The City Council is inviting expressions of interest for sporting fields and sports sheds in two Parks.

In each case, existing arrangements have expired. Rather than offer an automatic extension to the existing licensees, the Council is looking to see whether other groups might like to take over the use of existing playing fields and sheds.

After getting 3,998 signatures on a petition to “Save Helen Mayo Park” we are celebrating a victory.

Premier Steven Marshall failed to listen. He's now lost his job. His lack of vision in trying to destroy Helen Mayo Park with a stadium has disappeared as well. However, the new Labor State Government also has a number of threats to your Park Lands on its agenda.

North Adelaide residents have issued an appeal to two prominent Labor figures in a bid to save this Open Green Public space in Denise Norton Park / Pardipardinyilla (Park 2).

Locals have supported APA’s push to reclaim Park Lands when the Aquatic Centre is rebuilt.

Few people realise that the Festival Plaza is part of the Adelaide Park Lands.

In 2012, it was given away to a billionaire for a 27-storey office tower, shops and a car park. In return, you’ve been given fake trees and an ocean of new pavers.

Students at schools and universities in and near the Adelaide CBD are being invited to send in entries to our 'UnPaving Paradise' Poster design competition.

APA is looking for bright ideas to kick start reclaiming disused bitumen areas in your Park Lands and turning them into inviting Open Green Public spaces.

Clean Up Australia Day, on the first Sunday in March every year, is a great event invoking community spirit right across the nation.

Here in Adelaide we had three separate “Clean Up” events in your Park Lands.

In Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings stories, trees are protected by shepherds of the forest, the Ents.

Sadly the trees of Adelaide have no Ents to protect them, but they do have something just as powerfully protective: YOU!

Pre-poll voting in the South Australian State election starts today: Monday 7 March. How can you vote for your Park Lands?

We’ve surveyed the parties and developed a how-to-vote recommendation. Before you cast your vote, check out the parties’ responses to our questions and how we’ve scored them.

The Adelaide Park Lands Association has joined a large group of SA businesses, organisations and leaders to call on the next South Australian government to take strong action on climate change.

The South Australians for Climate Action 2022 Statement highlights just how much SA has to gain by responding positively and forcefully to the changing climate.

Century-old London Plane trees in Frome Road have joined the State Government’s “hit list” of trees that it wants to destroy, Meet the activists trying to save your City’s green canopy and learn what you can do to help.

Promises made during an election campaign need to be taken with a pinch of salt, but it's been heartening to see messages of support emerging for what could be the greatest-ever promotion of your Adelaide Park Lands.

For the first time, the proposed Adelaide Recreation Circuit has emerged as an election issue, with encouragement from SA Labor, and full-throated support from the Greens, the SA Party, and the Animal Justice Party.

New students at Adelaide University have been introduced to part of your Adelaide Park Lands, in a Guided “River Walk”.

As part of this year's Orientation Week, a crowd of 65 new students, plus volunteers and staff, toured the historic Grundy Gardens in Park 12, and the restored riverine bushland in Park 11, on a two-hour walk with an APA Guide.

Visual artist and social media influencer, Billie Justice Thomson, thinks of the Adelaide Park Lands as a very special “green ring around the city”.

Whether it’s riding her bike, taking a picnic, enjoying playgrounds with her son, or exploring a pocket of bushland, Billie draws comfort and inspiration from Adelaide’s unique garland.