Olympic Parklands

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One of Australia’s largest parklands, Sydney Olympic Park is special place. It has woodlands, saltmarshes, a waterbird refuge and mangroves. The parklands play an important role as a local park as well as being an important place of activity as Sydney grows bigger. The parklands are a group of many different parks and places brought together as one park so it can be cared for more easily.  There are now over 2.7 million visitors to the parklands each year. The parklands include the relaxation and play areas of Bicentennial Park, Wentworth Common and Blaxland Riverside Park; the sporting grounds at Wilson Park and Archery Park, and Monster and Mountain X facilities; the Newington Armory; the more natural areas of Newington Nature Reserve and Badu Mangroves; the Brickpit and large areas of wetlands and waterways.

Nearly half of the Park provides habitat for endangered animals and plants. The Park includes three endangered communities with over 180 native bird species and seven frog species. The Park is also home to 400 native plant species, 10 bat species, 15 reptile species, many fish species and many thousands of invertebrate species. The Park supports one of the largest remaining populations of the endangered Green and Golden Bell Frog. Sydney Olympic Park offers of pedestrian and cycle paths.