O’Halloran Hill Recreation Park (part of Glenthorne National Park- Ityamaiitpinna Yarta)

Open dai­ly.

Clo­sures and safety

This park is closed on days of Cat­a­stroph­ic Fire Dan­ger and may also be closed on days of Extreme Fire Danger.

You can deter­mine the cur­rent fire dan­ger rat­ing by check­ing the Fire Ban Dis­trict map on the CFS website.

Check the CFS web­site or call the CFS Bush­fire Infor­ma­tion Hot­line 1800 362 361 for:

• Infor­ma­tion on fire bans and cur­rent fire conditions
• Cur­rent CFS warn­ings and incidents
• Infor­ma­tion on what to do in the event of a fire.

Lis­ten to your local area radio sta­tion for the lat­est updates and infor­ma­tion on fire safety.

Vis­i­tor infor­ma­tion, book­ings and park management:

Black Hill Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice Office
Phone: (+61) 7133 7300
Email: DEW.​NPWSSouthMetro@​sa.​gov.​au

Emer­gency contacts:

Med­ical, fire (includ­ing bush­fire) and police emer­gency sit­u­a­tions
Phone: Triple Zero (000)

Police Assis­tance
Phone: 131 444 for non-urgent police assistance

Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice SA – After-hours duty offi­cer
Phone: 0427 556 676

Injured wildlife:

With­in the park
Please con­tact Black Hill Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice Office on (+61) 7133 7300 or the after-hours duty offi­cer on 0427 556 676 (out­side of busi­ness hours).

Out­side of the park
Please con­tact a local wildlife res­cue group

O’Hal­lo­ran Hill Recre­ation Park is locat­ed 16km south of Ade­laide. Access is via Majors Road at Seav­iew Downs.

Pedes­tri­an access points are sit­u­at­ed along Dav­en­port Street, Ridge­field Avenue, Green­field Road and Fowler Street.

The park is also acces­si­ble via the bicy­cle veloway on either side of the South­ern Expressway. 

• Park maps

Assis­tance dogs are per­mit­ted in most pub­lic places and are there­fore wel­come in South Australia’s parks and reserves. Assis­tance dogs must be appro­pri­ate­ly restrained on a lead and remain under your effec­tive con­trol at all times while in a park or reserve.

As per the dogs in parks and reserves pol­i­cy, if the dog is not an accred­it­ed assis­tance dog, they must be trained to assist a per­son with a dis­abil­i­ty to alle­vi­ate that dis­abil­i­ty and meet stan­dards of hygiene and behav­iour appro­pri­ate for a dog in a pub­lic place. How­ev­er, refusal may be giv­en if the per­son with the dis­abil­i­ty is unable to pro­duce evi­dence the dog is an assis­tance dog with the appro­pri­ate training.

Before tak­ing your assis­tance dog into a park that does not nor­mal­ly allow dogs, it is high­ly rec­om­mend­ed that you con­tact us so we can pro­vide you with the lat­est infor­ma­tion on any poten­tial haz­ards with­in spe­cif­ic parks that may affect your dog. Please con­tact the park via the con­tact details pro­vid­ed under the con­tact tab or con­tact the vis­i­tor ser­vice cen­tre via email or on Face­book.

Dogs are wel­come in this park.

Please ensure you:

• Keep your dog under con­trol and on a lead no more than two metres in length.
• Stick to des­ig­nat­ed walk­ing trails.
• Bring dis­pos­able bags to clean up your dog’s fae­ces (please be aware there are no bins in nation­al parks).

Dis­cov­er oth­er parks you can walk your dog in on our find a park tool or read 12 dog-friend­ly walks in Ade­laide Parks by Good Liv­ing for inspiration.

There are no facil­i­ties in the park. Please ensure you car­ry suf­fi­cient water, food and sup­plies for your entire vis­it. It is also a good idea to let a respon­si­ble per­son know of your intend­ed move­ments and when you expect to return.

• Explore what oth­er nature and out­door activ­i­ties are avail­able in this area on the South Aus­tralia Tourism website. 

• Mobile phone cov­er­age is good in most areas of the park.

• Parks man­age­ment plans
• Trails SA
• SA Marine Parks

• Impor­tant: Col­lec­tion of fire­wood with­in Nation­al Parks is pro­hib­it­ed. Dead wood plays a vital role in pro­vid­ing shel­ter for ani­mals and adding nutri­ents to the soil.

Plants

Near­ly the entire veg­e­ta­tion of the park has been cleared in the past and very lit­tle nat­ur­al veg­e­ta­tion remains.

Impor­tant stands of Grey Box euca­lypts are found through­out the park and include veg­e­ta­tion com­mu­ni­ties which are poor­ly rep­re­sent­ed through­out the Ade­laide hills.

Oth­er species include:

• Gold­en Wattle
• Bull Oak
• Melaleu­ca species
• Gre­vil­lea and Hakea
• Riv­er red gum.

Var­i­ous organ­i­sa­tions and vol­un­teers have under­tak­en tree plant­i­ng, enabling the area to devel­op into an impor­tant and attrac­tive urban bush­land resource. 

Ani­mals

As the reveg­e­ta­tion of the park con­tin­ues and matures, more species of wood­land and grass­land birds are being record­ed. Many species of rep­tiles thrive in the open grass­lands of O’Hal­lo­ran Hill Recre­ation Park. There is a small pop­u­la­tion of west­ern grey kan­ga­roos that call O’Hal­lo­ran Hill home. There is also the occa­sion­al koala pass­ing through the area. 

Flo­ra and fau­na species lists

To down­load flo­ra (plants) and fau­na (ani­mals) species lists for this park, use the ​‘Cre­ate Sim­ple Species List’ tab under ​‘Flo­ra Tools’ or ​‘Fau­na Tools’ in NatureMaps.

Abo­rig­i­nal peo­ples have occu­pied, enjoyed and man­aged the lands and waters of this State for thou­sands of gen­er­a­tions. For Abo­rig­i­nal first nations, cre­ation ances­tors laid down the laws of the Coun­try and bestowed a range of cus­tom­ary rights and oblig­a­tions to the many Abo­rig­i­nal Nations across our state. 

There are many places across the State that have great spir­i­tu­al sig­nif­i­cance to Abo­rig­i­nal first nations. At some of these places Abo­rig­i­nal cul­tur­al pro­to­cols, such as restrict­ed access, are pro­mot­ed and vis­i­tors are asked to respect the wish­es of Tra­di­tion­al Owners.

In places where pro­to­cols are not pro­mot­ed vis­i­tors are asked to show respect by not touch­ing or remov­ing any­thing, and make sure you take all your rub­bish with you when you leave.

Abo­rig­i­nal peo­ples con­tin­ue to play an active role in car­ing for their Coun­try, includ­ing in parks across South Australia. 

• DEW Park management
• DEW Abo­rig­i­nal partnerships

The park is locat­ed just south of the Eden fault line. Under­ly­ing rock for­ma­tions are from the Pre­cam­bri­an Umber­atana Group.

A blue­stone quar­ry near South Road is still vis­i­ble and was used for many of the old struc­tures in the city of Ade­laide. Both north-west and north-east sec­tions of the park are char­ac­terised by deeply divid­ed gul­lies with steep side slopes.

Near­ly 90% of the land was cleared in the ear­ly days for graz­ing and crop­ping. The ruins locat­ed in the south-east cor­ner are the remains of a large Pea Farm built in the late 1800’s. The farm lat­er sup­plied the US Army forces with peas dur­ing WW2.