Parks and Gardens in South Albury, NSW

Finding a park or garden in South Albury

Public gardens, riverside reserves, playgrounds and picnic grounds, most of them council run rather than managed by a state agency. Albury Botanic Gardens has been going since 1877 across four hectares, and the Wagga Wagga gardens carry a walk through aviary and a miniature railway on Willans Hill. Entry is almost always free. Shade is the scarce thing in January, so mornings beat afternoons, and barbecue and toilet availability varies more than the listings suggest.

South Albury sits between the railway and the Murray flats, which is why it carries most of the light industry in town alongside its houses. Young Street and the streets off it hold workshops, wholesalers and the takeaway trade that feeds them. Because much of it is on the floodplain behind the levee, drainage, slab work and flood related repairs come up here more than anywhere else in Albury.

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