Bold Park

Join the Friends of Bold Park Bushland volunteer guides on a free 1.5 hour guided walk exploring the flora and fauna of the bushland as it cools down in the evening 👣

Meet your guide at the WA Ecology Centre carpark and don't forget your torch! Bookings are not required.

🌿 6.30pm, Thursday 22 January
🌿 6.30pm, Tuesday 27 January
🌿 6pm, Thursday 19 February
🌿 6pm, Tuesday 24 February

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The 2026 Westbridge Funds Road National Championships are this week! 🚴 🎉

Road closures around Bold Park will be in place from 7.30am - 7pm on Wednesday 7 January, and 7.30am - 4.30pm on Thursday 8 January. View the full list of road closures on the Westbridge Funds Road Nationals website 👉 https://roadnationals.org.au/the-event/road-closures

We encourage all visitors and spectators to choose public transport for a stress-free travel option. Visit the Transperth website to plan your journey.

Let's ride! 🏆

Visitor Alert ⚠️ Total Fire Ban & Extreme Fire Danger Rating 🔥 Christmas Day ⚠️

Phew, it's going to be a hot one! Due to fire danger warnings, bushland areas will be CLOSED in Bold Park tomorrow, 25 December, for visitor safety. We apologise if this affects your plans and wish you a safe and merry Christmas.

Happy International Volunteer Day! 🙌

Today and every day we recognise and appreciate all the work done by volunteers across Kings Park and Botanic Garden and Bold Park.

Did you know that last financial year, we had over 440 volunteers, contributing over 31,000 hours of service? 😮

To celebrate their efforts, on Tuesday we hosted a Christmas party for our extraordinary volunteers, with a 'White Diamond' theme in honour of the commemorative plant released earlier this year for the 60th anniversary of the WA Botanic Garden.

Congratulations to our volunteers who celebrated milestone years of service, including 10, 15, 20, 25 and some even reaching 30 years of service!

BGPA would like to thank all the volunteers who dedicate their time and energy towards making Kings Park and Bold Park such great places to be. 🌱 We couldn't do it without you!

📷 C Campbell

This year's wet winter in Perth (Boorloo) has meant an explosion of w**ds, not just in home gardens, but in urban bushlands too! 🌿

Invasive w**ds like Perennial veldt grass (Ehrharta calycina) are a major threat to these urban bushlands. They outcompete native species, reduce species diversity in remanent bushland, and can potentially fuel intense bushfires in urban environments.

At Kings Park Science, our fire ecology team is tackling this problem head-on. By studying how w**ds, native vegetation, and fire interact, we aim to inform effective management strategies that support the return of native flora and stop w**ds from taking over again.

Every spring at Bold Park, researchers survey plots where different fire and w**d control treatments are being trialed. Researchers are seeing clear evidence that successful w**d management after fire (top) improves native plant diversity and reduces fire risk compared to leaving w**ds unmanaged (bottom).

This decade-long project is about more than w**ds; it’s about safeguarding native biodiversity and making our urban bushlands more resilient as climate change brings more extreme weather events.

📷 Kings Park Science researchers monitoring vegetation at Bold Park, comparing areas with active w**d control (top) versus no w**d control (bottom).

Photo credit: E Au

Learn how our native plants are adapted to survive fire with the Friends of Bold Park Bushland Inc volunteer guides 👣

This free guided walk explores the Balga Walk Trail that traverses the site of a past bushfire in 2012 🔥

📆 2, 13 & 17 August
🕘 10am-11.30am
📍 Wollaston Road entry, Bold Park
🎟️ FREE
👉 https://bit.ly/4oatIld

It's Makuru! 🌧️

The Noongar season of Makuru brings colder weather and rainier days, but with the winter wet comes flushes of green growth 🍃

Join the Friends of Bold Park Bushland Inc on a guided walk exploring the effects of the seasonal change on the bushland's plants, animals and fungi.

📆 7, 15, 18 & 28 June
🕘 9am-10.30am
📍 Meet at Camel Lake car park
🎟️ FREE
👉 https://bit.ly/4jM2mzm

A long weekend ahead in Perth's mild winter? Sounds like the perfect time for a bushwalk!

Join the Friends of Bold Park Bushland Inc on a guided walk through Bold Park that celebrates some of the amazing flora and fauna unique to our state.

📆 Monday 2 June (WA Day public holiday)
🕘 9am-10.30am
📍 Meet at Tuart car park
🎟️ FREE
👉 https://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/bold-park/events/wa-day-adventure-bold-park

📷 E Denham

Congratulations to the Friends of Bold Park Bushland Inc who last night were awarded the Town of Cambridge Community Service Organisation of the Year award.

The recent volunteer team have gone above and beyond to expand their presence, all while maintaining their incredible conservation and restoration efforts on the ground in Bold Park.

A very well deserved accolade!

📷 President Steve Lofthouse with the award

While Bold Park is now an important patch of remnant early bushland, the land it sits on has an industrial past.

Join the Friends of Bold Park Bushland Inc on a guided walk exploring the fascinating history of Bold Park and the surrounding area, which has been used for everything from quarrying limestone to watering camels.

📆 Saturday 17 & Tuesday 27 May
🕘 9am-10.30am
📍 Meet at Tuart car park
🎟️ FREE
👉 https://bit.ly/3GGfYO1

Some mums love breakfast in bed, others love a walk in the great outdoors ☀️ 🚶

So why not invite mum to a free guided walk this Sunday with the Friends of Bold Park Bushland Inc exploring the flora and fauna of Bold Park?

📆 Sunday 11 May (Mother's Day!)
🕘 9am-10.30am
📍 Meet at Tuart car park
🎟️ FREE
👉 https://bit.ly/4iPH2re

📷 Jason Thomas