Public BBQ areas in Canberra
228 public barbecues are mapped in Canberra. 153 of them sit in 65 named parks — here they are, biggest first.
A further 75 are mapped outside any named park — along foreshores, on reserves and in places OpenStreetMap has not named. They are counted in the total above but cannot be listed by name.
Australian park barbecues are almost always free electric hotplates on a stand, worked by a push button that runs the plate for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time. You bring food, oil and something to scrape with; you bring no fuel at all.
The plate is shared and it is rarely clean. Regulars arrive with a scraper and a bottle of oil, heat the plate empty for five minutes, scrape it down and only then start cooking — which is also the fastest way to avoid whatever the last group cooked.
Weekend mornings go early at the popular reserves. Most councils do not take bookings for individual plates, so a table near one is first come, first served.
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Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Facilities change; check locally before you plan a meal around one. openstreetmap.org/copyright · 228 of them are mapped in OpenStreetMap as of 2026-08-23.