Thousands of people come through the park every day, commuting to or from the city. It is truly a family park, with almost 150,000 visits by kids using the playspace and ovals here each year. King Rodney Park consists of an almost-rectangular block…

The age of the tree is unknown but it’s most unlikely to pre-date European settlement. It was probably planted in the 1870’s, or later. On an aerial photo of the Park, taken in 1936 it’s clearly visible as a large tree, even then. At the base of…

The first Glover playground was on South Terrace (Park 20) – in December 1918. The second Glover playground was (and is) on Lefevre Tce (Park 6). This one was proposed by Mayor Glover in 1924, for the benefit of children in the east of the City,…

Within 20 years of European settlement, most of the Adelaide Park Lands had been stripped bare of trees. By the 1850’s the early settlers used almost all the existing trees for firewood, fence posts, and to allow sheep, cattle and horses to…

The creek is bordered by dense mature vegetation and provides lovely areas to rest sitting on a log or to enjoy a picnic. Botanic Creek doesn’t run all year. It’s an “ephemeral” creek; meaning that it flows only after rainfall. It channels water…

In recent years the sport has been growing rapidly in popularity but it’s still not widely known. Players use the term “disc” although most people would know a flying disc as a “frisbee”. “Frisbee” is a trade mark. It’s just one brand of flying…

These facilities were previously used for tennis as well, but tennis was moved out to accommodate a temporary skate park, that was built here in 2016. The temporary skate facilities were built here as a stop-gap measure after a different skate park,…

There are two bitumen paths that both traverse King Rodney Park from north-west to south-east. One crosses Botanic Creek and links up with Bartels Road and Rymill Park to the north. The other stays on this side of the creek and links up with East…

Despite the constant hum of passing traffic, this is another lovely area to walk around and keep an eye out for a variety of birds and possums that may be living in tree hollows – so-called “habitat trees”. The shared-use walking and cycling trail…

A few steps past the cricket nets, at the top of a gentle rise, a dirt road rolls away downhill, towards the west. The road is lined with about a dozen mature pepper trees. One of the lovely things about this Park is that it's not flat. The…

The first sporting oval was set up by City Gardener August Pelzer in 1906. The other two closer to Dequetteville Terrace came much later, after the 1930's. The sporting fields are used for cricket, football and athletics. They're licenced…

The first decade of the 20th century was an economic boom time for South Australia, and the State was relatively wealthy. Beginning in 1905, the City Council approved a series of recommendations from Mr Pelzer to improve this Park as well as other…

To the Adelaide people of the late Victorian era, one of the few aboriginal people who was well-known was a so-called ‘fringe-dweller’, Tommy Walker. He frequented and camped in the Eastern Park Lands in the second half of the 19th century. Tommy,…