outdoors

This unique sea walk is strictly a low tide affair, when a sand causeway between tiny mangrove encircled King Island

A walk around Windsor is charming with hilly streets revealing a fascinating history of gorgeous villas, stunning vistas, tragedies, medical firsts and quirks.

This scenic seafront walk or ride of around 10km return packs a lot of variety into its length

The sporting legacy of the 1982 Commonwealth Games is still going strong as the Sleeman Sports Complex

With cross-river views to Teneriffe, this wide open green space has a playground, dog offleash area and BBQs

Hugging the shores of Lake Samsonvale, this tranquil and spacious eucalypt treed reserve is arguably one of the best picnic and barbecue spots around

Nestled at the base of the Story Bridge’s imposing south pylon is this park with one of the city’s most striking outlooks.

Colmslie Reserve is an eden-like grove and parkland, complete with sandy beach, that appears like a mirage down a long tree-lined drive in the midst of an industrial area of Murarrie.

On weekend afternoons this park resembles a village green in England as families, dog walkers, picnickers and sports players descend on the tree-bordered grassy expanse to enjoy the last of the day’s sun.

The main drawcard of this park is the well equipped playground for children of all ages that comes surrounded by grassy fields, bike paths and plentiful eating nooks.

The showcase family friendly park on the northside, Kalinga’s drawcards are many.

Sandwiched between the evergreen Paul’s milk factory, William Jolly Bridge and GOMA is a tiny pocket park where fisherman drop a line and through which the riverside bike and pedestrian track passes on its way to Kurilpa Bridge.

These beautiful lush hectares of meadowland have at their heart one of the rare surviving lagoons from pre-settlement days.

It’s possible to happily pass an hour or a day within the 56-hectare subtropical expanse that is Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens

The picture perfect self-contained Japanese garden sits on the eastern hill end of Queens Park behind the historic caretakers cottage.

The city’s grandest century old park has rose gardens, rotunda, massive fig tree playground and more