Blue Gum Park / Kurangga (Park 20) is rectangular in shape – bounded by the four roads around it: South Tce, Peacock Rd, Greenhill Rd and Unley Rd. It is one of the most picturesque and well used parts of the Adelaide Park Lands. This Park…

If you walk to the top the footbridge offers views southwards over Blue Gum Park / Kurangga (Park 20) to the Adelaide Hills escarpment. Why is the school called Pulteney Grammar when it is located on South Terrace? It was established in Pulteney…

There are seven sporting fields or courts, and 12 different sports or recreation played regularly in this Park. The list includes soccer, cricket, Aussie Rules football, netball, basketball, athletics, hockey, tennis, and petanque. Many of these…

The Adelaide Mayor of the time, Charles Glover, believed playgrounds were important to “promote the happiness and well-being of the children of the City”. Mayor Glover donated 863 pounds towards construction of the playground. The Council set…

This is a perfect area for family and friends to get out, be active and perhaps get a little dirty. Here, bike riders of all ages and abilities can enjoy a variety of different bike tracks. When first constructed there were only two tracks, for…

They come from a wide variety of species, including the popular Moreton Bay figs, and Canary Island Pines, along with European Olives, Hoop Pines and Himalayan Cypress. There are also two species that are relatively unusual in the Adelaide Park…

Some sports have been played in the Adelaide Park Lands for more than 150 years. In contrast, the game of petanque is a comparative newcomer. Petanque has been played in Adelaide only since 1973. The writer and film producer Wylton Dickson is…

In January 2018, the City of Adelaide approved an eight-year lease – not of the ground – but of the tree tops. The courses and obstacles you can see here were built over an area of 16,000 square metres, using the existing mature trees, including…

For most of its length within the Park Lands, the Creek is not a natural watercourse but an artificial drainage channel. It was built in 1917 to channel water away from what was a boggy area near the corner of Greenhill Road and Fullarton…

This pathway, near the Tree Climb, is not one of the major paths through Park 20. It’s a secondary path aligned east-west that connects the other two, mainly north-south pathways The ideas behind the pathways in the Adelaide Park Lands go back to…

The grounds are covered in synthetic grass. They are marked out for both tennis and hockey, in three separate fenced areas. The largest enclosure, on the northern side, is laid out as either 12 tennis courts or one full-size hockey pitch. A…

The feature was a memorial commemorating the members of South Park Bowling Club who served in World War One. It was a white painted concrete obelisk topped by an urn with four lions, standing about head-high. For many years, while the South Park…

Day-night cricket is very popular with the Big Bash League and one-day internationals played under lights. But most people don’t realise that an earlier form of night cricket was invented here in Adelaide and played by hundreds of people on…