City views from The Domain, Sydney, May 2021, 02

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mounta ...

is well endowed with open spaces and has many natural areas. Many of these exist even within the compact

city centre A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart of a city. The term "city centre" is primarily used in British English, and closely equivalent terms exist in other languages, such as "" in Fren ...

. These include the

Chinese Garden of Friendship The Chinese Garden of Friendship () is a heritage-listed Chinese garden at 1 Harbour Street, in the Sydney Central Business District, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Modelled after the classic private gardens of the Ming dynast ...

and Hyde Park (which is named after

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's Hyde Park). The metropolitan area contains several

national park A national park is a natural park in use for conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual ...

s, including the

Royal National Park The Royal National Park is a protected national park that is located in Sutherland Shire in the Australian state of New South Wales, just south of Sydney. The national park is about south of the Sydney central business district near the loca ...

, the second oldest national park in the world (after

Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowst ...

), which occupies an area of . Completing Sydney's wide array of green spaces, the leader is the Royal Botanical Gardens, with its large amount of green spaces, lush plants and colourful flowers. Although Sydney developed organically after the arrival of the

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, the city parks and open spaces were a part of early town planning to provide relief from the bustle and monotony of the city streets. Hyde Park is the oldest park in the city. Lover's Walk, Hyde Park, Sydney (transparency) - a variety of Sydney and country scenes - (8446992740)

Lover's Walk, Hyde Park, Sydney (transparency) - a variety of Sydney and country scenes - (8446992740)

Largest parks in Sydney metropolitan area

Largest parks in the City of Sydney area

Parks and reserves

The following is an incomplete list of parks and reserves in Sydney: * Alexandria Park * Anderson Park, Neutral Bay * Angophora Reserve * Arthur McElhone Reserve *

Auburn Botanical Gardens The Auburn Botanic Gardens are a botanical garden located in Auburn (a suburb of Sydney), New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1977 and covers an area of . There are two lakes, a waterfall and bridges. Duck River winds through t ...

Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan is a botanical garden located in a hilly area of the southwestern Sydney suburb of , between Campbelltown and Camden, New South Wales. It is the largest botanical garden in Australia, specializing in ...

* Badangi Reserve * Balfour Street Park * Ballast Point *

Balls Head Reserve The Balls Head Reserve is a forested headland nature reserve situated on Balls Head in Sydney. The headland is in Port Jackson, west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, between Berrys Bay to the east and Balls Head Bay to the west. It is named ...

* Barangaroo Reserve * Beare Park * Bede Spillane Gardens *

Belmore Park Belmore Park is a public park at the southern end of the Sydney central business district in the Australian state of New South Wales. Adjacent to the Central railway station, the park is bounded by Hay Street, Eddy Avenue, Elizabeth Stree ...

Ben Buckler Gun Battery The Ben Buckler Gun Battery is a heritage-listed fortified former gun emplacement and military installation of the late-Victorian period and now public open space located in the locality of Ben Buckler, in the Waverley Municipality of Sydney, ...

* Bents Basin State Conservation Area *

Berowra Valley Regional Park The Berowra Valley Regional Park is in the Hornsby Shire in Sydney, Australia. Most of what was previously the regional park was placed in the Berowra Valley National Park in September 2012. Only a small portion remains as the regional park. S ...

* Berry Island Reserve * Bicentennial Park ** Brickpit Ring Walk **

Louise Sauvage Pathway Located alongside the suburb of Newington, New South Wales, and named in honour of Australian paralympic wheelchair racer Louise Sauvage, the Pathway is the longest continuous section of pathway in Sydney Olympic Park. As such, the pathway is s ...

Bicentennial Square Centenary Square, formerly known as Bicentennial Square, is a civic square located in the heart of Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It faces the 1883 Parramatta Town Hall and St John's Cathedral. The square was listed on the Parramatta ...

* Birchgrove Park *

Botany Bay National Park The Kamay Botany Bay National Park is a heritage-listed protected national park that is located in the Sydney metropolitan region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The national park is situated approximately south-east of the Sydn ...

* Bradley's Head * Brenan Park * Brightmore reserve * Burwood Park * Carss Cottage * Centenary Park * Centennial Parklands ** Centennial Park ** Moore Park ** Queens Park *

Central Gardens Nature Reserve The Central Gardens Nature Reserve, also called Central Gardens, is a protected nature reserve located in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1976, the reserve, garden and fauna and wildlife park is situat ...

* Cremorne Point Reserve **Robertsons Point * Chipping Norton Lake * Cooks River/Castlereagh Ironbark ecological community * The Domain * Fagan Park *

Fairfield Park Precinct Fairfield Park Precinct, or Fairfield Park, is an urban park situated in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Situated to the south of Fairfield CBD, the park contains an open grassland, bushland, picnic spots, playgroun ...

Ferndale Park Ferndale Park is located in suburban , from the centre of Sydney, Australia. It is an important urban forest reserve, preserving Eucalyptus pilularis, Blackbutt forest and the mossy gully rainforest. Most of this original forest was cleared for ...

* First Fleet Park, * Fred Hollows Reserve * Frog Hollow Reserve, *

Garawarra State Conservation Area The Garawarra State Conservation Area is a protected conservation area that is located on the southern suburban fringe of Greater Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The reserve abuts the Royal National Park and i ...

* Garigal National Park * Garrison Point * George Kendall Riverside Park *

Georges River National Park Georges River National Park is a protected Australian National Park, under the management of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. The park falls in the regions of the Sutherland Shire Council and Canterbury-Bankstown Council. Locate ...

The Goods Line The Goods Line is an linear park and shared pedestrian pathway and cycleway in the suburb of Ultimo, in the City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The corridor connects Railway Square to Darling Harbour in the south and passes both the U ...

* Green Park,

Darlinghurst Darlinghurst is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Darlinghurst is located immediately east of the Sydney central business district (CBD) and Hyde Park, within the local government area of the City of Sydney. ...

* Harmony Park, *

Heathcote National Park Heathcote National Park is a protected national park that is located in the southern region of Sydney, New South Wales in eastern Australia, and is situated on Dharawal country. The national park is situated approximately southwest of the Sy ...

* Hyde Park *

Iloura Reserve Iloura Reserve is a heritage-listed public reserve on the site of a former lumber yard, timber yard at 1020 Weston Street, Balmain East, New South Wales, Balmain East, Inner West Council, Sydney New South Wales, Australia. Following the resumpt ...

* Jessie Street Gardens * Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve, Kareela *

Kellys Bush Park The Kellys Bush Park is a heritage-listed bushland, partly on the former site of smelting works, at Nelson Parade, Hunters Hill in the Municipality of Hunter's Hill local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as Weil ...

* Koala Park Sanctuary *

Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park is a national park on the northern side of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. The park is north of the Sydney central business district and generally comprises the land east of the M1 Pacific Motorway, sou ...

* Lake Parramatta Reserve * Lane Cove Bushland Park * Lane Cove National Park * Leacock Regional Park *

Lower Prospect Canal Reserve The Lower Prospect Canal Reserve is a heritage-listed former farm and public water supply canal and now bushy corridor and nature reserve stretching through the heart of suburban Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The lineal corridor stretche ...

Macquarie Place Park The Macquarie Place Park, also known as the Macquarie Place Precinct, is a heritage-listed small triangular urban park located in the Sydney central business district in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. T ...

Magdala Park Magdala Park is a recreational area. The park is adjacent to Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. The park also has forest areas, where recreational activities are taken up. The football field playing surfaces are maintained by the City of Ryde ...

* McKell Park *

McLeod Reserve McLeod Reserve is a park situated along the Hume Highway in Bankstown, New South Wales Bankstown is a suburb south west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 16 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central bu ...

* Moore Reserve *

Moore Reserve, Oatley Moore Reserve is a 14.2 hectare park surrounded by the Sydney suburbs of Oatley, Mortdale Mortdale is a suburb located in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mortdale is located 20 kilometres south of the Sy ...

* Mortdale Memorial Park * Neild Park *

Nielsen Park Nielsen may refer to: Business * Nielsen Gallery, an American commercial art gallery * Nielsen Holdings, global information, data, and measurement company ** Nielsen Corporation, a marketing research firm ** Nielsen Audio, formerly Arbitron, whic ...

Nurragingy Reserve The Nurragingy Nature Reserve is an Australian open urban park and forest, nature reserve and garden, it is a protected area owned by Western Sydney Parklands Trust and operated by Blacktown City Council that opened in 1981. The Nature Reserve is ...

* Oatley Park * Oatley Pleasure Grounds * Oatley Point Reserve *

Observatory Park, Sydney Observatory Park is located in the heart of the Sydney central business district, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is near the Harbour Bridge and is bounded by Kent Street, Watson Road, Upper Fort Street and Bradfield Highway, Mil ...

* Oxford Falls Peace Park *

Paddington Reservoir The Paddington Reservoir is a heritage-listed public park located at 255a Oxford Street in the inner eastern Sydney suburb of Paddington in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Edward B ...

* Parramatta River Regional Park * Penrith Lakes Regional Park * Prince Alfred Park * Prince Alfred Square * Prospect Hill *

Prospect Nature Reserve Prospect Nature Reserve is a nature reserve and recreational area that is situated in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, which incorporates the Prospect Reservoir, and also features picnic spots, lookouts, walking tr ...

* Pyrmont Point Park * Queen Elizabeth Park * Redfern Park * Rockdale Bicentennial Park * Rofe Park * Rosford Street Reserve * Rouse Hill Regional Park * Royal Botanical Gardens * Rushcutters Bay Park * Smoothey Park * St Leonards Park * St Leonards Park *

St Thomas Rest Park St Thomas Rest Park, located in West Street, Crows Nest, New South Wales is the site of the first cemetery on Sydney's North Shore. It is the largest park in the densely populated Crows Nest area. Cemetery The land that now contains the St ...

Sydney Cove West Archaeological Precinct Sydney Cove West Archaeological Precinct is a heritage-listed precinct that contains The Rocks police station, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, car park, parks, shops and roads located at 112-156 George Street, in the inner city Syd ...

Sydney Harbour National Park The Sydney Harbour National Park is an Australian national park comprising parts of Port Jackson, Sydney and its foreshores and various islands. The national park lies in New South Wales and was created progressively, from 1975. The nationa ...

* Sydney Park *

Sydney Zoo Sydney Zoo is a zoo in Bungarribee in the Western Sydney Parklands, in Greater Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Sydney Zoo is located west of the Sydney central business district. It occupies a site. Sydney Zoo is a member of the ...

Tania Park Tania Park is an urban park located at 2 Bareena Drive, Balgowlah Heights, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Administered by the Northern Beaches Council, the park functions as a suburban park containing large dog exercise ar ...

Taronga Zoo Sydney Taronga Zoo is a zoo located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in the suburb of Mosman, on the shores of Sydney Harbour. The opening hours are between 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Taronga is an Aboriginal word meaning 'beautiful water view'. It ...

* Terry Lamb Complex * Victoria Park, Camperdown * Wadim (Bill) Jegorow Reserve *

Wallumatta Nature Reserve Wallumatta Nature Reserve, also called the Macquarie Hospital Bushland, is a nature reserve bushland area, surrounded by the residential suburb of East Ryde, in suburban Sydney, Australia. Once part of the Field of Mars of 1804, the reserve is ...

* Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator, Willoughby *

Waverley Cemetery The Waverley Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery on top of the cliffs at Bronte in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Opened in 1877 and built by R. Watkins (cemetery lodge, 1878) and P. Beddie (cemetery office, 1915), ...

* Waverley Park *

Wentworth Park Wentworth Park is a park near the suburbs of Glebe and Ultimo in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The park contains several muti-purpose sporting pitches, cricket nets and a number of fitness installations. There is a playground in the s ...

* Western Sydney Parklands *

Wetherill Park Nature Reserve Wetherill Park Nature Reserve, also called Wetherill Park Reserve, is an urban park and a nature reserve situated in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The reserve contains an open woodland and bushland which feature na ...

Wild Life Sydney Wild Life Sydney Zoo (formerly Sydney Wildlife World) is a wildlife park in the Darling Harbour precinct, on the western edge of the Sydney central business district, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Opened in September 2006, the zoo is loc ...

* William Howe Regional Park * Wolli Creek Regional Park * Wynyard Park, Sydney * Yellomundee Regional Park * Yurulbin Park

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Largest parks in Sydney metropolitan area

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Parks and reserves

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