a café?
Yes. A new kiosk/café and public toilets opened with the ADVENTURES building in July 2025.
Where is the park?
On Crowther Place in Sharrow, off Abbeydale Road, just below Sharrow Primary School, postcode S7 1BJ.
What else was improved?
A £430,000 programme upgraded the playground, scoot track and multi-use games area, with the adventure playground building refurbished.