Queens Park in Ipswich is like three destinations in one – a playground, an Australian animal zoo, and Japanese gardens, all in walking distance between each other. Queens Park Playground The playground design borrows from the coal mining history of Ipswich. A mining shaft headframe is at the top of slippery dips and the start … Read more
Denmark Hill Conservation Reserve displayed on the brown signs as Enviro. Park Lookout, is a pocket of bushland not far from the centre of Ipswich. The name on the brown sign doesn’t accurately describe what the area is, as the lookout is just one part of much more contained in this area. The signs around … Read more
The Workshops Rail Museum is in Ipswich and often referred to as the Ipswich Railway Museum, opening in 2002. It is the first point of interest on the Cobb & Co Tourist Drive . The site was originally Queensland Rail’s North Ipswich Railway Workshops, a larger site from the when the original workshops, where Queensland … Read more
This brown sign destination changed in 2021 with the golf course closing on 30th June, 2021. The brown signs for Victoria Park Golf Complex were changed to simply be Victoria Park. A new page has been created to replace this one, and this page removed from the maps. Victoria Park Golf Complex is a golf … Read more
Settlement Cove Lagoon, also known as Redcliffe Lagoon, is a free water park, set on the shores of Moreton Bay at Redcliffe. It is very popular for families and is not uncommon to see it busy on weekday afternoons during the summer. The lagoon is quite large with varying depths from shallow areas through to … Read more
JC Slaughter Falls is a picnic ground and an access point for walks in Mt Coot-tha Reserve. It is a nice bushy area with a creek running through, with grassy areas and plenty of places to setup for a picnic. JC Slaughter Falls is named after a town clerk of Brisbane, James Cameron Slaughter. There … Read more
The Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium is located at the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens , with an observatory and a 12.5 metre diameter projection dome. Access to the Planetarium is free, where you can look at the displays in the foyer and the gallery around the perimeter of the skydome, and the mini theatre near the foyer. The … Read more
Mt Coot-tha Library is on the grounds of the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, specialising in botany, gardening, and landscape design. The collection is valuable to researchers in these fields. Other subject areas include botanic illustration, conservation, herbal medicine, astronomy, floral art, and natural history. The library has a regular storytime in the gardens for young … Read more
The Queensland Herbarium is at Toowong, at the grounds of the Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, moved there in 1998. It’s history goes much further back to 1855, not long before Queensland separated from New South Wales as a colony. It has a plant specimen collection of more than 850,000, representing native and naturalised plant species … Read more
The Brisbane Botanical Gardens at Mt Coot-tha is 56 hectares of subtropical gardens, with more than 100,000 plants of 5,000 species. The gardens commenced in 1970 and officially opened in 1976, as an alternative location to the Brisbane City botanical gardens. The site was chosen as a flood free location, as the city botanical gardens … Read more
