The Adelaide Park Lands aren’t just green space – they’re a vital part of how students, workers and recreational cyclists get around our city.
Kadaltilla / Adelaide Park Lands Authority says the Park Lands provide around 59 kilometres of continuous walking and cycling paths, connecting major precincts through routes including the Adelaide Park Lands Trail and River Torrens Linear Park.
And there’s an economic benefit too. Walking and cycling in the Park Lands generates an estimated $196 million in annual economic value, through direct health, transport and environmental benefits.
As Bike Adelaide Chair David Elliott writes, safe, connected Park Lands paths are critical to cycling in Adelaide – and to keeping our city moving.
It took a Federal Court case to find out what the State Government is actually planning for John E. Brown Park.
A two-storey driving range, 108 car parks, up to 400 metres of netting, an 18-hole mini-golf course, retail facilities, new roads, water tanks and other infrastructure — all on public Park Lands.
These are significant changes, yet despite repeated questions, the community has had no meaningful opportunity to see or comment on the plans.
Why did it take a court case for South Australians to find out what is being proposed for their Park Lands?
“MotoGP has not raced on a street circuit since 1982, and the reason for that was that riders kept dying.” As Adelaide plans to bring MotoGP back onto city streets, safety concerns could have profound consequences for the surrounding Park Lands.
For 16-year-old Sophie, the Adelaide Park Lands are more than a park — they’re her backyard, her running track and part of her home.
For almost a decade, Trees for Life’s Regenerate program has been bringing people together in the Adelaide Park Lands through Bushcare, nature, culture and connection.
We talk with Tricia Curtis about how caring for nature can also mean caring for ourselves—and why the Park Lands are such an important place for community wellbeing.
The City Council is undertaking a long-overdue revision of its “Community Land Management Plan” for your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands. It’s released, for community consultation, a draft of the "General Provisions" (the over-arching framework).
The document includes a proposed "dog management map" which indicates areas where dogs would be permitted either on-lead or off-lead.
The State Government has unveiled the full scope of its plans to build over an enormous part of your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands.
The scale of the Park Lands assault is unprecedented. A vast area of Park 27 would disappear under the Government's plans to build a new Women's and Children's Hospital, multi-storey car park and associated new roads on the Park Lands that you love.
A commemorative public artwork, dedicated to those affected by domestic violence, is one step closer to being created in your Adelaide Park Lands.
The Place of Courage project, backed by the non-profit Spirit of Woman organisation is expected to be built in Bonython Park / Tulya Wardli (Park 27) next to the model boat pond.
The State Government's recently-foreshadowed attacks on three Park Lands sites has raised doubts about its current push to have Adelaide declared a National Park City.
The State Government is like the fabled pushmi-pullyu in Doctor Doolittle, with two heads pointing in opposite directions. Its spin doesn't match its actions.
The City of Adelaide’s Biodiversity team and Rotary Adelaide Light came together on the last weekend of June, to complete a planting in Gladys Elphick Park / Narnungga (Park 25)
