Best Parks in Bendigo: Rosalind Park, Eaglehawk Reservoir and the Goldfields Trails

Bendigo has a strong public park network that reflects its origins as a prosperous Victorian goldfields city, with formal heritage parks in the CBD complemented by creek corridors and the broader natural landscape of the central Victorian goldfields. Rosalind Park on Pall Mall adjacent to the Bendigo Art Gallery is a 17-hectare heritage park at the heart of the city with a fernery, conservatory, peacocks, a sundial and fountain and connecting walking paths through a mature-treed landscape that forms the civic green heart of central Bendigo. The Bendigo Creek corridor through the city provides a linear park and shared-use path that connects suburbs from Huntly in the north through the city centre to Epsom in the south. The Bendigo Goldfields Walk is a 16 km circuit trail through the former goldfields landscape north of the city, passing engine house ruins and mullock heaps that tell the story of the 1850s gold rush in a landscape still shaped by its mining past. Eaglehawk Reservoir Reserve north of the city has a heritage water supply infrastructure in a natural bushland setting. The Whipstick State Park north of Bendigo has grey box woodland with significant orchid populations in spring. The Mount Alexander Regional Park south of Castlemaine is accessible for day trips and has excellent walking with mountain summit views.