Park 21
English name: Veale Park
Kaurna name: Walyu Yarta (meaning "walyu root ground")
Features:
Veale Gardens
Walyu Yarta community garden
Sporting fields
Model aircraft flying zones in the eastern section
Bounded by: Peacock Rd, Greenhill Road, South Terrace and Sir Lewis Cohen Avenue
Veale Park/ Walyu Yarta (Park 21)
Guided Walks
Our Park Ambassador, Peter Sansom leads a Guided Walk through this Park once per year. See our schedule of Guided Walks.
But don’t wait for the next scheduled Guided Walk. Take your own self-guided walk at any time.
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Peter Sansom
Take a 1.8 km, 90-minute self-guided walk through this Park, using our Trail Guide. Start at location #1 on the map above, (i.e. near the tram stop at the corner of South Tce and Peacock Rd.) and follow these guide notes: www.adelaide-parklands.asn.au/park-21-tour
Veale Gardens were built in 1963 to the design of the City Council's then "Town Clerk" (CEO) William Veale.
One of the rose beds in Veale Gardens features a statue, installed in early 2018. The statue "Song of the Wind" was donated by Adelaide's sister city in China, Qingdao. A matching “sister” of the sculpture is located in a Qingdao City Park.
Historical oddity: From 1860, this park was used as rifle shooting practice range. There were several near misses of passing pedestrians before the rifle range was closed, for safety reasons, in 1878!
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