Looking at Yew Tee Park from the main road, you would be forgiven for thinking that the park is simply a green hillock. While that is true, if you venture in to explore, you will come across the Yew Tee Park playground, a structure that has been built into the hillside.
Yew Tee Park: A Corner Park
Yew Tee is small estate and it is easy to make your way across the entirety of Yew Tee, east to west, within 30 to 40 minutes. Tucked away in a corner of Yew Tee, bounded by Choa Chu Kang North 6 and Choa Chu Kang Way is Yew Tee Park.
The park has a square footprint and looking at it from the main road, you would think it is mainly a grassy knoll.
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That assumption isn’t wrong. In fact, you can make the climb along footpaths up to the very top of the hill where you will find an open space with a pavilion.
Pay a visit early in the morning and you are likely to find residents exercising at this vantage point, enjoying the morning air while getting in a bit of a workout.
The hillside park has its charms and we can even see if as a nice spot for a mid-autumn festival lantern walk.
Yew Tee Park Playground: Hillside Slide
Make your way over to the side of the hill facing Block 602 and you will find the Yew Tee Park Playground.
There are two parts to this playground.
One part consists of a play structure located on ground level. This purple and blue playground has climbing nets along with colourful rings that kids can climb through to reach the sheltered platform where a slide awaits.
The second part of the Yew Tee Park playground is slightly more impressive.
A slide covered in green camouflage stretches down from the hillside. The camouflage pattern is a reminder that we are not too far away from the army camps on the other side of Choa Chu Kang Way.
To get to the slide, you will first need to scale the towers that are located on the terrace above.
There are two towers and two ways to enter. However, when we were there, we found that base of the first tower had a lot of flies around it. Therefore, we headed to second tower that was further in.
To get between the towers, there was a fun swinging bridge rope obstacle, similar to those that you may find at an indoor playground. However, this one was outdoor and suspended much higher up.
When we arrived at the tower which was connected to the slide, we were all ready to launch ourselves downwards.
In case you are worried that the slide would be too fast for kids, there is no need to worry. The slide was rather slow because of the friction of the slide. However, it was fun going down such a long slide that stretched all the way from the upper terrace to the bottom of the hill.
Yew Tee Park and its playground offer a bit of fun for kids and it is nice and small enough for younger ones to take a tramp and explore.
Yew Tee Park
Where: Corner of Choa Chu Kang Way and Choa Chu Kang North 6.
