Visitor information

Hours

Admission

Free

Location and Map

Shepherds Hill Road, Blackwood SA 5051, Australia

Wittunga Botanic Garden brochure

Entrance: Shepherds Hill Road or Sherbourne Road.

Getting there

Bus & Train: Check Adelaide Metro for bus services to Blackwood and train services to Coromandel Station.

Walk: 5-10 minute walk from Blackwood town centre.

Parking

Free parking is available in the car park off Shepherds Hill Road.

Accessibility

There are wheelchair and pram-friendly paths in the garden, picnic tables and rotundas, as well as accessible toilet facilities.

Garden entrances from the car park are wheelchair accessible for visitors who arrive in a vehicle.

For wheelchair access from the street, the Sherbourne Road entrance on the eastern boundary is accessible for wheelchairs. It has flat surfaces and bitumen paths.

There is also access from the footpath off Shepherd's Hill Road that leads to the new nature playspace, however visitors are advised there is a air-lock child safety gate; some people may require assistance to unlatch this gate. This pathway is compacted gravel and has a gentle gradient.

The nature playspace has a wheelchair accessible in-ground trampoline.

Playspace

Enjoy a nature playspace suitable for 2-12 year olds. Featuring equipment inspired by nature, children will delight in the climbing frames, swings, a giant bench, wodli (cubby), a dry, sandy billabong and more.

Regulations

Botanic gardens are different from public parks in that they're living museums, filled with plant collections with conservation value. For this reason some activities are not permitted as they have the potential to damage or destroy plants.

Botanic Gardens are also places for visitors to find peace and tranquility, so activities that negatively affect this are not permitted.

You must not:

• bring dogs or other pets into the Garden
• fly drones in or above the Garden (Learn more at our Filming and Photography page)
• ride bikes / bicycles, scooters, skateboards or rollerblades
• bring alcohol into the Garden
• use BBQs and portable gas cookers into the Garden
• smoke or vape in the Garden
• drive vehicles into the Garden
• damage or remove plants or enter garden beds
• play ball or throwing games
• Swim in or enter lakes, ponds or waterways.

Wildlife

The Botanic Gardens of South Australia are home to a huge variety of bird and animal life that are attracted to the Gardens’ flora. We do, however, ask that you do not feed the wildlife. Find out more about animal welfare and the Botanic Gardens of South Australia.