Local parks

As well as the private gardens throughout the region, Toowoomba’s parks bloom with bright colour and magnificent foliage

With live music and a host of special events on offer, visitors will love the magical appearance of the many gorgeous parks throughout Toowoomba and its surrounds. Be sure to drop in and appreciate the incredible displays created by our region’s dedicated gardeners.

Boyce Gardens

The sensational Boyce Gardens Estate offers visitors six incredible hectares of sprawling parkland, forest and garden space in Range St, Mount Lofty.

Starting from humble beginnings as a private garden for Leslie and Margaret Boyce (owners of the Toowoomba Foundry), the Boyces gave the estate to the University of Queensland in trust in May 1969.

Now heritage-listed, the gardens offer visitors a relaxing, tranquil environment among more than 100 species of trees, shrubs and vines, with 25 different ferns also recorded.

Newtown Park – Queensland State Rose Garden

So much more than just another ‘green space’ in the Garden City, Newtown Park is a living slice of history, covering a delightful 12 hectares with the popular rose garden featuring around 2000 rose varieties.

The gardens began with multiple plantings of Hybrid Tea and Floribunda roses, dedicating special colours to individual beds and has literally grown to be one of the most impressive collections in the state.

It can by accessed via any of the bordering streets – Taylor, Holberton, Pottinger or Tor.

Laurel Bank Park

As one of Toowoomba’s oldest and most endearing parks, Laurel Bank Park provides visitors a beautiful setting of lawns and gardens perfectly complemented by mature trees, barbecues and picnic areas.

With its ‘all-season’ topiary, scented gardens and maple and peach walks, the park explodes in spring offering an absorbing collection of vivid displays.

Parking is available in Herries and Hill streets and there is limited off-street parking via Hill St.

Picnic Point

Perhaps Toowoomba’s most recognised and visited parkland, the Picnic Point area has been wowing visitors for more than a century.

Set high on the crest of the Great Dividing Range, the lookout area provides sweeping panoramic views across the Lockyer Valley and, of course, iconic Table Top Mountain.

Picnic Point can be accessed via Tourist Drive.

Queens Park

Queens Park brings together our gardening heritage and super-charges it with the Heritage Bank Festival of Food and Wine.

Set across more than 25 picturesque hectares, Queens Park is also home to the city’s Botanic Gardens, an animated parkland draw-card that is abuzz with visitors from across the world during Carnival.

Peacehaven Botanical Park – Highfields

A popular gathering place for Highfields residents and visitors alike, Peacehaven Botanical Park is set on 4.7 hectares and is the ideal spot to catch the myriad of colours that come with the setting sun as you look out across the incredible vista of Gowrie Junction and Bunya Mountains.

The park is located off Kuhls Road.

Spring Bluff

Whether you travel by private car or jump aboard one of the organised Carnival train journeys down to this picturesque historical stations, Spring Bluff is not to be missed.

The railway station’s gardens have long been celebrated for their vibrant mix of petunias, snapdragons, poppies and many more annuals combining to create a colourful canvas to welcome visitors.