Red Walk
The red walk is our native tree walk combining the early native tree plantings of Douglas Cook in Yunnan Court and later plantings in the Native Reserve before returning to the Visitor Centre through the large conifers and oaks in Cabin Park.
What you'll see on the Red Walk:
Cabin Park
Cabin Park was Douglas Cook's major extension of the Garden in the mid 1930s. He set out a series of tracks up the hill at the north western end where he in 1936 built his ‘Canadian Cabin' and planted material he thought was frost tender.
Ocote Flat
The Heart
Black Forest
Bathing Pool Hill
The Lookout
Cedar Garden
The Cathedral
Sholto's
Canadian Cabin
Beechwood
Yunnan Court
Native Reserve
A recent development, the native reserve takes in a 2ha of natural regenerating bush in Cabin Park and the 1979 plantings of native timber species undertaken by Forest Research Institute. These trees are well established now and over the last few years the planting has expanded to include many species of native plants, trees, shrubs and climbers that will grow in the climatic conditions that exist in this district.
