Savigny Sports Ground, Open Access

All the village sports facilities, openly accessible

In the centre of Savigny, between the Place du Forum, the school complex and the route de Mollie-Margot, the commune has brought all its outdoor sports facilities together on a single site. What makes it a good address for families is that everything here is openly accessible: no club to join, no membership fee, no booking. You turn up and you play. The sports guide for the Lausanne region indeed lists all these facilities among the outdoor infrastructures open to everyone.

What your children will discover

There is something for every taste and every age. The skatepark welcomes scooters, roller skates and boards. The multisports court, with a tartan surface, allows basketball, badminton or volleyball. The football pitch is synthetic grass, so playable even after rain, and a handball goal completes the equipment. On the athletics side, a two-lane tartan sprint track and two long-jump pits let children time themselves, jump and measure. An outdoor table tennis table rounds it all off.

What you do there and the atmosphere on site

This is the meeting point for the village children and teenagers at the end of the day and at weekends. The atmosphere is that of a neighbourhood ground: people mix, lend each other a ball, take a few turns of the skatepark. For a family with children of different ages it is a windfall, because the Forum playground is right next door: the youngest climb the towers while the older ones play basketball, and everyone stays in the same field of view. A defibrillator has been installed outside the sports hall.

Before you go

• Recommended age: from about 6 for the sports facilities; younger children have the Forum playground right next door
• Duration: an hour to half a day
• Price: free, municipal facilities with open access
• Booking: none for the outdoor facilities
• Pushchair access: level site in the village centre
• Transport: CarPostal lines 360 and 365 from Lausanne-Sallaz (m2 metro), Savigny, Centre stop
• What to bring: a ball, rackets or a scooter depending on the plan, a helmet and pads for the skatepark, a water bottle
• Best season: spring to autumn; the synthetic grass and the tartan stay playable in damp weather

Parents' tips

• Bring your own gear: balls, badminton rackets and table tennis balls are not provided on site.
• Helmet and pads for the skatepark, especially for the first attempts on a scooter.
• On Wednesday afternoons and at the end of the day the site is very busy with the village youngsters: come in the morning with young children.
• Combine it with the Forum playground, a few dozen metres away, to keep children of different ages busy.
• The pitches are shared and unsupervised: go over the sharing rules before letting the children loose.

Useful information

• Address: Savigny sports ground, route de Mollie-Margot, Place du Forum area, 1073 Savigny (Vaud)
• Opening hours: open access, outside use by schools and local clubs
• Price: free
• On site: a skatepark, a multisports court (basketball, badminton, volleyball), a synthetic football pitch, an athletics track, two long-jump pits, an outdoor table tennis table, a defibrillator outside the sports hall
• Getting there: Savigny, Centre stop (CarPostal 360 and 365), parking spaces around the Place du Forum

Why we recommend it

Because bringing together a skatepark, a multisports court, a synthetic football pitch, an athletics track and a table tennis table on one free site with no booking is rare for a commune of this size. For an afternoon of physical activity as a family, with no budget and no registration, it is hard to do better in the area, all the more so as the village playground adjoins the pitches.

In a nutshell

A skatepark, a multisports court, synthetic football, an athletics track and table tennis, all free and openly accessible in the centre of Savigny, with the Forum playground right next door.

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