It is amazing what you can see in a dry creek bed. The stubbornly damp bed of the South Park Lands Creek is a part of a series of interconnected refuges, where life is waiting out Adelaide’s long dry spell.

Celebrated artist Margaret Ambridge has carried off the $20,000 first prize in the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, for her charcoal and ink drawing: “Bush for Life” .

Invited sponsors and donors mingled with the artists and their guests, at the Festival Centre on 1 April, as 11 prizes were awarded at the opening of the biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.

Temporary grandstands, temporary car parking - is it time to re-classify this as a temporary Park?

Thank you Judith Grimmett - going above and beyond what we expected, when creating the role of “Park Guardian” !

Water from the River Torrens /Karrawirra Pari was being tested on Monday 31 March after renewed fears about water quality.

Hundreds of survey respondents have identified the State Government as the biggest threat to your Adelaide Park Lands.
The 2025 Park Lands Survey results, from both supporters and the general public, will be used to plan our next initiatives, as we Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore in your Open, Green, Public Park Lands.

Social media followers have slammed Premier Peter Malinauskas over his refusal to acknowledge that a “skyscraper” now under construction by private developers, is on a site confiscated from your Adelaide Park Lands.

Do you know any Kaurna cultural and historical stories associated with your Adelaide Park Lands?

These stories come to life, inside the City of Adelaide’s “Kaurna Voices Cultural Mapping tool”

The next Park Lands Loop Collective is coming up on Sunday 6th April.

Curious? Check out the FAQ.

Trams will be parked in Veale Park / Walyu Yarta for several months while the Glenelg tramway is undergoing major upgrades to remove level crossings.

More high-powered lighting is coming to another sports field within your Park Lands.

Sports infrastructure now dominates more and more of what was once your Open, Green, Public land.

The next fortnight marks the culmination of the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.

After a Lord Mayoral reception for artists next Wednesday, installation of finalists’ artworks will be spread over four days at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

The green thumbs in “Green Pakapakanthi” are thrilled with the success of a six-month-old “pocket forest”.

Do you dream of forests? An artwork in part of your Adelaide Park Lands invites you to do so.

The commercialisation of your Park Lands is picking up pace. Following the Premier’s lead, you will soon see commercial ads on permanent fencing designed to keep you off parts of your Park Lands.

Meet a plucky, vivacious little bird with enormous attitude - the New Holland honeyeater can be found in your Adelaide Park Lands.

Preparations are underway for an exhibition, at the Adelaide Festival Centre, of 88 artworks, carefully chosen as the finalists, in the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.