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Reserve

Type - Reserve
Artarmon Recreational Reserve
Blackbutt Reserve
Blair Park
Bradley Reserve
Clontarf Reserve
Clyne Reserve
Colebee and Nurragingy's land grant site
Dalrymple Hay Reserve
Deepwater Park
Euston Reserve
Field of Mars Wildlife Reserve
Flying Fox Reserve
Gordon Falls Reserve
Greater Blue Mountains Area
Hargrave Park
Haymarket Reserve
John Oxley Reserve
John Thompson Reserve
Keith Longhurst Reserve
Kentucky Reserve
Kokoda Park
Lambeth Park
Mahony Reserve
Parsley Bay Reserve
Queen Elizabeth Reserve West Lindfield
Sir Joseph Banks Park
St Albans Common
Terramerragal Reserve
Wellings Reserve
West Head Lookout
Windsor Downs Nature Reserve

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Reserve

Artarmon Recreational Reserve

Remnant of original 57 hectare reserve including bushland with distinctive flora.

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Blackbutt Reserve

Bush reserve between Gordon and West Pymble.

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Blair Park

Public park which was once the estate Evandale owned by Captain Henry Fox.

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Bradley Reserve

Park in South Turramurra, in Sydney's northern suburbs.

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Clontarf Reserve

Reserve on the shore of Middle Harbour in Holmes Avenue and Sandy Bay Road, Clontarf.

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Clyne Reserve

Children's playground and reserve built for the residents of Millers Point. The adjacent Port Operations and Communications Centre tower opened on 12 August 1974.

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Colebee and Nurragingy's land grant site

Land grant of 30 acres to Colebee and Nurragingy. Granted in 1819 by Governor Macquarie for their loyalty and service to government as guides, it remains a site of significance for Aboriginal people.

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Dalrymple Hay Reserve

Reserve containing one of the last stands of blue gum high forest in Sydney.

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Deepwater Park

Reserve between Henry Lawson Drive and the George River at Bankstown.

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Euston Reserve

Park in the suburb of Hurlstone Park

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Field of Mars Wildlife Reserve

Reserve in northern Sydney measuring 56 hectares and containing around 300 plant species which support an even greater diversity of animals, from spiders to possums and birds.

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Flying Fox Reserve

A reserve flanking Stony Creek at the northern end of Nelson Street Gordon which houses a large colony of grey-headed flying foxes.

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Gordon Falls Reserve

Reserve overlooking the Jamison Valley in Leura.

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Greater Blue Mountains Area

UNESCO world heritage area of 1.03 million hectares of sandstone plateaux, escarpments and gorges dominated by temperate eucalypt forest. It is noted for its representation of the evolutionary adaptation and diversification of the eucalypts in post-Gondwana isolation on the Australian continent. 

Spread across eight adjacent conservation reserves, it constitutes one of the largest and most intact tracts of protected bushland in Australia. The eight reserves are: from the south, Thirlmere National Park; Nattai National Park; Kanangra Boyd National Park; Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve; Blue Mountains National Park; Gardens of Stone National Park; Wollemi National Park and Yengo National Park.

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Hargrave Park

A reserve adjacent to Lawrence Hargrave Drive and The Hume Highway, Warwick Farm. In the 1950s and 1960s the site had been used for Aboriginal hostels for the people who came from the inner city because of the lack of housing.

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Haymarket Reserve

Public reserve opposite the original Belmore Markets in Haymarket, often used for circus and fairs in the 1870s and 1880s.

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John Oxley Reserve

Reserve adjacent to an exclusive subdivision at Kirkham.

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John Thompson Reserve

Small reserve beside Paddington Reservoir gardens which commemorates John Thompson and the Paddington Society who fought to stop redevelopment of the area.

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Keith Longhurst Reserve

Park in Kentlyn

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Kentucky Reserve

Riverside parkland west of Bankstown Aerodrome.

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Kokoda Park

A reserve in Carinya Avenue St Marys as a memorial to those Australians who died on the Kokoda Track during World War II.

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Lambeth Park

Reserve in the neighbourhood of Picnic Point, located between Georges River and Henry Lawson Drive,opposite Lambeth Street.

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Mahony Reserve

Park on Illawarra Road beside the Cooks River at Marrickville.

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Parsley Bay Reserve

Public recreation ground at the head of Parsley Bay in Sydney's eastern suburbs that was created by the NSW State Government in 1907 after resuming the land, formerly part of the Wentworth Vaucluse estate, in 1906. The reserve is adminstered by Woollahra Council.

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Queen Elizabeth Reserve West Lindfield

Park established on the site of the RAAF Training Base and Migrant Hostel.

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Sir Joseph Banks Park

Reserve located adjacent to the northern shore of Botany Bay, about 1500 metres to the east of the main runway at Sydney Airport.

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St Albans Common

The St Albans, or Wallambine, Common on the Macdonald River is a 1035 hectare reserve on a swamp at the convergence of the Macdonald River and Mogo Creek just north of the St Albans village. It was gazetted as Common land in 1853.

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Terramerragal Reserve

Park in North Turramurra.

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Wellings Reserve

Parkland on North Harbour at Balgowlah.

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West Head Lookout

Lookout at the eastern tip of the Lambert Peninsula overlooking Pittwater and the Hawkesbury River.

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Windsor Downs Nature Reserve

Nature reserve near Rickards Road, Agnes Banks, to protect the unusual sand deposits in the district so as to facilitate research on ecological change and threatened species.

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