Blackwood Forest Recreation Park

Blackwood Forest Recreation Park is a 20-hectare protected bushland reserve in Hawthorndene within the City of Mitcham, about 14 kilometres southeast of Adelaide, South Australia. Proclaimed as a recreation park to conserve remnant stringybark and grey box woodland of the Adelaide Hills, it preserves a former forestry plantation area. The park offers natural walking trails through native forest and is valued for biodiversity conservation, birdlife and low-impact nature recreation close to suburbia.

Visitors can expect a quiet, undeveloped native forest reserve with unsealed walking trails winding through messmate stringybark, grey box and native understorey. The setting is natural bushland surrounded by suburban Hawthorndene and Glenalta, with no built visitor centre or picnic infrastructure. Exploration is on foot along informal trails suitable for short walks, birdwatching and nature photography, with information signage at entry points and a largely natural, shaded environment.