Wadmore Park Walking Route
Walking trail marked in green.
Other tracks marked in pale green.
Addison Avenue
Help Maintain
the Park
Walking in
Wadmore Park
(Pulyonna Wirra)
CFS Access
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• Please keep to the walking tracks.
• If you have a dog with you please ensure
for the bush experience of others that your
dog is on a lead.
• Dog owners must ensure that dog
faeces are collected.
• Collect rubbish you find in the park to improve
the park experience for others.
• Bicycles are not allowed in the park.
Recreation Area
CFS Access
Car Park Main Entrance
Getting to the Park:
Maryvale Road
The park can be accessed from either Maryvale
Road or Addison Road in Athelstone.
178 and 179 buses pass along Maryvale Road.
Campbelltown Landcare Group Inc.
Email: [email protected]
Wadmore
Park
What can I do in
Wadmore Park?
Fifth Creek
Foxfield
Recreation Oval
NPWS Gate
Plant drawings by Erica Mainprize
Printed on 100% recycled paper. June 2011
Designed and printed by Kwik-Kopy Norwood.
• Take a walk to familiarise yourself with the park.
• Get to know the birds and vegetation.
• Become involved with maintaining the park.
Walking in
Wadmore Park
A Suggested Walk in the Park
(Total distance 2 km)
Start at Wadmore Park car park, about 300 metres
north of the Foxfield Oval on Maryvale Road.
Walk east and up the hill along the Central fire track
(gravel surface). This track runs for 350 metres before
it joins the main north-south Swale fire track. Turn left
and follow this fire track north for 200 metres before
turning left on to a narrow walking track just before a
bridge over a small creek.
Get to know the birds & vegetation
The extensive woodland and the dense acacia and
sheoak understorey provide an excellent environment
for large and small birds.
Frequent visitors to the park include the sulphurcrested cockatoo, galah, red wattlebird, grey
currawong, yellow-tailed black cockatoo, magpie
and Adelaide rosella.
Amongst the smaller birds, New Holland honeyeaters,
willy wagtails, grey fantails, superb fairy wrens, brown
thornbills and silvereyes are common. The park
is an excellent area for bird watchers.
At this point you are in a blue gum forest with a dense
acacia understorey. Follow this track downhill for about
80 metres in a westerly direction, (pass one track on
the left which has a dirt mound, and a second which
adjoins next to a concrete slab) then turn left along a
third track heading due south.
The land to the west at this point was planted to gum
trees in the 1990s. Follow this track along the contour
across the Central fire track and then for another 500
metres to the Black Hill Nursery fenced boundary. Turn
left and follow the track near the fenceline downhill
until you reach the Fifth Creek trail running north along
Fifth Creek and back to the car park.
Other access points: The walking trail can be accessed
from the Swale fire track on Addison Avenue and from
the drainage reserve near the Melaleuca Drive and
Wistaria Grove intersection in Foxfield Estate.
The Adelaide
Hills Face and
the Adelaide
Plains intersect in
Wadmore Park,
thus providing
a rich diversity of
vegetation within
the park.
Fifth Creek runs
through the
south-western
corner of the
Banksia Marginata
Silver Banksia
park. There are
large river red
gums along the creek, and much of the understorey in
this area has been planted by Campbelltown Landcare
Group since 1994. The remainder of the southern
two-thirds of the park contains a remarkable variety of
plants, with a number of plants such as flame heath,
banksias and yacca being at the limit of their range on
to the Adelaide Plains.
Other plants such as mulga grass and cypress pine
are generally found in much drier climates. On the
eastern or uphill side of the park, blue gums give way
to the mallee formed pink gums and sheoaks.
Bursaria Spinosa
Sweet Bursaria
There is also a small patch of open heath in the park,
which is virtually treeless. The north-western corner
of the park contains open woodland vegetation.