Whether walking or cycling through grassland and woodland, surveying the city skyline from expansive hilltops, kite flying by day or star gazing by night, visitors will find much to enjoy in Royal Park.

Maintained as native bushland, Royal Park contains interesting remnants of the area’s indigenous vegetation, with an abundance of eucalyptus and casuarina trees.

Special features include:

• Melbourne Zoo (public transport number 55 tram or the Upfield trainline to the Royal Park station)
• three tennis clubs
• the Capital City cycling trail
• the Royal Park public Golf Course
• the State Hockey and Netball Centre
• twelve sports grounds for soccer, cricket, lacrosse and football
• the Burke and Wills memorial cairn that marks their departure point
• the terminus of the horsedrawn trams that linked the city with the Melbourne Zoo
• remnant vegetation sites and replanting trials of native grasses (Themeda triandra)
• Urban Camp with its original building a remnant of an army base from World War II;
• recently restored Walmsley House, one of the oldest buildings in Victoria, transported from England circa 1856
• a site maintained as protected habitat for the White's Skink, a reptile species now rarely found so close to the city
• Australian Native Garden in the southern area of the park with a pond and native flora in an ornamental garden setting
• Trin Warren Tam-boore, a recycling wetland adjacent to Oak Street with abundant birdlife on the ponds, a parking area, picnic tables and toilets.