Adelaide Park & Gardens

Adelaide is often referred to as a 'city within a park' because it is completely surrounded by lawn space.

The influential urban pattern of Adelaide - Australia's first planned city - has been granted Australia's highest legacy honour with its inclusion on the National Heritage List. The record recognises the Adelaide Park Lands and city architecture as an urban masterpiece that influenced the scheming of other downtown in Australia and overseas.

Designed in 1837 by Colonel William Light as an intergral constituent of his chart for the City of Adelaide, the Adelaide Park Lands today comprise nearly 900 hectares, or around 45 per cent of the city, developing a significant facet of the city’s sameness and appeal. They include gardens and ancient gums, playing land and 19th century olive groves, historic sites and contemporary art, ceremonial role and informal native plantings, appreciated by locals and guest alike.

Each park has its own character. There are formal rose gardens, wide spaces with grand native and exotic trees, playgrounds and lakes, and sporting land for football and cricket to petanque and archery. There are treads trails, quiet spaces and assembly function throughout this lawn network. Head to these parks and squares to relax, anecdote back on the grass, or watch the residue of the city activity by:

Elder Park
One of Adelaide's mass popular venues, where you tins hire paddleboats and bicycles. Across the outpouring are the beautiful gardens of Pinky Flat, the Memorial Drive Tennis Complex and Adelaide Oval. The park reach down to the River Torrens beside the Festival Centre.

Rymill Park
Hire a rowboat for a stint on the lake or stretch out on a blanket and watch the ducks at Rymill Park. You'll also discovery large shady trees, a rose garden, barbecue facilities, a playground and a booths helping great coffee. Also on the eastern edge of the city centre, Rymill Park is bordered by Dequetteville Terrace, Rundle Road, Hutt Street and Bartels Road.

Botanic Park
This is one of Adelaide's best-loved parks, and a sensational venue for Adelaide's annual international singing carnival WOMADelaide. It's situated between the Adelaide Botanic Garden and the Adelaide Zoo and you tins enter from Hackney Road into Plane Tree Drive, which forms a drive-through bill around the park. There is on-site parking, wealth of tint trees and an interpretive trail.

Peace Park
One park you bravery discovery very mixing is Peace Park, incorporating the much-revered Cross of Sacrifice, the Prince Henry Gardens, Ester Lipman Gardens, and the Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens. It's located just across the River Torrens where Sir Edwin Smith Avenue and War Memorial Drive converge with King William Road.

Adelaide-Himeji Garden
This beautiful Japanese backyard is a walled oasis of tranquility and tranquillity. Himeji combination two classic Japanese styles, the lake and hill backyard and the dry garden, and celebrates Adelaide's sister-city relation with the ancient Japanese city of Himeji. At the corners Glen Osmond Road, South Terrace and Hutt Road.

Veale Gardens
Situated between Sir Lewis Cohen Avenue and Peacock Road, Veale Gardens have lots interesting features including a rose backyard of more than 50 assortment (fronting onto South Terrace) and a beautiful little cataracts spilling into a stream frequented by families of ducks. You'll discover a conservatory, a image of Pan by Adelaide inventor John Dowie, and grassy mounds covered by groves of trees and shrubs. The Pavilion On The Park Restaurant is at the eastern period of the gardens.

River Torrens Linear Park
This is the largest hills-to-coast park in Australia and you tins either walk or cycle on a bitumen course along the slope of the River Torrens from the city, west to the slope at Henley Beach or north east to the Tea Tree Plaza interchange. Extensive plantings of trees and bush create a feel of creature well away from civilisation. You tins walk shot passage by commencement on one aspect of the river, passing over one of lots footbridges and returning on the other. A good position to start is from Elder Park in front of the Festival Theatre.



Victoria Park
Home to the internationally acclaimed engine sports path course for the Clipsal 500 Adelaide, Victoria Park also comprises the Victoria Park Racecourse, a bicycle path, a sweat track, treads route and an old olive grove on the East Terrace side. The trees in this park mass with native birds, including Eastern Rosellas and Rainbow Lorikeets. A walk along East Terrace is value the attempt to admire the beautifully restored stately homes. Victoria Park is framed by Fullarton Road, Wakefield Road and East Terrace on the eastern periphery of the city.

Bonython Park
A fabulous, meandering park alongside the Torrens River, with lake for pattern boats, two playgrounds, bike path, cosmos footprints and more. Major events including the annual Schutzenfest are held here. On situation kissing provides easy entry to barbecue facilities, a booths and more.

Wirranendi
Bounded by West Terrace, Anzac Highway and Sir Donald Bradman Drive, Wirranendi provides a fascinating city experience. An interpretive treads path (allow 30 to 45 minutes) embraces a offspring urban woods of 3,000 trees, magnificent specimens of River Red Gum, a Mallee Box woodland, attractive native grasses, a outback tucker path and a wetland.